How To Use Priesthood In A Sentence

Sir Stuart expected 240 men to join the priesthood, plus around 220 women.
Esler, a practising Catholic, says: " People aren't entering the priesthood.
There has been a decline in the number of people joining the priesthood.
Our congregations as a gathered priesthood meet for the purpose of being equipped for mission in the world.
He left a promising military career behind to join the priesthood.

This pope also permitted the conferring of priesthood and deaconship on the Saturdays of ember week -- these were formerly given only at Easter. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
The other half of the provincial priesthood was his, with, in addition, all the priesthood of the great cities such as Keijo, Fusan, Songdo, Pyen-Yang, Chenampo, and Chapter 15
Either we must be cleansed from the pollutions of sin or we shall, as polluted, be put from that priesthood, Ezra ii. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
When the call to religious life and priesthood made itself known to me, I moved directly to a Roman Catholic seminary.
This year eight men will be ordained in Ireland to the priesthood of the Catholic Church.
As it sways precariously beneath the five-tonner, a small priesthood of caretakers will guide it to a washbasin and gently remove the ravages of worship and travel. Roy and His Rock
Freemasonry it refers especially to that east whence an ancient priesthood first disseminated truth to enlighten the world; wherefore the east is masonically called "the place of light. The Symbolism of Freemasonry
Twentieth-cent. developments included women's ordination to the diaconate and the priesthood, making the Anglican church the first episcopal church to take this step.
In the capital of the empire the Taoist priesthood includes: two Tao-lu-sze, superiors, a title corresponding with that of the Buddhists, seng-lu-sze; two Cheng-i, Taoists of right simplicity; two Yen-fa, ritual Taoists; two Che-ling, Taoists of great excellence, thaumaturgus; and two Che-i, Taoists of great probity, an inferior class of priests. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
In 1861, after some hesitation, he was ordained deacon in the Anglican Church but never chose to advance to full priesthood.
Thérèse also bolstered the priesthood, succoring and strengthening God's ministers through prayer and friendship.
He prepared for the priesthood in the Anglican Church at St Stephen's House, gaining a First in Theology.
The position of the church is that ordination to the priesthood makes one a priest forever.
Such societies may therefore employ spies or a priesthood to purify themselves of corrupting influences.
Except to a certain antiquated ideology embraced in biology, which apparently has to be protected in academia by an 'orthodox' priesthood and imposed on society by force of law. An Interview with Elisabet Sahtouris
Canon Richard Phillips celebrated the golden jubilee of his ordination to the priesthood on the 14th June.
The next generation of women, they said, would not face such barriers to the priesthood.
In any event, the sense at the meeting was that the bishops need to focus on putting the Catholic house in order, concentrating on evangelization, catechesis, the Eucharist, and the priesthood.
Most interesting of all, Oxford don JRR Tolkien stayed at the college in the 1940s while his eldest son was studying for the priesthood.
When the dramatic decline in the number of candidates for the priesthood is factored in, the threat to the sacramental mission of the church weighs heavily on today's ordained ministers.
The heron is sacred to the Muses and is related to priesthood.
If a cohen raises a boy as his son, the boy will not have the privileges nor the constraints of the priesthood.
In the absence of church or priesthood, the execution of the project was left to the uncertainties of lay enthusiasts.
Cardinal Manning, Cardinal Manning decided to postpone his ordination from the deaconhood into priesthood for one year, only so that he could go on and abuse other victims. CNN Transcript Jul 16, 2007
With religion bestialized and its management regulated wholly with an idea to the gratification of man's sensuous desires, religious temples, under the supervision of the priesthood, became brothels, in which were openly practiced as part and parcel of religious rites and ceremonies the most wanton profligacy and the most shameless self-abandonment. The God-Idea of the Ancients
Heb .7:24 But He , because He abides forever, has His priesthood unalterable.
It was a place for the very rich, indirectly managed by the priesthood, within the walls of the palace compound.
