This podcast episode from "The Catechism in a Year" by Father Mike Schmitz focuses on the Sacrament of Holy Orders, specifically detailing the role, ordination, and celebration of deacons, and outlining who can confer this sacrament.
Mind Map
Click to expand
Click to explore the full interactive mind map • Zoom, pan, and navigate
hi my name is father Mike Schmitz and
you're listening to the catechism in the
year podcast where we encounter God's
plan of sheer goodness for us revealed
in scripture and passed down through the
tradition of the Catholic faith the
catechism in here is brought to you by
Ascension in 365 days we'll read through
the catechism of the Catholic Church
discovering our identity in God's family
as we journey together toward our
Heavenly Homeland this is day 215 we're
reading paragraphs
1569-1576 as always I'm using the
Ascension edition of the catechism which
includes the foundations of Faith
approach that you can follow along with
any recent version of the catechism of
the Catholic church you can also
download your own catechism into your
reading plan by visiting
ascensionpress.com Ciy you can also
click follow or subscribe in your
podcast app for daily updates and daily
notifications today I just want to take
a moment to thank you so much all of you
have supported the production of this
podcast with your your financial gifts
your prayers we couldn't do this without
you I ask our prayers at the end of
every every one of these episodes and
I'm I promise you I am praying for you
ever three literally every single day
you're part of my daily prayers part of
my daily mass I offer uh for every
person listening to this just so you
know that I'm praying I'm holding up my
end of the bargain and I know that
you're probably holding up your end as
well today's date 215 over in paragraphs
1569 to 1576. well we talked yesterday
about the ordination of priests before
that the ordination of Bishops today
we're going to talk about ordination of
deacons as well as how's that Sacrament
celebrated and so you know deacons are
that that third I don't say third tier
but we'll say you like that you know
it's part of the hierarchy so there's
tears there the third aspect remember
the Bishops and the priests they share
they participate in the priesthood of
Jesus in a unique way and the deacons
are ordained to serve remember that
diaconia is that that Ministry of
service and it's really remarkable goes
all the way back to the Acts of the
Apostles just such an incredible gift if
you know some deacons who have who serve
so well just you think wow these guys
are givers right they're so generous in
their heart that's that heart of the
deacon is the heart of a servant now
we're also going to talk about two other
middle mini sections many sections are
so how do we celebrate this Sacrament
and also who can confer the sacraments
of holy or the sacrament of holy orders
Bishop priest and Deacon like who can do
that we'll talk about that those things
today let's say a prayer and call upon
the holy spirit that Spirit of life that
Spirit of Love That Spirit who continues
to fill
um fill us with God's grace we pray
Father in heaven in the name of Jesus
Christ your son I ask you to please send
your Holy Spirit upon us remind us of
who you are remind us of Your Love
remind us of your goodness so that we
can trust you even more fully today
help us to renew our faith hope and love
in you
those gifts of faith hope and love are
truly Graces from you
Lord God pour them out upon us help us
to say yes and respond to them in a
powerful way and never let us be
separated from you in Jesus name we pray
Amen in the name of the father and of
the son and of the holy spirit amen it
is day 215 we're reading paragraphs 1569
the ordination of Deacon in order to serve
serve
at a lower level of the hierarchy are to
be found deacons who receive the
imposition of hands not unto the
priesthood but unto the ministry
at an ordination to the diaconate only
the bishop lays hands on the candidate
thus signifying the Deacon's special
attachment to the bishop in the tasks of
his diaconia
deacons share in Christ's Mission and
Grace in a special way the sacrament of
holy orders marks them with an imprint
character which cannot be removed and
which configures them to Christ who made
himself the Deacon or servant of all
among other tasks it is the task of the
deacons to assist the bishop and priests
in the celebration of the Divine
Mysteries above all the Eucharist in the
distribution of Holy Communion in
assisting at and blessing marriages in
the proclamation of the Gospel in
preaching in presiding over funerals and
then dedicating themselves to the
various ministries of charity
since the second Vatican Council the
Latin church has restored the diaconate
as a proper and permanent rank of the
hierarchy while the churches of the East
had always maintained it
this permanent diaconate which can be
conferred on married men constitutes an
important enrichment for the church's
Mission indeed it is appropriate and
