Sacrament of Holy Orders

"Jesus said to them, 'Come after Me; I will make you fishers of men.' They immediately abandoned their nets and became His followers."
- Mk 1:17,18

Are you discerning a vocation to the Priesthood? the Permanent Diaconate?

"The whole Church is a priestly people. Through Baptism all the faithful share in the priesthood of Christ...There exists another participation in the mission of Christ: the ministry conferred by the Sacrament of Holy Orders, where the task is to serve in the name and in the person of Christ the Head in the midst of the community.

"The bishop receives the fullness of the Sacrament of Holy Orders, which integrates him into the episcopal college and makes him the visible head of the particular Church entrusted to him.

"Priests are united with the bishops in sacerdotal dignity and at the same time depend on them in the exercise of their pastoral functions; they are called to be the bishops' prudent co-workers.

"Deacons are ministers ordained for tasks of service of the Church; they do not receive the ministerial priesthood, but ordination confers on them 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." -Catechism of the Catholic Church, #1591, 1594, 1595, 1596

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