ARTICLE 2:
PREREQUISITES FOR ORDINATION
Can.
1033 Only one who has received the sacrament of sacred confirmation may
lawfully be promoted to orders.
Can.
1034 §1 An aspirant to the diaconate or to the priesthood is not to be ordained
unless he has first, through the liturgical rite of admission, secured
enrolment as a candidate from the authority mentioned in cann. 1016 and 1019.
He must previously have submitted a petition in his own hand and signed by him,
which has been accepted in writing by the same authority.
§2 One who
has by vows become a member of a clerical institute is not obliged to obtain
this admission.
Can.
1035 §1 Before anyone may be promoted to the diaconate, whether permanent or
transitory, he must have received the ministries of lector and acolyte, and
have exercised them for an appropriate time.
§2 Between
the conferring of the ministry of acolyte and the diaconate there is to be an
interval of at least six months.
Can.
1036 For a candidate to be promoted to the order of diaconate or priesthood, he
must submit to the proper Bishop or to the competent major Superior a
declaration written in his own hand and signed by him, in which he attests that
he will spontaneously and freely receive the sacred order and will devote
himself permanently to the ecclesiastical ministry, asking at the same time
that he be admitted to receive the order.
Can.
1037 A candidate for the permanent diaconate who is not married and likewise a
candidate for the priesthood, is not to be admitted to the order of diaconate
unless he has, in the prescribed rite, publicly before God and the Church
undertaken the obligation of celibacy, or unless he has taken perpetual vows in
a religious institute.
Can.
1038 A deacon who refuses to be promoted to the priesthood may not be forbidden
the exercise of the order he has received, unless he is constrained by a
canonical impediment, or unless there is some other grave reason, to be
estimated by the diocesan Bishop or the competent major Superior
Can.
1039 All who are to be promoted to any order must make a retreat for at least
five days, in a place and in the manner determined by the Ordinary. Before he
proceeds to the ordination, the Bishop must have assured himself that the
candidates have duly made the retreat.
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