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Preface
[1] Second Vatican Council, Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy,
Dec. 4, 1963; AAS 56 (1964) pp 7ff; Dogmatic
Constitution Lumen Gentium Nov. 21, 1964: AAS 57
(1965) p 5ff; Decree Christus Dominus on Pastoral Duties of
Bishops, Oct. 28, 1965; Decree on Priestly Training,
Oct. 28, 1965.
Chapter 1
[2] Cf. Mt 3:16; Lk 4:18; Acts 4:27, 10:38.
[3] Cf. 1 Pt 2:5,9.
[4] Cf. 1 Pt 3:15.
[5] Cf. Rev 19:10; Second Vatican Council, Dogmatic
Constitution Lumen Gentium, Nov. 21, 1964, n 35: AAS
57 (1965) p 40-41.
[6] Council of Trent, 23rd session, chapter 1, canon 1:
Denzinger 957 and 961 (1764 and 1771).
[7] Cf. Jn 20:21; Second Vatican Council, Dogmatic
Constitution Lumen Gentium, Nov. 21, 1964, n 22: AAS
57 (1965) pp 21-28.
[8] Cf. Second Vatican Council, Dogmatic Constitution Lumen
Gentium, Nov. 21, 1964, n 22: AAS 57 (1965) pp
33-36.
[9] Cf. ibid
[10] Cf. Roman Pontifical Ordination of a Priest, preface.
These words are already found in the Verona Sacramentary (ed.
L.C. Moehlberg, Rome 1956, p 122); also in Frankish
Missal (ed. L.C. Moehlberg, Rome 1957, p 9) and in the
Book of Sacramentaries of the Roman Church (ed. L.C.
Moehlberg, Rome 1960, p 25) and Roman German Pontificals
(ed. Vogel-Elze, Vatican City 1963, vol. I, p 34).
[11] Cf. Second Vatican Council, Dogmatic Constitution Lumen
Gentium, Nov. 21, 1964, n 10: AAS 57 (1965) pp
14-15.
[12] Cf. Rom 15:16 (Greek).
[13] Cf. 1 Cor 11:26.
[14] St. Augustine, De Civitate Dei 10, 6: PL 41,
284.
[15] Cf. 1 Cor 15:24.
[16] Cf. Heb 5:1.
[17] Cf. Heb 2:17; 4:15.
[18] Cf. 1 Cor 9:19-23 (Vg.).
[19] Cf. Acts 13:2.
[20] Paul VI, encyclical Ecclesiam Suam, Aug.6, 1964:
AAS 56 (1964), pp 627 and 638.
[21] Cf. Rom 12:2.
[22] Cf. Jn 10:14-16.
[23] Cf. St. Polycarp, Epist. ad Philippenses, 6, 1
(ed. F.X. Funk, Apostolic Fathers, I, p 303).
Chapter 2
[24] Cf. 1 Pt 1:23; Acts 6:7; 12:24. "(The
apostles) preached the word of truth and founded Churches." (St.
Augustine, On Psalms, 44, 23; PL 36, 508).
[25] Cf. Mal 2:7; 1 Tim 4:11-13; 1 Tim 1:9.
[26] Cf. Mk 16:16.
[27] Cf. 2 Cor 11:7. All that has been said regarding bishops
also applies to priests inasmuch as they are cooperators of the
bishops. Cf. Statuta Ecclesiae Antiqua, c. 3 (ed. Ch.
Munier, Paris 1960, p 79); Decree of Gracian, c. 6,
D.88 (ed. Friedberg, 1, 307); Council of Trent,
Decree De Reform., Session 5, c. 2, n 9 (Ecumenical
Council Decrees, ed. Herder, Rome 1963, p 645);
Session 24, c. 4 (p 739); Second Vatican Council,
Dogmatic Constitution Lumen Gentium, Nov. 21, 1964, n
25: AAS 57 (1965), pp 29-31.
[28] Cf. Constitutiones Apostolorum II, 26, 7:
"(Priests) are teachers of sacred science as the Lord himself
commanded when he said: 'Going, therefore, teach, etc.'" (ed.
F.X. Funk, Didascalia et Constitutiones Apostolorum, I,
Paderborn 1905, p 105); Leonine Sacramentary and other
sacramentaries up to the Roman Pontifical, preface of the ordination
of priests: "By this providence, Lord, you have added to the
apostles of your Son fellow teachers of the faith through whom the
apostles have filled the whole world with their teaching." Ordo Book
of the Mozarabic Liturgy, preface to the ordination of priests:
"Teacher of peoples and ruler of subjects, he keeps intact the
Catholic faith and announces true salvation to all." (ed. M.
