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- Clerics in minor orders enjoy all ecclesiastical privileges. They may be nominated to all benefices not major, but must receive within a year the major orders necessary for certain benefices. On the other hand, they are not bound to celibacy, and may lawfully marry. Marriage, however, causes them at once to forfeit every benefice.
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The lower degrees of the hierarchy are designated by the name of minor orders, in opposition to the “major” or “sacred” orders. At the present time the ranks of the clergy are entered by the tonsure (q.v.), after which all the orders without omission are received in succession.
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Today, a man who receives what were previously called minor orders is not yet a cleric, since today one becomes a cleric only upon ordination to the diaconate, [8] a rule that applies even to members of institutes authorized to observe the 1962 form of the Roman Rite, [9] such as the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter and others under the care ...
Subdeacons (or hypodeacons, the highest of the clerical minor orders) are often included with clerics in major orders (like deacons and priests) in early canons that prohibit clerical marriage, such as Apostolic Canon 26. [12]
Clerks in minor orders, as already stated, are free to marry, and by such marriages they forfeit the privilegia canonis and the privilegia foci only in part, provided they observe the required conditions (cf. Decreta Conc. Trid., Sess XIII, cap. vi); though in our day such observance is practically impossible; but they are incapable of being ...
Dec 13, 2018 · Pretty much exactly what it sounds like: one who reads, yes. However, today, a “Lector” is one who reads at Mass. According to the ancient minor order, the lector read only the “lessons” found...
The lower degrees of the hierarchy are designated by the name of minor orders, in opposition to the 'major' or 'sacred' orders. At the present time the ranks of the clergy are entered by the tonsure, after which all the orders without omission are ...
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Jan 25, 2021 · The Council of Trent in the paragraph ordering that the functions of the minor orders should only be exercised by those who actually are minor clerics explicitly allows that – if celibate clerics cannot be had – married men can receive the minor orders (sess. XXIII, decree of reform, can. 17).