useful that men who carry out a truly
diaconal Ministry in a church whether in
its liturgical and pastoral life or
whether in its social and charitable
Works should be strengthened by the
imposition of hands which has come down
from the apostles
they would be more closely bound to The
Altar and their Ministry would be made
more fruitful through the sacramental
grace of the diaconate
the celebration of this sacrament
given the importance that the ordination
of a bishop a priest or a deacon has for
the life of the particular Church its
celebration calls for as many of the
faithful as possible to take part it
should take place preferably on Sunday
in the cathedral with solemnity
appropriate to the occasion all three
ordinations of the bishop of the priest
and of the deacon followed the same
movement their proper place is within
the Eucharistic liturgy
the essential right of the sacrament of
holy orders for all three degrees
consists in The Bishop's imposition of
hands on the head of the ordinand and in
The Bishop's specific consecratory
prayer asking God for the outpouring of
the Holy Spirit and his gifts proper to
the ministry to which the candidate is
being ordained
as in all the sacraments additional
rights surround the celebration varying
greatly among the different liturgical
Traditions these rights have in common
the expression of the multiple aspects
of sacramental Grace thus in the Latin
church the initial rights presentation
and election of the ordinand instruction
by the bishop examination of the
candidate Litany of the Saints a test
that the choice of the candidate is made
in keeping with the practice of the
church and prepare for the solemn Act of consecration
consecration
after which civil rights symbolically
Express and complete the mystery accomplished
accomplished
for Bishop and priest an anointing with
holy chrism a sign of the special
anointing of the Holy Spirit who makes
their Ministry fruitful giving the book
of the gospels the ring the miter and
the Crozier to the bishop as the sign of
his Apostolic mission to proclaim the
word of God of his Fidelity to the
church the bride of Christ and his
office as Shepherd of the Lord's flock
presentation to the priest of the patent
in chalice the offering of the Holy
people which he is called to present to
God giving the book of the gospels to
the Deacon who has just received the
mission to proclaim the gospel of Christ
who can confer this sacrament
Christ himself chose the apostles and
gave them a share in his mission and Authority
Authority
raised to the father's right hand he has
not forsaken his flock but he keeps it
under his constant protection through
the apostles and guides it still through
these same pastors who continue his work today
today
thus it is Christ whose gift it is that
some be Apostles others pastors he
continues to act through the Bishops
since the sacrament of holy orders is
the sacrament of the apostolic Ministry
it is for the Bishops as the successors
of the Apostles to hand on the gift of
the spirit the apostolic line
validly ordained Bishops that is those
who are in the line of apostolic
succession validly confer The Three
Degrees of this sacrament of holy orders
okay there we are paragraphs 1569 to
1576 we started off by talking about
deacons and that that third tier the
lower level of the hierarchy to be found
deacons and just so incredible right the
imposition of hands we talked about that
we're going to talk about that later on
right that's the one of the essential
parts of the ordination is the
imposition of hands laying on of hands
from the bishop to that person to be
ordained so they received there not when
they're laying out of hands they don't receive
receive
ordination to the priesthood but unto
the ministry unto unto unto service
and there's something so powerful
because what is Deacon's call what or
even if I guess what are the tasks that
a deacon is kind of like more or less
supposed to be part of in paragraph 1570
it says it says among other tasks there
are other things but it is it is a task
of deacons to do what to assist the
Bishops and priests in the celebration
of the Divine Ministries above all the
Eucharist so to assist at the altar
that's that's the primary task
further in the distribution Holy
Communion so there they are ordinary
Ministers of Holy Communion in assisting
at and blessing marriages so a lot of
times deacons will will witness they'll
assist they'll bless marriages the
proclamation of the gospel and preaching
this is one of the more annoying things
for me meaning what I mean by that is I
Love proclaiming The Gospel I love being
able to just read the words of the
gospels at Mass I love that and then
when there is whenever there's a deacon
he's the one who gets to read it and
it's just always like oh anyways that's
just me and my personal thing but that's
part of his role proclamation of the
gospel and preaching in presiding over
funerals and in dedicating themselves to
the various ministries of Charity
there's something so powerful why do why
