O Diácono Permanente: Servidor da Mesa da Palavra e mensageiro do Evangelho de Cristo

Abstract

In this article, which stems from texts written by the II Vatican Council and reaches to post-council magisterial documents, is shown the importance of the munus docendi ecclesiae conferred to the permanent deacon upon his sacramental ordination. It concludes that the diaconal role in the field of evangelisation has not been well used, encouraged or valued in the Church and in society. Being thus, the deacons should assume their share of the service that behooves them as messengers of the Word, since, there are certainly more tasks in the areas of preaching and teaching than they currently carry out, since all that refers to the preaching of the Gospel, to catechesis, to spreading the Bible and its explanation to the people was ordinarily conferred upon them.