Ferotin, Paris, 1904, col. 55).
[29] Cf. Gal 2:5.
[30] Cf. 1 Pt 2:12.
[31] Cf. Rite of priestly ordination in the Alexandrian Jocobite
Church: "...Gather your people to the word of doctrine like a
foster-mother who nourishes her children" (H. Denzinger,
Oriental Rites, Book II, Wurzburg 1863, p 14).
[32] Cf. Mt 28:19; Mk 16:16; Tertullian, On
Baptism, 14, 2 (The Body of Christians, Latin Series, I p
289, 11-13); St. Athanasius, Against the Arians, 2,
42 (PG 26, 237); St. Jerome, On Matthew, 28, 19
(PL 26, 218 BC): "First let them teach all nations, and
then pour water on those who have learned. It cannot be that the body
receive the sacrament of baptism unless the soul first has received the
truth of faith;" St. Thomas, "Exposition of the first
decretal," n 1: "Sending his disciples to preach, our Savior
enjoined on them three things: first, that they teach the faith;
second, that they confer the sacraments on believers.... (ed.
Marietti, Opuscula Theologica, Taurini-Rome 1954,
1138).
[33] Cf. Second Vatican Council, Constitution on the Sacred
Liturgy, Dec. 4, 1963, n 35, 2: AAS 56
(1964), p 109.
[34] Cf. ibid, nn 33, 35, 48, 52 (pp 108-109,
113, 114).
[35] Cf. ibid, n 7 (pp 100-101); Pius XII,
encyclical letter, Mystici Corporis, June 29, 1943: AAS
35 (1943), p 230.
[36] St. Ignatius Martyr, Smyrn., 8, 1-2 (ed. F.X.
Funk, p 282, 6-15); Constitutions of the Apostles,
VIII, 12, 3 (ed. F.X. Funk, p 496);
VIII,29, 2 (p 532).
[37] Cf. Second Vatican Council, Dogmatic Constitution Lumen
Gentium, Nov. 21, 1964, n 28: AAS 57 (1965),
pp 33-36.
[38] "The Eucharist indeed is a quasi consummation of the spiritual
life, and the goal of all the sacraments" (St. Thomas, Summa
Theol. III, q.73, a.3 c); cf. Summa Theol. III,
q. 65, a. 3.
[39] Cf. St. Thomas, Summa Theol. III, q. 65, a.
3, ad 1; q. 79, a.1, c. and ad 1.
[40] Cf. Eph 5:19-20.
[41] Cf. St. Jerome, Epistles, 114, 2 (PL 22,
934), See Second Vatican Council, Constitution on the Sacred
Liturgy, Dec. 4, 1963, nn 122-127: AAS 56
(1964), pp 130-132.
[42] Paul VI, encyclical letter Mysterium Fidei, Sept. 3,
1965: AAS 57 (1965), p 771.
[43] Cf. Second Vatican Council, Dogmatic Constitution Lumen
Gentium, Nov. 21, 1964, n 28: AAS 57 (1965),
pp 33-36.
[44] Cf. 2 Cor 10:8; 13:10.
[45] Cf. Gal 1:10.
[46] Cf. 1 Cor 4:14.
[47] Cf. Didascalia, II, 34, 3; II, 46, 6;
II,47, 1; Constitutions of the Apostles, II, 47, 1
(ed. F.X. Funk, Didascalia and Constitutions, I, pp
116, 142 and 143).
[48] Cf. Gal 4:3; 5:1 and 13.
[49] Cf. St. Jerome, Epistles, 58, 7 (PL 22,
584).
[50] Cf. 1 Pt 4:10 ff.
[51] Cf. Mt 25:34-45.
[52] Cf. Lk 4:18.
[53] Other categories could be named, e.g. migrants, nomads,
etc. The Decree on the Pastoral Duties of Bishops, Oct. 28,
1965, treats of these.
[54] Cf. Didascalia, II, 59, 1-3 (ed. F.X. Funk,
I, p 170); Paul VI, allocution to Italian clergy present at
the 13th week-long congress at Orvieto on pastoral aggiornamento,
Sept. 6, 1963: AAS 55 (1963) pp 750ff.
[55] Cf. Second Vatican Council, Dogmatic Constitution Lumen
Gentium, Nov. 21, 1964, n 28: AAS 57 (1965),
p 35.
