{"id":27924,"date":"2021-11-18T14:25:26","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T19:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/holyfamilysparta-org.azurewebsites.net\/?p=27924"},"modified":"2021-11-18T15:38:51","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T20:38:51","slug":"holy-family-welcomes-a-new-parish-deacon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.holyfamilysparta.org\/?p=27924","title":{"rendered":"Holy Family Welcomes a New Parish Deacon!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Holy Family Parish is entering a new phase!\u00a0 Our staff is going to increase with the appointment of Greg Sokolowski as our parish deacon.\u00a0 He is appointed immediately and will be ordained a permanent deacon on January 8, 2022.\u00a0 His personal introduction follows below:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">I will be ordained in January and have been assigned to be the Deacon for this parish. I have been married to my wonderful wife Cheryl for 41 years. We have four adult children who are all married and have spouses who I also consider them as my own children. They have given us 17 beautiful grandchildren. We have been a member of Assumption Parish, Belmont for 30 years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">My first love is God, then my family and my church. I have enjoyed being a Catechist for Old and New Testament, presenter at Diocesan catechetical conferences on Catholic Evangelization, led Bible Studies, Family to Family Catechesis called <i>Home Based Community<\/i>, leader in the RCIA program, speaker at Confirmation Retreats, Core Team Leader and MC for a Men&#8217;s Ministry called <i>That Man Is You,<\/i> led Devotional Prayer Services such as Stations of the Cross, and facilitated Marriage Prep. I\u2019ve volunteered in the Jail &amp; Prison Ministry, Hospital Ministry, Home for Veterans, and have had the privilege to be an Extraordinary Minister of the Eucharistic and Lector proclaiming the Word of God.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">I went to <i>The Catholic Evangelization Training Center<\/i> in Northglenn, CO., to <i>The Great Lakes Institute for Biblical Studies<\/i>, to <i>Aquinas College<\/i>, the <i>Called to Serve<\/i> Program, and <i>Notre Dame<\/i> for the Diaconate.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">I look forward to spending time in prayer and fellowship with you.\u00a0 <i>~ Greg Sokolowski<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Below Greg meets our staff and Laurissa Zimmer and Dolores Woltanski<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/holyfamilysparta-org.azurewebsites.net\/?attachment_id=27954\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-27954\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-27954 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/holyfamilysparta-org.azurewebsites.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Greg-and-Staff-300x242.png\" alt=\"Greg and Staff\" width=\"300\" height=\"242\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Greg-and-Staff-300x242.png 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Greg-and-Staff-150x121.png 150w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Greg-and-Staff.png 507w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/holyfamilysparta-org.azurewebsites.net\/?attachment_id=27944\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-27944\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-27944 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/holyfamilysparta-org.azurewebsites.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Greg-and-L-D-300x226.png\" alt=\"Greg and L-D\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Greg-and-L-D-300x226.png 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Greg-and-L-D-150x113.png 150w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Greg-and-L-D.png 540w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holy Family Parish is entering a new phase!\u00a0 Our staff is going to increase with the appointment of Greg Sokolowski as our parish deacon.\u00a0 He is appointed immediately and will be ordained a permanent deacon on January 8, 2022.\u00a0 His personal introduction follows below: I will be ordained in January and have been assigned to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holyfamilysparta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27924"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holyfamilysparta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holyfamilysparta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holyfamilysparta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holyfamilysparta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27924"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.holyfamilysparta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27964,"href":"https:\/\/www.holyfamilysparta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27924\/revisions\/27964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holyfamilysparta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holyfamilysparta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holyfamilysparta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}