Praying the Daily Office is the practice of praying for the world in unity with the whole Church at set times a day. Basileians are Global Pilgrims who, in our primary discipline of journeying to the Mountain, integrate the practice of praying the Daily Office with Eucharistic worship and contemplative prayer.
Also see Global Pilgrims, Journey, and Lectionary.
A Deacon is an ecclesiastical office entered into by ordination, which is a Rite of Incorporation performed in Basileia after the Candidate for ordination has completed the Novitiate. In a more general sense, all believers are called to be diaconal.
Also see Deacon Council, and Diaconal.
A Deacon Council of a Basileia jurisdiction administers the diaconal functions of member formation in general and of the Catechumenate and of the Novitiate in particular. Deacon Councils complement the roles of Presbyter Councils and Missional Councils in providing leadership to one of the three major areas of the life of Basileia, namely, the area of membership formation. Until ordained Deacons are raised up to lead Deacon Councils, Presbyters are authorized to do so, but then after Deacons are appointed, these Presbyters join with other baptized members in diaconal service to these Deacon Councils. Basileia has the following six types of Deacon Councils:
Also see Deacon, Diaconal, Missional Council, and Presbyter Council.
The delegation of authority is the second of the five elements in the covenantal structure of authority – source, delegation, standard, transfer and expansion. Covenantally speaking, the delegation of authority answers the basic question asked by all communities: “Who is authorized to do what?” Practically, Basileians cultivate a commitment to serve as delegated authorities in 1) our mode of worship in the second movement of the Liturgy, and 2) our way of life marked by the three practices of our primary discipline of assemble – belong in order to believe, cultivate colonies of heaven on earth and create thing places.
Also see Assemble.
Destiny is the ultimate purpose to which individual humans and angels, collectives and all creation is destined for, namely to be brought by the Father into unity with Christ. While individual humans and angels and collectives can resist their destiny and even seek to subvert the destiny of others, ultimately God’s purpose prevails. As the Lord said to Paul, after he had resisted God’s call for some time, “It is hard for you to kick against the goads” (Act 9:5). Jesus says that by virtue of the kind of chivalric death He would die on the cross that He would succeed at drawing or more literally, “dragging,” all to Himself (Jn. 12:32). At times this “dragging” comes in the form of compelling circumstances as when the Prodigal Son, after having wasted his inheritance and was reduced to life with the pigs in a pigpen, decides to stop resisting and fleeing from his destiny and returns home to his father. Another picture of destiny subverted by evil but brought back on track by Christ is represented in the Icon of the Resurrection in which Jesus descends even into Hades to raise Adam and all humanity out of death. Thus Jesus’ statement, “I will build My Church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it” (Matt. 16:18) is a promise that the destiny of the Father for all shall be fulfilled in and through the Church. As Joseph learned through the ordeal of betrayal by his own brothers, what they meant for evil, God turned for God in order to save multitudes (Gen. 50:20). This understanding of destiny is foundational to why our Basileian charism is one of an authentic and relaxed spirituality in regards to our own individual journeys of transformation as well as the journeys of others. Such a feel for destiny encourages us to be ministerial rather than mediatorial. We rest in confidence knowing that “For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive” (1 Cor. 15:22).
Also see Icon of the Resurrection, Restoration, and Theosis.
Diaconal means relating to a deacon or to the role of a deacon, which can mean the ecclesiastical office of Deacon, but which can also refer to forms of service provided by all believers in general. In our Basileian way of life, all believers are diaconally called to “serve the Church and the world” with their gifts and resources. All believers, regardless of their particular office in the Church – baptized believer, Deacon, Presbyter or Consecrated Abbot – are called to diaconal service. In Basileia this means specifically to diaconal service with a missional initiative and/or with our respective Presbyter Councils, Deacon Councils and Missional Councils. All Basileians, not just some, are called to serve diaconally in these ways, regardless of their particular office. As Jesus said to His disciples as they disputed among themselves who was the greatest, “But I am among you as the one who serves or literally, as one who “deacons” (Lk. 22:27). The word “serves” in Luke 22:27 is a translation of διακονῶν (diaconon). Thus since Jesus is among us as one who deacons, how much more should we be diaconal in relation to all?
Also see Deacon, Priesthood of All Believers, and Serve the Church and the World.
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