5/12/2023 0 Comments Catechism teachingOther groups also receive this name of ordo: catechumens, virgins, spouses, widows.ġ538 Integration into one of these bodies in the Church was accomplished by a rite called ordinatio, a religious and liturgical act which was a consecration, a blessing or a sacrament. And so the liturgy speaks of the ordo episcoporum, the ordo presbyterorum, the ordo diaconorum. In the Church there are established bodies which Tradition, not without a basis in Sacred Scripture, 4 has since ancient times called taxeis (Greek) or ordines. Ordinatio means incorporation into an ordo. WHY IS THIS SACRAMENT CALLED "ORDERS"?ġ537 The word order in Roman antiquity designated an established civil body, especially a governing body. Here only the sacramental means by which this ministry is handed on will be treated.) (On the institution and mission of the apostolic ministry by Christ, see above, no. It includes three degrees: episcopate, presbyterate, and diaconate. THE SACRAMENTS AT THE SERVICE OF COMMUNIONġ536 Holy Orders is the sacrament through which the mission entrusted by Christ to his apostles continues to be exercised in the Church until the end of time: thus it is the sacrament of apostolic ministry. The Celebration of the Christian Mystery Section Two
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