Hi my name's Father Mike Schmitz and you're listening to the

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together to our heavenly home this is day 216 we are reading paragraphs 1577 to

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It's day 216, paragraph 15 seventy seven fifteen eighty yesterday we talked

about the celebration of this sacram we talked with deacons also who could

confer the sacrament of holy orders and today just very briefly I think it's essentially four

paragraphs we're asking asking and answering the question who can receive

this sacrament and so one of the things we're gonna hear is that very right away in paragraph 1577 says only a baptized man,

veer meaning veer is the Latin term for male man like not just human beings like you know, Homo, but veer being a male human being.

Only a baptized man, veer, validly receives sacred ordination and we're going to talk about that a little bit because in our world that can be kind of a challenge for a lot of people and so we're going to dive into that as best that I can and we're going to hear what the catechism has to say on that front.

So as we enter into this topic today, let's take a moment and

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