EAN: 9783732905515

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Becoming a Priest focuses on the period between the establishment of the Church by Christ and the middle of the 12th century when the ecclesiastical discipline necessary to preserve the original meaning purpose and duties of sacred ministers was stablished. The belief that the Holy Order is received as a gift obliges the Church to respect and protect the integrity of the ministry. Sources show how the non-obligatory nature and the high moral requirements of the priesthood guaranteed ever more seriously a person's suitability to every degree of the Holy Order. Gratian's Decretum (12th c.) already gives a well balanced and thought-out explication of the qualities of the applicants for the formation of and the degrees of the sacred ministry including the roles of bishops and priests to recognize select and train those who feel themselves called to the priesthood and have been be found suitable by the Church authorities. The Decretum Gratiani summarizes the essential basisfor determining who is worthy to receive the ministry of Christ and has been held as the authority in this regard for subsequent centuries.

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