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10 hours ago · Deacon Mark Ha will be ordained to the priesthood at St Christopher’s Cathedral on Thursday, 17 October. All are welcome to attend. Deacon Ha always thought that God was calling him to be a priest. “When I was young, I loved to hang around with the Franciscans and the brothers. I loved priests.”.
10 hours ago · In the Catholic Church, the diaconate is the first of three ranks in ordained ministry — deacons, priests, and bishops. Deacons preparing for the priesthood are transitional deacons. Those not planning to be ordained priests are called permanent deacons. Married men may be ordained permanent deacons.
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10 hours ago · Reflecting on the significance of priesthood, the bishop emphasized, "God sends a priest to proclaim the Gospel, sanctify his people, and continue the mission of mercy, being a man of God and the Church." He explained the essence of the priesthood by emphasizing how God calls, anoints, and commissions a priest for a divine purpose.
10 hours ago · As a reflection of the structure of the Church, in the Prelature the ministerial priesthood and the common priesthood are intimately united and mutually demanding and complementary, in order to achieve the end of the Work, in unity of vocation and regime”. (Bishop Alvaro del Portillo, Letter 24.01.1990, n. 34)
10 hours ago · We would have no doubt gone to bars as well, but some of us weren’t yet 21. Frassati had many friends. He shared his faith with them and through his numerous apostolates. He loved sports, played pranks and loved to laugh. For us, he was a young Catholic we could at once identify with and also aspire to be like.
10 hours ago · The Saint assigns the reason of the superiority of the priesthood over Mary; she conceived Jesus Christ only once; but by consecrating the Eucharist, the priest, as it were, conceives Him as often as he wishes, so that if the Person of the Redeemer had not as yet been in the world, the priest, by pronouncing the words of Consecration, would ...