As then-PC World editor David Bunnell noted a quarter of a century ago, the arrival of the personal computer was a red-letter event in the empowerment of the individual: We could now create, use, store and distribute our own information without having to ask for permission or approval from an information-technology priesthood. Data Caps as the Least Bad Answer
Both very old and very new, the permanent diaconate dates to the New Testament, but later became subsumed as a stepping-stone to the priesthood. As Priests Decline, Deacons Step In
What name is given to sub-deaconship, deaconship and priesthood? Baltimore Catechism No. 3 (of 4)
But the wealthy Egyptian more commonly provided for the future of his Ka by bequeathing a portion of his estate to the priesthood, in prepayment for sepulchral meals in perpetuity. Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers
Garrett's main argument for congregationalism is the priesthood of all believers.
For some time after its foundation, Manly was the only seminary in Australia preparing students for the secular priesthood.
Also during the summer months, one of the Diocesan students for the priesthood came to Lartington on placement.
In an elaborate and impressive ritual Aaron and his sons are instituted to the priesthood.
He had a great respect for the priesthood, and has left many a charming and sympathetic picture of the parish _cure_, such as l'Abbe Janvier in "Le Medecin de Campagne," who acts hand in hand with the good doctor Benassis, as an enlightened benefactor to the poor; or l'Abbe Bonnet, the hero of "Le Cure du Village," whose face had "the impress of faith, an impress giving the stamp of the human greatness which approaches most nearly to divine greatness, and of which the undefinable expression beautifies the most ordinary features. Honore de Balzac, His Life and Writings
Efforts to recruit more men to the priesthood have not been successful.
Some give up - a sure sign that they are not meant for priesthood.
He made the priesthood and exercised a distinguished ministry.
Worldwide, the permanent diaconate has expanded roughly 30 times faster than the priesthood since 2000, according to the Vatican, with much of the growth attributed to the United States. As Priests Decline, Deacons Step In
Christian sacerdotal priesthood participates in the priesthood of Christ and administers sacraments which can actually take away sin, which levitical priests could not.
These were followed by many more vocations to the religious life and to the priesthood.
This was done by the priests, and the church is a part of the antitypical priesthood.
The decision to ordain me to the priesthood was made because they needed a priest for West Point.
This fetishization of asexuality gives way to an imperious and isolated priesthood, an aloof caste of men whose holiness is far too greatly predicated upon the choice not to have sex. Michele Somerville: Sex and the City of God, Part 2: Celibacy and Sexuality in the Catholic Church
(Conducting them on land, by the way, is now "kosher.") "I think this is the beginning of what I call a renewed priestly ministry, a more inclusive priesthood, a more inclusive theology," Rue notes. Greg Archer: Roman Catholic Female Priests Growing in Numbers: An Insider's Perspective
The central administration of the temple, presumably the priesthood, redistributed the produce.
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I am aware that between the second and the fourth centuries various gnostic heresies admitted women to all levels of priesthood.
They included a horde of diversity co-ordinators, community liaison officers, social inclusion officers and suchlike hierarchs of the priesthood of political correctness.
Marriage is a commitment to another person; priesthood is a commitment to a role in the church.
Her celibate, churchly brother was charged with guiding her beloved John into the priesthood.
He considers my idea of priesthood just a fancy.
The vulgar Latin hath it, regnum sacerdotale, to which agreeth the translation of that place, sacerdotium regale, a regal priesthood; 93 as also the institution itself, by which no man might enter into the sanctum sanctorum, that is to say, no man might enquire God's will immediately of God Leviathan
It says that spiritual directors and confessors in seminaries "have the duty to dissuade" any candidates "who show deep-seated homosexual tendencies" from joining the priesthood. 11/23/2005
In 1987 the Church of England first admitted women to the diaconate, but not to the priesthood until 1994.
They go from the chasuble, wide stole, and maniple of his early priesthood to a succession of increasingly simple garments until they arrive at an academic gown.
