This content explains the Catholic Church's teaching on who can receive the Sacrament of Holy Orders, emphasizing that it is exclusively reserved for baptized men, a practice rooted in Jesus' choice of male apostles.
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hi my name is father Mike Schmitz and
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reading paragraphs
1577-1580 as always I'm using the
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paragraphs 1577 1580 yesterday we talked
about the celebration of this Sacrament
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
answering asking and answering the
question who can receive this Sacrament
and so one of the things we're going to
hear is that very right away in
paragraph 1577 says only a baptized man
Veer meaning uh Veer is the Latin term
for male man uh 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 gonna talk about that a little
bit because in our world that could 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 gonna hear
what the catechism has to say on that
front so as we enter into this topic
today let's take a moment and before we
dive into these four paragraphs let us
dive into the Father's Heart and ask for
Father's wisdom to ask for the wisdom of
Jesus and the power of the Holy Spirit
Father in heaven we ask you to please in
the name of your son Jesus Christ send
us your Holy Spirit a spirit of wisdom a
spirit of of knowledge a spirit of
understanding give us a spirit of of
docility a spirit of being able to be
taught give us a teachability lord God that
that
that guides us when we don't understand
that guides us when we have questions
that guides us when we struggle we ask
you Lord God to give us Minds that are
quick Minds that are
sharp we ask you to give us Minds that are
are
willing to be led but also willing to
ask questions Lord God give us Minds
that are willing to seek the truth and
to hold on to the truth when we find it
wherever we find it
you are the source of all truth you're
the source of all goodness you're the
source of all Grace we ask you to give
us your Grace lead us to your truth help
us to live goodness in Jesus name we
pray in the name of the father and of
the son and of the holy spirit amen it
is day 216 we are reading paragraphs
1577 to 1580.
who can receive this sacrament
only a baptized man Veer validly
receives sacred ordination
the Lord chose men Veri to form the
College of The Twelve Apostles and the
apostles did the same when they chose
collaborators to succeed them in their
Ministry the College of Bishops with
whom the priests are united in the
priesthood makes the College of the
twelve and ever-present and ever active
reality until Christ's return
the church recognizes herself to be
bound by this Choice made by the Lord
himself for this reason the ordination
of women is not possible
no one has a right to receive the
sacrament of holy orders indeed no one
claims this office for himself he is
called to it by God
anyone who thinks he recognizes the
signs of God's call to the ordained
Ministry must humbly submit his desire
to the authority of the church who has
the responsibility and right to call
someone to receive orders
like every Grace this Sacrament can be
received only as an unmerited gift
all the ordained ministers of the Latin
church with the exception of permanent
deacons are normally chosen from among
men of Faith who live a celibate life
and who intend it to remain celibate for
the sake of the Kingdom of Heaven
called to consecrate themselves with
undivided heart to the Lord and to the
Affairs of the Lord they give themselves
entirely to God and to men
celibacy is a sign of this new life to
the service of which the church's
minister is consecrated accepted with a
joyous heart celibacy radiantly
proclaims the reign of God
in the Eastern churches a different
discipline has been enforced for many
centuries while Bishops are chosen
solely from among celibates married men
can be ordained as deacons and Priests
this practice has long been considered
legitimate these priests exercise a
fruitful Ministry within their
communities moreover Priestly celibacy
is held in great honor in the Eastern
churches and many priests have freely
chosen it for the sake of the kingdom of God
God
in the east as in the west a man who has
already received the sacrament of holy
orders can no longer marry
right as I said four paragraphs paragraphs
paragraphs
1577-1580 and it brings up as you know
the opening prayer was very conscious of
the fact that this is this topic of who
can receive sacrament of holy orders it
can be a challenge to a lot of people
and and and some people even find would
maybe possibly claim that the sacrament
of holy orders being restricted
exclusively to men is unjust and we're
going to look at that or do our my best
to try to address that claim so let's do
our best I know in fact I have to say on
for my part
you know even talking about the
sacrament of holy orders as we have been
for the last number of days one of the
