Posted November 5, 2020

Permanent deacons and their wives in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia gathered Saturday, Oct. 31 for a workshop and Mass celebrated by Archbishop Nelson Pérez, including a question-and-answer session with him, at St. Helena Church in Blue Bell, Montgomery County. (Photos by Sarah Webb)

  • Archbishop Pérez chats with a permanent deacon and his wife.

  • Archbishop Perez (center), along with Msgr. Gregory Fairbanks (left), dean of the School of Diaconal Formation at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary, and Deacon Michael Pascarella, associate to the Vicar for Clergy, answers a question from a guest at the gathering.

  • The archbishop speaks with participants at St. Helena Church, Blue Bell.

  • Sister Kathleen Schipani, I.H.M. (foreground), interprets the Mass in American Sign Language.