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    The document discusses the Catholic sacrament of Holy Orders. It describes the three levels of ordination in the church: bishop, priest, and deacon. It explains that the imposition of hands is the form of the sacrament. Holy Orders confers sanctifying grace and sacramental grace on the ordained. It gives the recipient the power to minister officially and dispense sacraments. Ordination can only be received once and is valid for life.

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    The document discusses the Catholic sacrament of Holy Orders. It describes the three levels of ordination in the church: bishop, priest, and deacon. It explains that the imposition of hands is the form of the sacrament. Holy Orders confers sanctifying grace and sacramental grace on the ordained. It gives the recipient the power to minister officially and dispense sacraments. Ordination can only be received once and is valid for life.

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    HOLY ORDERS
    Matter and Form Levels of Ordination

    Bishop
    Ecclesiastical dignitary who possesses the fullness of the priesthood to rule a diocese as its chief pastor, in d

    In Holy Orders, the church determines matter


    and form. The imposition of hands, or the
    laying on of hands, is the sole form, and the Priest
    A member of the second
    prayers that follow it are the form. While the grade of clergy ranking
    below a bishop but above a
    deacon and having authority
    words “Accipe Spiritum Sanctum” occur to administer the
    sacraments.
    during the laying on of hands, they are not
    found in the old rituals or Greek Euchology. Deacon
    One of the laymen elected by
    Because of this, they are not the form, but a church with congregational
    polity to serve in worship, in
    rather the prayers said after the laying of pastoral care, and on
    administrative committees
    hands is.
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    Mechanics

    The first result of Holy Orders is receiving sanctifying grace. With sanctifying grace comes
    sacramental grace which makes the ordained a prepared and holy candidate for the priesthood.
    There are many, difficult tasks performed by God’s ministers and it is in perfect accord with “God’s
    Providence,” to honor His ministers with a special grace. The external sacrament can be acquired
    without the grace as a sign of power. Grace is required for the worthy, not the valid, exercise of the
    power, which is immediately and inseparably connected to the priest. “The principal effect of the
    sacrament is the character, a spiritual and indelible mark impressed upon the soul, by which the
    recipient is distinguished from others, designated as a minister of Christ, and deputed and
    empowered to perform certain offices of Divine worship (New Advent 13: 6-8).” Holy Orders gives
    the recipient the power officially minister, the power to sacrifice, and to dispense the sacraments.
    Ordination, like Baptism, cannot be repeated with validity.

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    Liturgy
    The Holy Orders is a sacrament through which
    Christ’s mission to his apostles continues to be
    exercised in the Church until the end of time: thus it’s
    the sacrament of apostolic ministry. The apostolic
    ministry has three degrees: episcopate, presbyterate ,
    and diaconate.
    Many people wonder why this sacrament is
    called “Orders.” It is called orders because the word
    order in Roman antiquity established a civil body, and
    more importantly and governing body. Ordinatio
    translated means incorporation into an ordo. In the
    Church there are established bodies which tradition,
    not without a basis in Sacred Scripture, since ancient
    times been called taxeis (Greek) or ordines. The liturgy
    speaks of the ordo episcoporum, the ordo
    presbyterorum, and the ordo diaconorum. There are
    other groups that have received the name of order
    such as spouses, widows, catechumens, and virgins.
    Entrance into one of these bodies in the church
    was made by a rite called ordinatio, a liturgical and
    religious act that was a consecration, a blessing or a
    sacrament. Today the word “ordination” is reserved for
    the sacramental act that integrates a man into the
    orders of bishops, presbyters, or deacons. And it goes
    beyond a simple election, designation, delegation, or
    4 institution by the community
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