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July/August 2007 Issue
BISHOP HURLEY ORDAINS THREE PRIESTS,
ONE DEACON
More than 700
join in the celebration at the cathedral
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Bishop Hurley ordained
Father Matthew J. Barnum,
Father Victor Kynam and
Father Mark E. Peacock and
transitional Deacon Michael F. Cilibraise
at the Cathedral of Saint Andrew on June 2. |
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Their pastoral appointments are as follows:
Father Barnum, associate pastor, Holy Spirit Parish, GR; Father
Kynam, associate pastor, Blessed Sacrament Parish, GR; Father
Peacock, associate pastor, St. Jude Parish, GR. Deacon Cilibraise
will continue with his studies.
What happens during an ordination?
- Calling and presentation of the ordinandi
(candidates) during which the vocation director testifi
es to the ordinand's worthiness.
- Election by the bishop and the consent
of the people.
- The homily is preached by the bishop.
- The ordinandi being ordained deacons, with
the intention of later being ordained priests, commit to
celibacy.
- The ordinandi are examined by the bishop
as to their resolution and willingness to serve the people
of God.
- The promise of obedience to the bishop
and his successors is given by the ordinandi while placing
his joined hands between those of the bishop.
- The ordinandi then prostrate themselves
on the floor while the Litany of Saints is sung. The prostration
is a symbol of their death to their former lives and their
rising into a new Spirit-fi lled and resurrected life in
the risen Christ, who came among us not to be served, but
to serve. The Litany of Saints invites the intercession
of this holy cloud of witnesses who will support and sustain
the ordinandi in their new lives as deacons/priests.
- The most solemn moment of the ordination
is the laying on of hands. Done in silence, the bishop lays
both hands on the head of each of the ordinandi. After the
laying on of hands, the bishop extends his hands over the
ordinandi kneeling before him and prays the Prayer of Consecration,
calling down the Holy Spirit upon them.
- Newly ordained deacons are then vested
with the stole and dalmatic. The dalmatic is a symbol of
service to God's people. English monarchs wear dalmatics
when they are crowned. The original dalmatics were woven
from white Dalmatian wool. Newly ordained priests are then
vested with the stole and chasuble. The stole and chasuble
are a symbol of his offi ce as presbyter (priest). The stole
was the symbol of office worn by civil magistrates in the
time of Constantine. The chasuble was an outer festive garment
worn by Roman men on the occasion of great celebrations
and festivals.
- Newly ordained deacons receive the Book
of Gospels from the hands of the bishop, who tells them:
"Receive the Gospel of Christ, whose herald you are. Believe
what you read, teach what you believe and practice what
you teach."
- The hands of the newly ordained priests
are anointed with chrism so that "through the power of the
Holy Spirit, Jesus may preserve you to sanctify the Christian
people and to offer sacrifi ce to God." After being anointed,
the newly ordained priest receives a chalice and a paten,
charging him to imitate Christ, who gave us his body and
blood at the Last Supper on the night before he died.
- The kiss of peace is given by the bishop
to each of the newly ordained priests or deacons
- The bishop, newly ordained and the assembly
continue the celebration with the Liturgy of the Eucharist.
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