Day 216: Who Receives Holy Orders

The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)

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🗓️ 4 August 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

We continue our examination of the sacrament of Holy Orders. Specifically, we explore exactly who can receive the sacrament of Holy Orders. Fr. Mike emphasizes that only a baptized man can receive the “sacred ordination”. He then unpacks exactly why the ordination of women is not possible. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 1577-1580.

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0:00.0	Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz and you're listening to the Catechism in a Year Podcast,
0:09.6	where we encounter God's plan of sheer goodness for us, revealed in Scripture and passed
0:13.3	down to the tradition of the Catholic faith.
0:15.4	The Catechism in a Year is brought to you by Ascension.
0:17.5	In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church discovering our identity
0:22.2	and God's family as we journey together to our Heavenly Home.
0:25.3	This is day 216, where you're reading paragraphs 1577 to 1580 as always, I'm using the Ascension
0:31.4	Edition of the Catechism, which includes the foundations of faith approach, but you can
0:34.5	follow along with any recent version of the Catechism of the Catholic Church.
0:37.5	You can also download your own Catechism in a Year reading plan by visiting AscensionPress.com
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0:51.2	Asday 216, paragraph 1577 to 1580 yesterday, we talked about the celebration of this sacrament.
0:56.3	We talked with deacons also who could confer the sacrament of Holy Orders.
1:01.6	And today, just very briefly, I think it's essentially four paragraphs.
1:05.6	We're answering, asking and answering the question, who can receive this sacrament?
1:10.3	And so one of the things we're in here is that very right away in paragraph 1577, it says
1:14.8	only a baptized man, veer, meaning veer is the Latin term for male man, like not just
1:22.0	human beings, like, you know, homo, but veer being a male, human being.
1:26.5	Only a baptized man, veer, badly receives sacred ordination.
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