This content explores the sacrament of Holy Orders, tracing the lineage of priesthood from the Old Covenant to its ultimate fulfillment in Jesus Christ, the one true High Priest. It emphasizes that all baptized Christians share in Christ's priesthood, while ministerial priests act as unique participants and conduits of this singular priesthood.
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hi my name is father Mike Schmitz and
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reading paragraphs 15 39-1545 as always
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reading paragraphs 15 39 to 15 45
yesterday we started talking about these
last two sacraments the sacraments of
service sacraments of vocation
sacraments of mission you might want to
calm all of those things yet the
grounding for all of this of course is
the fact that we've been initiated into
the body of Christ we've been brought
into the family of God we've been
transformed into God's Sons and
Daughters through baptism strengthened
by confirmation and fed by the Eucharist
of course
here we are trying to live this out and
so yesterday we started talking about
these two sacraments of mission these
sacraments of service called holy orders
and matrimony and yesterday we further
talked about how holy orders is divided
into essentially three degrees the
episcopite which means Bishops the
presbyterite priests and the diaconate
deacons and here we are today we're
looking at how was that priesthood
realized in the old Covenant and how is
it fulfilled in Jesus Christ that's it's
pretty straightforward today which is
pretty amazing but also there's some
beautiful prayers here a prayer from the
ordination of Bishops a prayer from the
ordination of priests and the prayer
from the ordination of deacons that
we're going to look at and then of
course everything culminates everything
goes back to the Old Testament because
that's how God began calling his people
in the priesthood of the Levites
remember tribe of Levi but it gets
fulfilled everything gets fulfilled in
Jesus and in the establishment of his
church so we're talking about that today
as we launch into today let us throw
ourselves into the father's presence and
place ourselves in the father's Hearts
as we pray
Father in heaven we thank you and give
you praise we ask that you please send
your Holy Spirit to bless us send your
Holy Spirit to bless our local Bishop
send your Holy Spirit to bless our
Universal Bishop the pope we ask you to
send your Holy Spirit to to bless the
priest who baptized us every priest
who's ever heard our confession and fed
us with the Eucharist every priest who's
ever given us counsel every Deacon who's
ever served in our parishes and served
our families and served us individually
we ask you to please in this moment to
bless all those priests who have died
who have gone before us
bring them into your presence purify
them with your love so that they may
dwell in your presence for all eternity
and we ask you to please bless us father
in the name of your son Jesus Christ by
the power of your Holy Spirit help us to
be holy help us to be yours help us to
love the way you love 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 211 we're reading paragraphs
15 39 to 15 45.
the sacrament of holy orders in the
economy of salvation
the priesthood of the old Covenant
the chosen people was constituted by God
as a kingdom of priests and a holy
nation but within the people of Israel
God chose one of the 12 tribes that of
Levi and set it apart for liturgical service
service
God himself is its inheritance
a special right consecrated the
beginnings of the priesthood of the old
Covenant the priests are appointed to
act on behalf of men in relation to God
to offer gifts and sacrifices for sins
instituted to proclaim the word of God
and to restore communion with God by
sacrifices and prayer this priesthood
nevertheless remains powerless to bring
about salvation needing to repeat its
sacrifices ceaselessly and being unable
to achieve a definitive sanctification
which only the sacrifice of Christ would accomplish