[56] Cf. cited Ecclesiastical Constitution of the Apostles,
XVIII: (ed. Th. Schermann, Die allgemeine Kirchenordnung,
I, Paderborn 1914, p 26; A. Harnack, T. u. U.,
II, 4, p 13, nn 18 and 19); Pseudo-Jerome, The Seven
Orders of the Church (ed. A.W. Kalff, Wurzburg 1937, p
45); St. Isidore of Hispali, Ecclesiastical Offices, c.
VII (PL 83, 787).
[57] Cf. Didascalia, II, 28, 4 (ed. F.X. Funk, p
108); Constitutions of the Apostles, II, 28, 4;II,
34, 3 (ibid., pp 109 and 117).
[58] Constitutions of the Apostles, VIII, 16, 4 (ed.
F.X. Funk, 1, p 522, 13); cf. Epitome of the
Constitutions of the Apostles, VI (ibid., II, p 80,
3-4); Testamentum Domini, (transl. I.E. Rahmani,
Moguntiae 1899, p 69). Also in Trad. Apost. (ed. B.
Botte, La Tradition Apostolique, Munster, i. W. 1963, p
20).
[59] Cf. Nm 11:16-25.
[60] Roman Pontifical on the ordination of a priest, preface:
these words are also found in the Leonine Sacramentary, the Gelasian
Sacramentary and the Gregorian Sacramentary. Similar words can be
found in the Oriental Liturgies: cf. Trad Apost.: (ancient
Latin version of Verona, ed. B. Botte, La Tradition
Apostolique de St. Hippolyte. Essai de reconstruction, Munster
i. W. 1963, p 20); Constitutions of the Apostles,
VIII, 16, 4 (ed. F.X. Funk, I, p 522, 16-
17); Epitome on the Constitutions of the Apostles, 6 (ed.
F.X. Funk, II, p 20, 5-7); Testamentum Domini
(transl. I.E. Rahmani, Moguntiae 1899, p 69);
Euchologium Serapionis, XXVII (ed. F.X. Funk,
Didascalia and Constitutions, II, p 190, lines 1-7);
Maronite Rite of Ordination (transl. H. Denzinger, Rites of
the Orientals, II, Wurzburg 1863, p. 161). Among the
Fathers can be cited: Theodore of Mopsuestia, On First Timothy,
3, 8 (ed. Swete, II, pp 119-121); Theodoretus,
Questions on Numbers, XVIII (PG 80, 372 b).
[61] Cf. Second Vatican Council, Dogmatic Constitution Lumen
Gentium, Nov. 21, 1964, n 28: AAS 57 (1965),
p 35.
[62] Cf. John XXIII, encyclical letter Sacerdotii Nostri
Primordia, Aug. 1, 1959: AAS 51 (1959), p
576; St. Pius X, Exhortation to the Clergy Haerent Animo,
Aug. 4, 1908: Acts of St. Pius X, vol. IV
(1908), pp 237 ff.
[63] Cf. Second Vatican Council, Decree on the Pastoral
Duties of Bishops, Oct. 28, 1956 nn 15 and 16.
[64] The Cathedral Chapter is already found in established law, as
the "senate and assembly" of the bishop (Code of Canon Law,
c.391), or if there is not one, an assembly of diocesan
consultors (cf. Code of Canon Law, cc. 423-428). It is
our desire to give recognition to such institutions so that modern
circumstances and necessities might better be provided for. As is
evident, this synod of priests forms the pastoral consilium spoken of
in the Decree on the Pastoral Duties of Bishops of Oct. 28,
1965 (n.27), of which the laity can also be members, and
whose function is mainly to map out a plan of action for pastoral work.
Concerning priests as counselors of the bishops, one might refer to
the Didascalia, II, 28, 4 (ed. F.X. Funk,II, p
108); also Constitutions of the Apostles, II 28,4 (ed.
F.X. Funk, I, p 109); St. Ignatius Martyr, Magn.
6, 1 (ed. F.X. Funk, p 234, 10-16); Trall. 3,
1 (ed. F.X. Funk, p 244, 10-12); Origen, Against
Celsus, 3, 30: "Priests are counselors or 'bouleytai'"
(PG 11, 957 d-960 a).
[65] St. Ignatius Martyr, Magn. 6, 1: (ed. F.X.
Funk, p 234, 10-13); St. Ignatius Martyr, Trall.,
3, 1: (ibid., p 244, 10-12); St. Jerome, On
Isaiah, II, 3 (PL 24, 61 A).
[66] Cf. Paul VI, allocution to the family heads of Rome and
Lenten speakers, March 1, 1965, in the Sistine Hall: AAS
57 (1965), p 326.
[67] Cf. Constitutions of the Apostles, VIII 47, 39:
(ed. F.X. Funk, p 577).