He had, if not a revulsion towards the pagan priesthood, then a fear of them and their devotion to their heathen religion.
In 1789 François became a seminarist, that is a student in an institution for training candidates for the priesthood.
Apparently the whole idea of human priesthood was proved, once and for ever, to be baseless; human mediation, in every possible form, was vehemently controverted; men were referred back to God as the sole absolver. Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series
Of course, this comes from the rebel psychologist for whom diagnostic psychiatry is an authoritarian priesthood, and ‘insanity’ an institutional dysphemism for ‘minority.’
But the priest is not of the order of the Aaronic priesthood; Christ is understood to be that. (the New Testament word "Priest" is but the linguistic corruption from the Greek word Presbyter, meaning "elder" - which is a direct derivation from the Hebrew Zaqen, also meaning "elder"). Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
The best hope for a cure lies in the open, honest debate that would spring from wholehearted acceptance of the priesthood of all believers.
There is nothing in the essential nature of the priesthood which says that priests must live the lifestyle which is imposed on them.
Thérèse also bolstered the priesthood, succoring and strengthening God's ministers through prayer and friendship.
Rather than dump him out of the priesthood, as happened in other dioceses, Dublin diocese decided to help him responsibly manage his life.
The presbyter, a member of the ‘priesthood in the presbyteral order,’ is teacher, priest and shepherd, leads and unifies the faithful, and shares in the priesthood of bishops.
Currently, at the time of ordination as a deacon, usually a year or so before priesthood; and, before the elimination of the subdiaconate as a major order after Vatican II, as a subdeacon.
Vocations to the priesthood are now almost adequate in some of the major Catholic archdioceses, although in other places numbers continue low.
The most characteristic part of the Siamese social system is the position of the priesthood, commonly called the talapoins.
The presbyter, a member of the ‘priesthood in the presbyteral order,’ is teacher, priest and shepherd, leads and unifies the faithful, and shares in the priesthood of bishops.
The "good [if not liberal, then Protestant at least] critique" is that, while the priesthood of believers certainly fails in articulating and preserving the truth, so does the hierarchy. Fr. Robert Barron on Protestantism, authority, and Cardinal Newman
Fr Heck was a jubilarian in profession and priesthood, the senior member of the Swiss-American Congregation in profession, priesthood and age, and the senior in age of the entire confederation of Benedictine monks throughout the world. CathNews
It has shown itself unable to pass on the faith in its integrity and is inadequate, therefore, in fostering the joyful self-surrender called for in Christian marriage, in consecrated life, in ordained priesthood. Jesuit: Obama is "the most effective spokesperson" for "the spirit of Vatican II"
Instead, the rites of Levitical sacrifice are inaugurated and the priesthood is instituted as a sort of permanent penitential reminder to the people of their sinfulness.
For some time after its foundation, Manly was the only seminary in Australia preparing students for the secular priesthood.
Eddie Panlilio finally bid farewell to priesthood and his clerical ministries as he filed his certificate of candidacy Asian Games-bound Filipino athletes a passionate three-word sendoff storms that left over 1,100 people dead and 1.7 million AFTER rocketing into position as a strong third player in the TV industry, WN.com - Articles related to Arroyo for Congress is a comedy, tragedy -- Bro. Eddie
In short, the presbyteral priesthood was at the center of the sacramental understanding of ministerial order.
Would-be catechists can study for three years, during which time they can explore their vocation for the priesthood.
He is the first prison inmate to become a candidate for ordination to the priesthood in the Episcopal Church.
There is hardly any one here who can understand what they call my caprice of entering the priesthood, and these good people tell me, with rustic candor, that I ought to throw aside the clerical garb; that to be a priest is very well for a poor young man; but that I, who am to be a rich mans heir, should marry, and console the old age of my father by giving him half a dozen handsome and robust grandchildren. March 22d. Part I.—Letters from My Nephew
Dubois left at five o'clock in the morning, in a hunting-dress, for Pautoix, where he found M. de Tressan, who, according to his promise, bestowed on him the deaconship, the archdeaconship, and the priesthood. The Conspirators The Chevalier d'Harmental
It was hardly good enough for a group of students who mostly were destined for the priesthood.