things that I I've been hesitant to to
say his has been
I kind of grew up with in it not because
of my family not because of any one
person but because I grew up in this
culture here in the United States of
America in the late 20th century that
that
that was kind of embarrassed about this
idea like the even the idea that I could
be called that could be personally
called to be a priest was one of those
things that was like yeah I don't kind
of have to apologize for that like even
when we we've been reading the last
couple days here about here's the
Dignity of the priesthood here's you
know the power that God bestows on the
priests and I just kind of it makes I'm
a little sheepish actually that I don't
know if you caught that at all maybe it
didn't give that impression I really
tried to I guess not hide it but kind of
hide it in some ways because again my
background it comes from this place of
kind of being somewhat apologetic about
the fact that I know that not everyone
receives the sacrament of holy orders in
fact there's in in some ways only a few
people who are in in light of the large
group of Christians who actually
received the Sacramento foliators and
only men can receive or are able to
receive the sacrament of holy orders and
so you know you talk about this oh this
is a great thing this is an incredible
thing what a gift God has given to other
Church which is true 100 true
but I'm always keeping in mind the fact
that you know there could be one of my
sisters in Christ listening to this and
saying yeah but that not for me that
that guy could never do that and and
feeling badly about that I get that like
I got a hundred percent
um understand that and so I again I
I grew up I remember when I was I went
to first when I went to Seminary and
there were some young women on the
campus that I went to Seminary at and it
was the first time I I did a retreat
with a bunch of college students and
and
some of these college students were
helping with this retreat they were just
yeah they loved the Lord they loved the
church I remember asking them like okay
I'm in the Seminary you know do you ever
have is is that never an issue for you
that here as a woman who loves Jesus and
wants to serve his church uh that you
can't be ordained to the priesthood you
know and it was the first time that I I
met people women who loved the Lord and
wanted to serve the church their whole
lives and had no desire and had no I
mean they're like yeah it would be great
to be incredible but weren't mad about
it right weren't upset about weren't sad
about the fact that no that's just how
Jesus set it up you know I I guess this
is the briefest of reasons like the
question is well the statement is only a
baptized man validly receives
segregation the question is why how come
and at the very last sentence in
paragraph 1577
for this reason the ordination of women
is not possible and the question is well
why is that you know in fact there are
sometimes you have stories sometimes you
even have some Bishops who say well
maybe maybe women's ordination is
possible and yet the firm teaching of
the church is that the ordination of
women is not possible not that not that
the church won't do it but it's not
possible the question again is why why
is ordination
reserved exclusively for men
the answer and the only theological
answer is because that's how Jesus
established this I mean that's I mean
again that's you could be mad about that
and we can all be mad about that if you
if you are but that that's the answer
there's a lot of their other theological
reasons there's other uh things I want
to kind of dive into a little bit here
but the first thing we have to say is
yeah we didn't choose this this was
given to us in a similar way that we
didn't choose we're gonna have bread and
wine that becomes Christ's body and
blood like that was given to us that
that when you pour water or immerse
someone in water and baptize them in the
name of the fathers and holy spirit that
that's what brings a person into the
kingdom like we didn't choose that that
was given to us I think keep this in
mind that all of the sacraments have
been given to us we've received them
and when Jesus gave us the sacrament of
holy orders when he gave us this New
Covenant priesthood
he exclusively chose men now some people
will say well Jesus was a part product
of his culture and and so of course he
didn't choose women because it's because
he's part of the Jewish people and
Jewish Judaism didn't have female
priests and so he never would even think
of this now a couple things keep in mind
yes Jesus is situated in time and he is
yes he's fully Jewish yet there are many
times when Jesus didn't mind you know
flipping over the tables in more ways
than one literally and figuratively
there are many times when Jesus raised
up the Dignity of women and that's
probably what I should where I should
have started in this place of just
saying when the church says only a
baptized man can receive validly receive ordination
