From the Deacon's Desk

by Deacon Rick Wagner

Deacon Rick Wagner was ordained on June 23, 2012 and currently serves his home parish of St. Pius X in Indianapolis, IN. He has been married to his wife, Carol, for 42 years and they have 4 children and 10 grandchildren.

Deacon Rick has been involved in Catholic education for 40+ years and currently serves as President of St. Theodore Guerin High School, a workshop instructor for Saint Meinrad Seminary and School of Theology, and a retreat leader.

He has also authored three books: Remember What’s Important (2011), Fifty Homilies from the Deacon’s Desk (2016), and Fifty MORE Homilies from the Deacon’s Desk (2024).

Have a question or comment for Deacon Rick? Feel free to contact him at rwagner@spxparish.org

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Listen to My Voice

Each day, I reflect upon a word or a phrase inspired by the readings of the day. I encourage you to do the same and perhaps incorporate that word or phrase into your daily prayer.

Listen to my voice; then I will be your God and you shall be my people. (Jeremiah 7:23)

LISTEN TO MY VOICE: We have many voices in our head, battling for our attention – the voice of temptation, the voice of desire, the voice of selfishness, the voice of ME-ness. Always struggling to become a priority is the voice of God.

We are mere human beings and the chances of us completely silencing the other voices are not good. However, the voices battling in our head are in need of fine-tuning. Our prayer then, especially during the Lenten season, should be to amplify the voice of God.

The voice of God – the message of God – is unchanging, but we need to turn up the volume so it doesn’t get lost in noise of the other voices.

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