How could they have such an argument with someone who does not believe in religion or in priesthood?
This includes the diaconate, as well as the priesthood.
Rejected by Luther is the idea that some occupations, such as the priesthood or monasticism, are spiritually superior to others, such as parenting.
A. Sub-deaconship, deaconship and priesthood are called major or greater orders, because those who receive them are bound for life to the service of the altar and they cannot return to the service of the world to live as ordinary laymen. Baltimore Catechism No. 3 (of 4)
Allowing for hyberbole and the possibility that the University of Bristol study has inferred a more general opposition to females in the Anglican priesthood from a few anecdotes, it still seems as if there are a fair number of English anglicans whose views on women would let them fit right in with the Taliban. Planet Atheism
She particularly wished that she had his influence with the priesthood of Bel. A TIME OF WAR
O'Brien, whose group favors a female priesthood, said that while he understood the technical distinction of different types of Church crimes, putting the two together was another example of what he called bungled communications. Reuters: Top News
This has shown that Christ's priesthood cannot be understood as either male or female, but as a priesthood of the incarnate Logos of God, who assumed the perfect human nature without the sin.
In that moment he rises above his stupid gianthood, and earnestly warns the Son of Light that all his power and eminence of priesthood, godhood, and kingship must stand or fall with the unbearable cold greatness of the incorruptible law-giver. The Perfect Wagnerite, Commentary on the Ring
He helped many people along his journey before deciding that he wanted to make the priesthood his vocation.
It was the appropriation of certain funds – whether they should be applied towards increasing their seminary, so as to fit it for the proper education of ministers for their church, or whether they should not be applied to some other purpose, and their priesthood be still allowed to spring uncultured from the mass. Sketches and Tales Illustrative of Life in the Backwoods of New Brunswick, North America
First the tonsure, then Minor Orders, then subdeaconship, then deaconship, then priesthood. Baltimore Catechism No. 4 (of 4) An Explanation of the Baltimore Catechism of Christian Doctrine
Her father Alexander had been educated for the priesthood in Rome, but did not proceed to ordination and emigrated to Port Phillip.
The "sacerdotal" or "ministerial" priesthood, which is a manifestation of the hierarchy's Petrine charism of teaching, sanctifying, and governing authority, exists solely to serve and facilitate the Marian charism of all believers. Archive 2006-04-01
Father Gregory prayed to be worthy of his priesthood, then prayed to be able to believe he should pray.
It is true that Jerome endeavoured to enhance the dignity of the priesthood at the expense of the episcopate and to refer the bishop's superiority "rather to ecclesiastical custom than to Divine regulation" (In Tit., i, 5: "Episcopi noverint se magis consuetudine quam dispositionis dominicæ veritate presbyteris esse majores"). The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
The Lutheran priesthood is paid by the state and serves sixty-six churches and chapels.
Then model your worship on the Mosaic tabernacle and priesthood.
The real joy of the priesthood is helping people find personal fulfilment .
Does the historic episcopate include the priesthood and diaconate, which are not mentioned in the Quadrilateral?
Timothy (though not having the name) exercised the power at Ephesus then, which bishops in the modern sense more recently exercised. blameless -- "unexceptionable"; giving no just handle for blame. husband of one wife -- confuting the celibacy of Rome's priesthood. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Before I pass out I'd like your assurance that you're not still thinking of giving up the priesthood. ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
At first they lasted only ten days, but in extending them by degrees to fifteen or twenty days, then to one, two, or three months before each order, the bishops eventually prolonged the stay of their clerics to two or three years between philosophy and the priesthood and there were what were called seminaries d'ordinands and later grands seminaries, when lesser ones were founded. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner
Eadgar's coronation in 973 was postponed until he reached 30, the minimum canonical age for ordination to the priesthood.
