Sentences with phrase «diaconate for»

Currently director of the permanent diaconate for the diocese of Portland, Maine, in the US, he is a graduate of the Gregorian and Harvard Universities and a consultant in catechetics and global warming.

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What is new is that women in the diaconate will be the explicit focus of a commission set up by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, that half of the theologians named by the Pope to serve on it are women, and that a leading advocate for women's admission to the diaconate, Professor Phyllis Zagano of Hofstra University, is one of the members.

In my judgment, the evidence to date indicates that deaconesses belonged to a women's order analogous to the male diaconate, carried out a ministry to women (in the congregation or in a monastic community), were ordained in rites similar but not identical to those for men (e.g., the typology in the prayers is either feminine or masculine), and were prohibited from the liturgical ministry at the altar entrusted to deacons.

Encouraged by this apparent openness, advocates for the admission of women to the diaconate have continued to examine the historical sources — early Church orders, ancient and medieval rites, and literary and epigraphical evidence.

(a) that bishops can bestow ordination for the diaconate only on married men, and it is implicit, following 1 Timothy 3:1 - 5, that bishops should be married; (b) that those who voluntarily choose not to marry, must live in a monastry in purity and continence; (c) that a bishop can not oppose the wish of an unmarried priest to marry, or if a priest is widowed, to marry again.

It was conceded that the application of so strict a rule as celibacy to those not called to a life of asceticism but ordained to the diaconate in preparation for ministry in the church had led to widespread abuse and immorality.

Toward the end of Ut Unum Sint, John Paul cites some of the questions that must be addressed in conversation with the communities issuing from the tragic divisions of the sixteenth century: (1) The relationship between Sacred Scripture, as the highest authority in matters of faith, and Sacred Tradition, as indispensable to the interpretation of the Word of God; (2) The Eucharist as the Sacrament of the Body and Blood of Christ, an offering of praise to the Father, the sacrificial memorial and Real Presence of Christ and the sanctifying outpouring of the Holy Spirit; (3) Ordination, as a Sacrament, to the threefold ministry of the episcopate, presbyterate, and diaconate; (4) The Magisterium of the Church, entrusted to the pope and the bishops in communion with him, understood as a responsibility and an authority exercised in the name of Christ for teaching and safeguarding the faith; (5) The Virgin Mary, as Mother of God and Icon of the Church, the spiritual Mother who intercedes for Christ's disciples and for all humanity.

Collaboration between the academy and the church, for example, has produced pastorally useful studies of the priesthood, the permanent diaconate, the seminaries, and the cultures of Hispanic, Asian and African American Catholics.

Edmund Nash recommends an important briefing on pro-life issues; Charles Briggs on a gripping account of the papacy of Pius VII; Kate Sutcliffe on a timely and helpful study on how the worlds religions might work together for world peace and Hans Feichtinger on an important and authoritative study of the case for the female diaconate.

Earlier she had asked the diaconate of that all - white church in a town 98 percent white to invite a black seminarian to become a student assistant and worship leader every Sunday for a year.

For the whole of the evidence on the female diaconate, see the well - documented but insufficiently integrated Report to the Archbishop of Canterbury entitled The Ministry of Women (London, 1919); also G. Huls, De dienstder vrouw in de Kerk (Wageningen, 1951).

What implications for ministry can be drawn from the fact that both the first martyr (Stephen) and the first missionary (Philip) were members of the diaconate, not apostles?