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These include certificates of completion of the prescribed course of studies and, for someone to be ordained a deacon, of baptism, confirmation, and reception of the ministries of reader (liturgy) and acolyte. If the candidate for the diaconate is married, additional certificates are required about his wedding and the consent of his wife to his ...
On the canonical age for confirmation in the Latin Church of the Catholic Church, the present (1983) Code of Canon Law, which maintains unaltered the rule in the 1917 Code, specifies that the sacrament is to be conferred on the faithful at about 7-18, unless the episcopal conference has decided on a different age, or there is a danger of death ...
The first FSSP-appointed priest, Fr. Charles Ryan, had been ordained only a few weeks before his assignment to St. Clement on New Year's Day, 1995. The FSSP has been serving the parish ever since. In 1997, on the patronal feast (23 November), Archbishop Gervais erected St. Clement as a full canonical bilingual indult parish serving the faithful ...
Confirmation in the Lutheran Church is a public profession of faith prepared for by long and careful instruction. In English, it may also be referred to as "affirmation of baptism ", and is a mature and public reaffirmation of the faith which "marks the completion of the congregation's program of confirmation ministry".
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Through confirmation, the initiate becomes an official member of the church and receives the gift of the Holy Ghost. [1] Baptism and confirmation are administered to persons at least eight years old (the age of accountability). The ordinance corresponds to the confirmation rite in many other Christian faiths.
A celebret, in Catholic canon law, is a letter from a bishop or religious superior authorizing a priest to say Mass in a/an (arch)diocese other than his own. The name of the document is taken from the Latin celebret, meaning “may he celebrate”, as it is traditionally the first word of the text therein.
While bishops, priests and deacons are ordinary ministers of holy communion, [1] only someone who has been validly ordained as a priest is a minister of the Eucharist. [2] If a priest is, for some reason, debarred [3] and yet celebrates the Eucharist, he does so illicitly (i.e. against canon law), but the Eucharist is still valid.