Methodists do not believe in the ministerial priesthood; Stanley does.
Diocesan bishops can dispense men from the obligations that go with the diaconate and suspend priests from the exercise of their order for a long or short period, but only the bishop of Rome can expel them from the priesthood.
Thyamis himself, rightful heir to his father's priesthood in Egypt. has had his place usurped by a younger brother.
About half those in training for the priesthood are now women.
Islam does not recognize a sacerdotal priesthood.
Many, perhaps most, seminarians who believe they are being called to priesthood do not have a charism for celibacy - a graced aptitude for consecrated single life.
A diocesan spokesman, however, said neither man was on the track for the priesthood.
Are you resolved, with the help of the Holy Spirit, to discharge without fail the office of priesthood in this presbyteral order as a conscientious fellow worker with the bishops in caring for the Lord's flock? Ordination vows
Being assured that he would resist the decree relative to the nonjuring and seditious priesthood, they sent it to him for the purpose of provoking his resistance, that the citizens might see his lack of cordiality towards the revolution. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria
I do think that sacral aura of science, and its priesthood of scientists, has faded as the ultimate authority in our lives.
Of such Peter says: “ye also, as lively stones, are built up _a spiritual house_, a holy priesthood, to offer up _spiritual sacrifices_ acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.” Amusement: A Force in Christian Training
Nowadays, that is more true than ever, in the Catholic Church and particularly in those ecclesial communities that "ordain" women to the ministry—so much so that, if we did have women's ordination in the two communions that can plausibly claim historical and confessional continuity with the Church of the Apostles, I suspect the demographics would not take terribly long to yield a "priesthood" composed disproportionately of middle-aged and elderly women. Mary and the non-ordination of women
He was born in a Kerry farming community in 1938 and, in his early 20s, he received his vocation to enter the priesthood.
It's called fanon—fan-generated canon—and it's still a controversial notion to the priesthood at Lucasfilm. Meet Leland Chee, the Star Wars Franchise Continuity Cop
But the highest victory of great power is that of self-restraint, and it would be a beneficent result of this memorable meeting, this oecumenical council of the press, if it taught us all -- the brethren of this mighty priesthood -- that mutual knowledge of each other which should modify prejudices, restrain acerbity of thought and expression, and tend in some degree to bring in that blessed time -- Standard Selections A Collection and Adaptation of Superior Productions From Best Authors For Use in Class Room and on the Platform
The central administration of the temple, presumably the priesthood, redistributed the produce.
He said the priesthood should be open to both married and celibate priests and urged a full debate within the Church on what he described as a ‘very serious question’.
The other half of the provincial priesthood was his with, in addition, all the priesthood of the great cities such as Keijo, Fusan, Songdo, Pyen-Yang, Chenampo, and Chapter 15
But, in a real sense, women's ordination is indeed a justice issue: to support it is an injustice and an offense to truth, the Gospel, the Magisterium, the Church, the priesthood, and the great high priest, Jesus Christ. Dissent and Heresy
I do not know whether or not we should have a married priesthood right now.
He attended a local church school and then went to train for the priesthood at the Orthodox Seminary in Tbilisi.
During the last seige of Jerusalem, while the rest of the Judaean Zealots were ready to fight to the death with the Romans, swords and spears and macho battle cries, ready to die for the return of the Kingdom, for the Temple, for the priesthood, Yochanan had himself smuggled out of the city in a coffin. The Stain of Sin
It has shown itself unable to pass on the faith in its integrity and is inadequate, therefore, in fostering the joyful self-surrender called for in Christian marriage, in consecrated life, in ordained priesthood.
Prior to Sandys the orthodox military priesthood had seen nuclear weapons as being in support of conventional forces.
Revelations of cases of child sexual abuse by members of the clergy followed, during which the cardinal adopted a stoic attitude, unmoved in his belief that the church should not give up the tradition of a celibate priesthood.
