Deacon Victor V. Kubrak was born many years ago (in 1950) in Hamilton, Ontario.
He has been a parishioner at St. Gabriel since 1987 and has served as a lector, Extra-ordinary Minister of Communion and as an auditor for the Hamilton Marriage Tribunal office. He is married to his beautiful wife Christine and have one daughter Alexandra (Lexie) who is the joy of their lives.
On June 10th of 2006 he was ordained by Bishop Anthony Tonnos, to the Holy Order of Deacon and has been assigned to St. Gabriel’s Church to assist the pastor as Deacon of the Word in proclaiming the Gospel and as Deacon of the Mass to assist the pastor or presiding priest at the Altar of Sacrifice. He ministers to the residents of a nursing home in Burlington.
Deacon Victor Kubrak
What is a deacon?
… deacons, upon whom hands are imposed “not unto the priesthood, but unto a ministry of service.” For strengthened by sacramental grace, in communion with the bishop and his group of priests they serve in the diaconate of the liturgy, of the word, and of charity to the people of God. It is the duty of the deacon, according as it shall have been assigned to him by competent authority, to administer baptism solemnly, to be custodian and dispenser of the Eucharist, to assist at and bless marriages in the name of the Church, to bring Viaticum to the dying, to read the Sacred Scripture to the faithful, to instruct and exhort the people, to preside over the worship and prayer of the faithful, to administer sacramentals, to officiate at funeral and burial services. Dedicated to duties of charity and of administration, let deacons be mindful of the admonition of Blessed Polycarp: “Be merciful, diligent, walking according to the truth of the Lord, who became the servant of all.”
Lumen Gentium (Dogmatic Constitution on the Church) (§ 29)
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