Ordained Ministry Archives

Brief Book Review: Understanding the Religious Priesthood

Sr. Jeana Visel, OSB, reviews Understanding the Religious Priesthood.

Toward a Fundamental Theology of the Priesthood

April 13, 2021 Editor Announcements CDW / Holy See Ordained Ministry

The Vatican has announced a Theological Symposium on vocations, to be held in Rome on February 17-19, 2022. Entitled “Toward a Fundamental Theology of the

Applause, Applause!

January 21, 2021 Liborius Lumma Ars Praedicandi Ordained Ministry Presiding

Is hand clapping appropriate for liturgy?

Cathedral Chapter of Chur Refuses Papal Terna

November 24, 2020 Liborius Lumma Ordained Ministry Pope Francis

After a hiatus one and a half years, the cathedral chapter of Chur in Switzerland suddenly got the opportunity to elect a new bishop from

First Blessing (Jose Alacazar Tejedor / Public domain)

First Blessing in the Ordination Mass?

October 15, 2020 Liborius Lumma Devotions and Sacramentals Eucharist Ordained Ministry Presiding Sacramental Theology Vatican II

Does it make sense that newly ordained priests give their first blessing at the end of the ordination liturgy?

Discerning the essential in sacramental liturgy: ordinations in a time of pandemic

August 10, 2020 Lizette Larson Episcopal/Anglican Liturgy Eucharist Ordained Ministry

Even in a time of pandemic, the eucharistic is not an optional liturgical context for ordinations, but of the essence of the sacramental action of the Trinity and the Church because of the unity of church, eucharist and priesthood.