I doubt if the model of priesthood represented by Don Ignazio can survive these changes.
To cancel all debts, confiscate the property of the rich, and divide the magistracies and priesthoods among his followers. CONSPIRATA
For I am well known as a frequenter of his rites, my worship of him is no new thing, my priesthood has received the smile of his favour, and ere now I have expressed my veneration for him both in prose and verse. The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura
On leaving the priesthood, he worked in a number of jobs including a doorman, a handyman and a janitor.
Infidelity to one's vows is sinful; infidelity to the grace and character of sacred ordination to the priesthood is sinful; sexual abuse in whatever form is sinful.
Immediately after his wife's death he took minor orders as a step towards entering the priesthood, and was awarded a benefice.
As he claimed descent from kings, the priesthood, under the threat of being put to the sword, no doubt, confirmed his rights to the throne of Persia, and eureka!
And the nuclear priesthood to borrow a phrase from the father of our "Nuclear Navy", Admiral Hyman Rickover still uses many words and concepts that were already shopworn decades ago. Rory O'Connor: No Word for Meltdown: Nukespeak Returns
Both of them were priests, although Paudie later left the priesthood, and took up a position as a teacher in Sligo.
She became one of the first women ordained to the priesthood in 1994, moving to Salisbury the following year as canon treasurer, one of the cathedral's three residentiary canons.
In the capital of the empire the Taoist priesthood includes: two Tao-lu-sze, superiors, a title corresponding with that of the Buddhists, seng-lu-sze; two Cheng-i, Taoists of right simplicity; two Yen-fa, ritual Taoists; two Che-ling, Taoists of great excellence, thaumaturgus; and two Che-i, Taoists of great probity, an inferior class of priests. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
Over the last ten years I think they've been very well received in dioceses that have started to ordain women to the priesthood.
He spent the first twenty-five years of his priesthood as an academic.
Fr. Gerry Horan, was a very unusual character in that he was a late vocation to the priesthood.
He received his deaconship and priesthood from His Grace Mar Julius.
The average age for someone entering the priesthood now is well in the forties.
Fr Frank was ordained to the priesthood on June 20 1954.
The major debate is whether these were utilized only by some marginal ‘sect’ who collected the Dead Sea Scrolls, or whether they were actually used by the priesthood in the Second Temple as the cultic calendar for some period.
Yet, withal, he plainly touches at the office of the high-priesthood, with which Augustus was invested, and which made his person more sacred and inviolable than even the tribunitial power. Dedication
Whereas, in recent times, the diaconate was a stepping stone to priesthood, there is a long history of married deacons in the Church.
These three were the most junior of the priesthood, and generally got the duff jobs.
But you can't artificially bolster the numbers of men truly called to it by "bootstrapping" it to what is really a separate vocation the diocesan priesthood. The "homosexualization" of the clergy in Latin America
Given such practices, one can imagine the opposition any suggestion that women be allowed to participate in the ministerial priesthood might raise.
Women were admitted to the priesthood in the Church of England in 1996.
The Buddhist priesthood became an extension of the feudal government.
And, consequently, we must not say simply that He partook of the effect of His priesthood but with this qualification -- in regard to the passibility of the flesh. Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition
The Babylonian priesthood formed a powerful class active in agriculture, industry and commerce.
It's a sair thing, sirs, that amo 'Christians, wha ca' themsel's a chosen priesthood and a peculiar people, a jined member o 'the same church should meet wi' sic ill-guideship as I hae met wi 'at the han's Alec Forbes of Howglen
Catholics typically have a very high esteem for priests and the priesthood.
In the home the functions of the priesthood are discharged through the housefather and, under circumstances, through the housemother.
Michael leaves the priesthood and he talks about his own guess about a colleague who's done the same, and he lists reasons why the colleague has left the priesthood.
And this pope actually had a deep influence on my own vocation to the priesthood.
