Chapter

 1 24|   Repentance and Confession~5. Priesthood~6. Marriage~7. Holy Unction~
 2 29|                           Holy Priesthood ~This sacrament is also
 3 29|       only ones to receive the priesthood. The Holy Spirit, which
 4 29|     given the authority of the priesthood to their successors, as
 5 29|       All these prove that the priesthood is God-sent and an apostolic
 6 29|        apostolic practice.~The priesthood has three ranks, namely:
 7 29| diaconate, the presbyterate or priesthood, and the episcopate or hierarchs.
 8 29|     are the three ranks of the priesthood; all other names are mere
 9 29|      every right to desire the priesthood, but he cannot take it by
10 29|       not take the honour (the priesthood) himself, but he is called
11 29|       inner call. He loves the priesthood, and wants to become a cleric.
12 29|     itself through the call to priesthood that comes from the priest
13 29|        or from the bishop. The priesthood cannot be taken. It is given.
14 29|     given. It is given freely. Priesthood by bribery is not priesthood,
15 29|   Priesthood by bribery is not priesthood, but simony, which is a
16 29|       who pay for and sell the priesthood are condemned and unworthy
17 29|  condemned and unworthy of the priesthood.~The sacrament of ordination
18 29|        of the Holy Spirit.~The priesthood is indelible. A clergyman
19 29|       the right to suspend the priesthood and limit it. An idle or
20 29|        the indelibility of the priesthood, this teaching is a theologoumenon (
21 29|       reality, however? Is the priesthood totally removed? It does
22 29|    returned to the rank of the priesthood from which he was defrocked.
23 29|        the indelibility of the priesthood. This is the practice of
24 29|      always the criterion.~The Priesthood is celebrated and is active
25 29|        archpriest, Christ. The priesthood of Christ is, as it were,
26 29|        and priest derive their priesthood from the bishop, just as
27 29|       derives his from Christ.~Priesthood does not exist when there
28 29|    apostolic succession. Every priesthood that does not draw its source
29 29|      is not a true and genuine priesthood, but rather counterfeit.
30 29|     counterfeit. It is a false priesthood. It does not have grace
31 29|        has the fullness of the priesthood. This is why he is the only
32 29|        the priest derive their priesthood from the bishop and that
33 29|        that originate from the Priesthood.~Christ, great Archpriest,
34 29|   without the sacrament of the Priesthood, which celebrates and completes
35 29|     Your grace, to respect the priesthood, to respect the clergy,