Why don't religious orders have permanent deacons?

[TimothyH]

The priest vests as a priest and serves as a concelebrating priest…he does not serve as a deacon…pre Vatican II priests would vest a deacons and serve as deacons…this if no longer permitted.

The point is that every priest is also a deacon. There is no such thing as a Mass without a deacon because every priest is a deacon.

The deacon has a threefold ministry in the Church - word, liturgy and service. When a deacon is ordained, he becomes the ordinary minister of the Gospel. The deacon is the proclaimer of the Gospel in the Church.

When a priest steps to the ambo and proclaims the Gospel, no matter how he is vested, he is fulfilling the ministry he recieved as proclaimer of the word when he was ordained as a deacon.

It doesn’t matter how the priest is vested - Word, Liturgy and Service are the ministries he recieved when he was ordained a deacon. Most priests will tell you that most of their time is spent in diacanoia - service - rather than sacradotal functions.

-Tim-

 

[Brendan]

UncleBill:
I don’t believe this is permitted since VII.

Actually, when a priest reads the Gospel, he does so as a Deacon.

 

[Digitonomy]

Another thread on this question from 4 years ago:

Order deacons

 

[nbhart]

This is a little late to the conversation, but priests may act as deacons in both extraordinary and ordinary forms of the mass. This photo is from the ordinary form during Ash Wednesday from a few years back.

 

[nbhart]

Here is Cardinal Arinze celebrating as deacon.