Assertion: deacon | /r/CapableOf | perform all the pastoral duties
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text: And if, in practice, scarcely more pains are employed in raising the minds of candidates for the office of Priesthood in our Church to a sense of the importance of their office, than has been used in preparing them for the office of Deacons, the reason is evident: the Deacon has already performed all the Pastoral duties, whilst acting as the Curate of a parish, and to speak to him now of the importance of duties with which he has been already entrusted, would be out of place.