The first woman rabbi predated the entry of women into the priesthood by seventeen years and after a similar struggle for recognition.
If I could put off the garb of my priesthood as readily as I put it on I would straightway unfrock myself here. The Founders of the New Devotion: Being the Lives of Gerard Groote, Florentius Radewin and Their Followers.
Seminaries that are now empty of aspirants to the priesthood are filled by men and women choosing to study theology, anxious to serve their communities.
In Africa it is sacred to the priesthood or acolytes, in America it has become generalized.
Ruttledge is an agnostic who once apparently considered the priesthood.
Now a senior at Marquette University in Milwaukee, I have been considering the priesthood for about two years.
Even at an early age Jesus criticized animal - sacrifices practiced by the Jewish priesthood.
The independence of the diaconate appears earlier and more clearly in the oldest sources than that of the priesthood, chiefly because of the long-continued fluctuation in the meaning of the titles episcopus and presbyter, which until the middle of the second century were interchangeable and synonymous terms. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
– The Priesthood of Christ (illustrated in Hebrews). God’s work? « BuzzMachine
The "catechetical" schools, also under the bishop's supervision, prepared young clerics for the priesthood. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
The rate of recruitment is probably better than that of the secular clergy, but this may be because a large percentage of the monks do not go on to priesthood.
As already alluded yesterday, the Toronto Oratory celebrated St. Philip's Day in a particularly special way, namely the ordination of Br. Michael Eades to the priesthood. Ordination at the Toronto Oratory
It is moreover expressed by a disannulling of the commandment, the commandment of the priesthood, and of sacrifices and rites belonging to it.
In a bid to attract men to the priesthood, the Catholic Church here is increasingly tapping into the Internet.
We need to remember that there were many generations of women who never had the opportunity to exercise their vocation in the priesthood and there are those who would make excellent bishops who will never have that opportunity.
It is up to the bishops to make the decision about laicizing a priest, that is to say kicking him out of the priesthood.
An institution that trains candidates for ministry or the priesthood; a theological seminary.
There are three forms of this sacrament, also called sacramental orders, namely diaconate, priesthood and episcopate. they are not, however, three sacraments, but only one sacrament that is separately administered with three successively higher sacramental effects. Latest Articles
The priesthood built itself and if we help it along we are only following the line of least resistance.
Pentelicus; at Patras, the cellae of the temple of Jupiter and Hercules, which are brick, although on the outside the entablature and columns of the temple are of stone; in Italy, at Arezzo, an ancient wall excellently built; at Tralles, the house built for the kings of the dynasty of Attalus, which is now always granted to the man who holds the state priesthood. The Ten Books on Architecture
Most of the sons of the Hindu priests are not entering the priesthood, as they no longer find it remunerative.
But the archdeaconship, the deaconship, the priesthood. The Conspirators The Chevalier d'Harmental
Eddie was a member of the De La Salle order before joining the Diocesan priesthood.
She became one of the first women ordained to the priesthood in 1994, moving to Salisbury the following year as canon treasurer, one of the cathedral's three residentiary canons.
Most ancient kings were attributed to the highest order of priesthood, and drew their authority from a divine source, for whom they acted as a living representative.
The distinctive grave goods of the priest developed precisely at the time when the priesthood was under reform, when efforts were made to stop priests marrying, and passing benefices to their sons.
I vividly remember reporting the 1971 Synod on the ministerial priesthood when influential voices were calling for an end to the celibacy rule.
It took their priesthood, their pontifex, their pontiff, and gave it a whole new meaning, a whole new level.
The other half of the provincial priesthood was his, with, in addition, all the priesthood of the great cities such as Keijo, Fusan, Songdo, Pyen-Yang, Chenampo, and Chemulpo. The Jacket (Star-Rover)
Martin Luther's notion of the priesthood of all believers is particularly helpful here.
Many years ago I felt the first stirring of a vocation to the priesthood.

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