Permanent Deaconate

[drewmeister2]

In the Latin Rite, does the Permanent Deaconate really exist much?  I know it does in the Eastern Rite, and now in the Novus Ordo, but does it exist in the TLM?

 

Thanks.

[Credo]

       I think so, after all, some High Masses call for a deacon.

[Kephapaulos]

In the Latin Rite, does the Permanent Deaconate really exist much?  I know it does in the Eastern Rite, and now in the Novus Ordo, but does it exist in the TLM?

 

Thanks.

I have not heard of the diaconate being permanent in the recent times of the TLM of the Latin church. There probably used to be a sort of permanent diaconate since St. Francis of Assisi was a deacon and never became a priest.

[gladius_veritatis]

It is not normal to become a deacon, and remain so, within the Latin rite.  This is not to say it has not happened, but it is normally not seen as a vocation in itself.