the various ministries of Charity well
go back to the Acts of the Apostles when
the order of of Deacon was even brought
to us there was there was a need there
was the need worth the apostles the
disciples they were
who are so busy trying to take care of
everyone that they said it's not good
for us to abandon the ministry of the
word to wait on tables and so let's
select these seven men and lay hands on
them and basically concentrate them to
do that service so it's it's in Ministry
they're ordained unto service this is so
powerful you know of course the very
next thing you hear about a deacon is a
deacon going off and preaching but
that's that's also part of the ministry
of deacons now we have a thing in the in
the west it was re-instituted not
reinstituted that's been restored I
guess probably the best way to say it
the permanent diaconate which has been
such a gift I think in the west now in
the East they've always had the
permanent deactivate they didn't have to
restore it they always maintained it and
yet we have been hopefully our parishes
have been blessed your Parish have been
blessed by that Ministry of the diaconin
now paragraphs 1572 into 1574. talk
about the celebration of the sacrament
and so basically 1572 says it's a big
deal it's a big deal Sacrament and it
should be celebrated by the entire
assembly of the of the diocese everyone
should be able to come out to this and
many of the faithful to take part in
this it's I love I like this it says it
should take place preferably on Sunday
in the cathedral with solemnity
approaching appropriate to the occasion
and like yeah that's a good deal in our
diocese we have such an expansive
diocese when it comes to like over
the area that it would be really
difficult for us to all all the priests
to be able to attend an ordination on a
Sunday because there's again we're just
spread out so far you have to take a
long time to drive across the diocese so
we typically have our ordinations on a
Friday because many of the faithful as
well as all the priests can make it on a
Friday so that we kind of do that here
but again the heart of it is this is a
massively important celebration for the
entire diocese what is a day where the
most number of people can be there
what's the what's the day with the most
number of priests can be there that's in
our diocese we've just discerned they've
discerned not me they've discerned that
that's Friday now the essential right of
the sacrament because whenever we have a sacrament
sacrament
they want to know like what's what's at
the very heart of the sacrament uh
what's what's the matter and form what
are the what are the essential pieces so
the essential right of the sacrament for
whole of holy orders for all three
degrees right Bishop priest Deacon
consists on the bishop laying on hands
laying hands on the head of the ordinand
and The Bishop's specific consecratory
prayer asking God for the outpouring of
the Holy Spirit and his gifts proper to
that Ministry to which the person is
being ordained and that's the essential
right of that Sacrament and only a
validly ordained Bishop in line of
apostolic succession can validly confer
any of the three degrees of the
sacrament of holy orders so that's
that's we got for today man what a gift
I will say this well tomorrow we're
going to talk about who can receive the
sacrament which is going to be a good
and uh helpful thing for us to be able
to pray about because one of the things
we recognize is I've been saying for
this for the last couple days we just
need to pray we need to pray uh for the
Bishops we have to pray for the priest
we have prayed today for the deacons we
have but also as we move forward you
know God continued he I believe God
wants to continue blessing his church so
let's pray for those men that God is
calling to be Bishops that pray for this
man God is calling to be priests pray
for the men God is calling to be deacons
let's pray for them as well and I am
praying for you you guys all of this
here's day 215 this is remarkable here
you are keep pressing play showing up
every single day to learn about God this
is the church you've given to us these
are The Graces you've given to us this
is the sacrament of holy orders that
you've given to us
and what an Incredible Gift it is that
you and I find ourselves in this church
that Jesus Christ has given to the world
and he lets you and I be part of it so
amazing so incredible and so let's keep
praying I am praying for you please pray
for me my name is father Mike I cannot
wait to see you tomorrow God bless [Music]
Click on any text or timestamp to jump to that moment in the video
Share:
Most transcripts ready in under 5 seconds
One-Click Copy125+ LanguagesSearch ContentJump to Timestamps
Paste YouTube URL
Enter any YouTube video link to get the full transcript
Transcript Extraction Form
Most transcripts ready in under 5 seconds
Get Our Chrome Extension
Get transcripts instantly without leaving YouTube. Install our Chrome extension for one-click access to any video's transcript directly on the watch page.
