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Lesson 15

The Celebration of the Sacrament of Holy Orders

Holy Orders is a ministry through which Christ ceaselessly leads and builds up His Church.

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Holy Orders
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Lesson Vocabulary

  • Sacraments at the Service of Communion
    :
    (n.): Sacraments oriented toward the salvation of others: Marriage (spouses serve one another and help each other get to Heaven) and Holy Orders (a priest, bishop, or deacon serves his flock and helps them get to Heaven).
  • Society
    :
    (n.): A group of persons bound together by a principle of unity that goes beyond each one of them. Human beings are social beings and must live together in a society. It is a requirement of human nature. It is in society that human beings develop their fullest potential and respond to their vocation.
  • Family
    :
    (n.): A man and woman united in marriage, together with their children: a communion of persons who are a sign and image of the Holy Trinity. The family is the original cell of social life, in which husband and wife are called to give themselves in love and in the gift of life, and to dedicate themselves to the education of their children in morality, honor of God, and the proper use of their freedom.
  • Common Good
    :
    (n.): The sum total of social conditions which allow people, either as groups or as individuals, to reach their fulfillment more fully and more easily.
  • Ordain
    :
    (v.): To make a man a priest through the conferring of the Sacrament of Holy Orders.
  • Priesthood
    :
    (n.): The office of those men who mediate between God and man and offer sacrifices for the good of their people.
  • Stewardship
    :
    (n.): Carrying out of the duty to care for and cultivate something responsibly.
  • Episcopacy
    :
    (n.): The highest of the three degrees of Holy Orders and the fullness of the Sacrament, that of bishops. It makes the bishop a legitimate successor of the Apostles and integrates him into the episcopal college to share with the pope and the other bishops care for all the churches. It confers on him the offices of teaching, sanctifying, and ruling.
  • Presbyterum
    :
    (n.): The second degree of Holy Orders, in which the anointing of the Spirit seals a priest with an indelible, spiritual character that configures him to Christ the priest and enables him to act in the name of Christ the Head.
  • Diaconia
    :
    (n.): The first degree of Holy Orders in which a deacon, configured to Christ the servant of all, is ordained for service to the Church. He carries out this service under the authority of his proper bishop by the ministry of the Word, of divine worship, of pastoral care, and of charity.
  • Bishop
    :
    (n.): A successor to the Apostles, who has received the fullness of the Sacrament of Holy Orders. He is the leader of a particular church, or diocese, entrusted to him.
  • Diocese
    :
    (n.): A community of the faithful, usually within a geographic area but sometimes constituted as a group of people of the same rite or language, who are led by a bishop ordained in apostolic succession; A particular church.
  • Parish
    :
    (n.): A community of the faithful within a diocese under the pastoral care of a pastor or priest under the authority of his bishop; A local church.
  • Deacon
    :
    (n.): Men ordained not for priesthood but for ministry and service as assistants to bishops and priests. They serve important functions in the ministry of the word, divine worship, pastoral governance, and the service of charity, tasks which they must carry out under the pastoral authority of their bishop.
  • Celibacy
    :
    (n.): The state of abstaining from marriage.
  • Chancery
    :
    (n.): The administrative offices of a diocese.
  • Seminary
    :
    (n.): A school in which candidates for the priesthood are trained.

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