HOLY ORDER FORM The bishop's specific conservatory prayer asking God for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit and his gifts proper to the ministry to which the candidate is being ordained.
HOLY ORDER MATTER the matter for Holy Orders is the laying on of the bishop's hands with the consecratory prayer.
HOLY ORDER EFFECTS A special relationship to Christ to lead and minister to the Church sacramentally in the place of Christ and a n indelible spiritual mark imprinted on the soul.
HOLY ORDER MINISTER The Diocesan Bishop is allowed to minister Holy Orders. He is also allowed to ordain priests and deacons as he sees fit to serve in his diocese. These priests and deacons vow to be obedient to the diocesan bishop's leadership. A bishop may ordain other bishops only with the permission of the pope.
WHO CAN RECEIVE HOLY ORDERS? A baptized man who has been called for ordination by God. to become a priest (in the Roman Catholic Church) or a bishop, a man must be celibate. Deacons may be married at the time of their ordination if they are not planning on going into the priesthood. A man must not have any impediments, anything that prevents fulfillment of the duties of the priesthood, to ordination.
WHO'S WHO IN MY PARISH The deacons in my parish are Anthony Banno, James Carroll, and Charles Muscarnera. The priests in my parish are Father O'Brian and Father Holtz. The bishop at our parish is Bishop John Barres.
RELIGIOUS LIFE "A religious order priest belongs to a community of men bound together by faith and the vows of poverty, chastity and obedience. Poverty means that they do not own things individually but rather as a group; chastity means that they refrain from sexual activity and do not marry; obedience means that, after appropriate consultation, they do what their superiors ask them to do. It is not necessary to be a priest to be a member of a religious order; those who are not priests are called brothers. The priests and brothers of a religious community may engage in any kind of work for the Church and the good of humanity; they often specialize in certain kinds of work such as education, work with the sick or poor, and service in the foreign missions.
A diocesan priest does not make the solemn vows that religious priests (and religious brothers and sisters) make but he does make promises that are discussed in subsequent questions. Perhaps the most striking difference between him and a religious order priest is that the diocesan priest lives a life more like that of his people: he buys his own clothes and car, he pays taxes, he may own personal property. That is why a diocesan priest is sometimes called a secular priest (from the Latin saeculum, a word that means roughly “this world of time and space in which we live”.
HOLY ORDER RITE First there are the Bishops Bishops receive the fullness of the sacrament. They act in the name and person of Christ and is the Shepherd and Spouse of the Church. The symbols are the mitre and the crozier, signifying his role as Shepherd, and the ring, illustrating that he is the Spouse of the Church, and his chair showing his teaching authority in the Church.
Second are the Priests Priests are anointed with the Spirit and act in the name and person of Christ. The symbols are the paten and the chalicewhich illustrates their fulfillment of their ministry especially at Eucharist. Priests are responsible for preaching the Gospel, celebrating liturgy and teaching and guiding the faithful.
Third are theDeacons Deacons are ordained to the ministry of service. He is involved as the ordinary minister at the Altar, along with works of charity and the breaking of the Word of God. A deacon may be married or a bachelor. Deacons are symbolized by the stole worn over the left shoulder.