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The Daily Advertiser - www.theadvertiser.com - Lafayette, LA
Deaf and deaf-blind Roman Catholics in Acadiana will have a Lenten mission of their own again this year, thanks to a deaf deacon from Rochester, N.Y.
Deacon Patrick Graybill, a renowned deaf minister, is scheduled to present Hunger for God at 9:30 a.m. March 11 at the Deaf Action Center. It is free and open to the public.
The Lent mission will focus on the difference between total fulfillment and instant gratification of that hunger, Graybill said. The challenge, he said, will not be how to present his message.
Rather, the deacon, who grew up deaf, said in an e-mail interview he feels challenged to present all the stories and information he intends to impart in a one-day mission.
"In a word, I understand where the deaf and the deaf-blind come from," said Graybill, who preaches in American Sign Language. "We have experiences growing up as the deaf within the wide world."
Graybill is a permanent deacon at Emmanuel Church of the Deaf in Rochester, N.Y.
In 1963, Graybill earned a bachelor's degree in English from Gallaudet University, a college for the deaf and hearing impaired in Washington. He earned a master's degree in education a year later.
Graybill served as visiting associate professor in the National Technical Institute of the Deaf Creative and Cultural Studies Center in Rochester before he retired in spring 2006.
Deaf ministry in the Lafayette Roman Catholic Diocese dates back to the 1950s. The diocese opened its Deaf Action Center in 1981. Deaf and deaf-blind Catholics can attend weekly Mass and other religious services at the center, located in Village du Lac just off Carmel Avenue.
Myra Mouton, center director, said she coordinates an annual Lent mission at the center. Presenters, like Graybill, are typically deaf priests, deacons and nuns from across the United States. An interpreter will be on hand at the mission to translate American Sign Language into English.
"We hope to attract other deaf people from the community to come and experience this mission," Mouton said.
Deaf and deaf-blind Roman Catholics in Acadiana will have a Lenten mission of their own again this year, thanks to a deaf deacon from Rochester, N.Y.
Deacon Patrick Graybill, a renowned deaf minister, is scheduled to present Hunger for God at 9:30 a.m. March 11 at the Deaf Action Center. It is free and open to the public.
The Lent mission will focus on the difference between total fulfillment and instant gratification of that hunger, Graybill said. The challenge, he said, will not be how to present his message.
Rather, the deacon, who grew up deaf, said in an e-mail interview he feels challenged to present all the stories and information he intends to impart in a one-day mission.
"In a word, I understand where the deaf and the deaf-blind come from," said Graybill, who preaches in American Sign Language. "We have experiences growing up as the deaf within the wide world."
Graybill is a permanent deacon at Emmanuel Church of the Deaf in Rochester, N.Y.
In 1963, Graybill earned a bachelor's degree in English from Gallaudet University, a college for the deaf and hearing impaired in Washington. He earned a master's degree in education a year later.
Graybill served as visiting associate professor in the National Technical Institute of the Deaf Creative and Cultural Studies Center in Rochester before he retired in spring 2006.
Deaf ministry in the Lafayette Roman Catholic Diocese dates back to the 1950s. The diocese opened its Deaf Action Center in 1981. Deaf and deaf-blind Catholics can attend weekly Mass and other religious services at the center, located in Village du Lac just off Carmel Avenue.
Myra Mouton, center director, said she coordinates an annual Lent mission at the center. Presenters, like Graybill, are typically deaf priests, deacons and nuns from across the United States. An interpreter will be on hand at the mission to translate American Sign Language into English.
"We hope to attract other deaf people from the community to come and experience this mission," Mouton said.