[68] Cf. 3 Jn 8.
[69] Cf. Jn. 17:23.
[70] Cf. Heb 13:1-2.
[71] Cf. Heb 13:16.
[72] Cf. Mt 5:10.
[73] Cf. 1 Thes 2:12; Col 1:13.
[74] Cf. Mt 23:8. Also Paul VI, encyclical letter
Ecclesiam Suam, Aug. 6, 1964: AAS 58 (1964) p
647.
[75] Cf. Eph 4:7 and 16; Constitutions of the Apostles,
VIII, 1, 20: (ed. F.X. Funk, I, p 467).
[76] Cf. Phil 2:21.
[77] Cf. 1 Jn 4:1.
[78] Cf. Second Vatican Council, Dogmatic Constitution Lumen
Gentium, Nov. 21, 1964, n 37: AAS 57 (1965),
pp 42-43.
[79] Cf. Eph 4:14.
[80] Cf. Second Vatican Council, Decree on Ecumenism, Nov.
21, 1964: AAS 57 (1965), pp 90ff.
[81] Cf. Second Vatican Council, Dogmatic Constitution Lumen
Gentium, Nov 21, 1964, n 37: AAS 57 (1965), pp
42-43.
[82] Cf. Heb 7:3.
[83] Cf. Lk 10:1.
[84] Cf. 1 Pt 2:25.
[85] Cf. Acts 20:28.
[86] Cf. Mt 9:36.
[87] Roman Pontifical, on the ordination of a priest.
[88] Cf. Second Vatican Council, Decree on Priestly
Training, Oct. 28, 1965, n 2.
[89] Paul VI, allocution of May 5, 1965: L'Osservatore
Romano, 5-6-65, p 1.
[90] Cf. Second Vatican Council, Decree on Priestly
Training, Oct. 28, 1965, n 2.
[91] The Fathers teach this in their explanations of Christ's
words to Peter: "Do you love me? ...Feed my sheep." (Jn
21:17); This St. John Chrysostom, On the Priesthood,
II, 1-2 (PG 47-48, 633); St.Gregory the Great,
Reg. Past. Liber, P I c. 5 (PL 77, 19 a).
Chapter 3
[92] Cf. 2 Cor 12:9.
[93] Cf. Pius XI, encyclical letter Ad Catholici Sacerdotii,
Dec. 20, 1935: AAS 28 (1936) n 10.
[94] Cf. Jn 10:36.
[95] Lk 24:26.
[96] Cf. Eph 4:13.
[97] Cf. 2 Cor 3:8-9.
[98] Cf. among others: St. Pius X, exhortation to the clergy
Haerent Animo, Aug. 4, 1908: St. Pius X, AAS 4
(1908), pp 237ff. Pius XI, encyclical letter Ad
Catholici Sacerdotii, Dec. 20, 1935; AAS 28
(1936). Pius XII apostolic exhortation Menti nostrae,
Sept. 23, 1950: AAS (1950) 657ff. John
XXIII, encyclical letter Sacerdoti Nostri Primordia, Aug.
1, 1959: AAS 51 (1959) 545ff.
[99] Cf. St. Thomas, Summa Theol. II-II, q. 188, a.
7.
[100] Cf. Heb 3:9-10.
[101] Acts 16:14.
[102] Cf. 2 Cor 4:7.
[103] Cf. Eph 3:9.
[104] Cf. Roman Pontifical on the ordination of priests.
[105] Cf. Roman Missal, Prayer over the Offerings of the Ninth
Sunday after Pentecost.
[106] Paul VI, encyclical letter Mysterium Fidei, Sept. 3,
1965: AAS 57 (1965), pp 761-762. Cf. Second
Vatican Council, Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, Dec. 4,
1963, nn 26 and 27; AAS 56 (1964), p 107.
[107] Cf. Jn 10:11.
[108] Cf. 2 Cor 1:7.
[109] Cf. 2 Cor 1:4.
[110] Cf. 1 Cor 10:33.
[111] Cf. Jn 3:8.
[112] Cf. Jn 4:34.
[113] Cf. 1 Jn 3:16.
[114] "May it be a duty of love to feed the Lord's flock" (St.
Augustine, Tract on John, 123, 5: PL 35, 1967).
[115] Cf. Rom 12:2.
[116] Cf. Gal 2:2.
[117] Cf. 2 Cor 7:4.
[118] Cf. Jn 4:34; 5:30; 6:38.
[119] Cf. Acts 13:2.
[120] Cf. Eph 5:10.
[121] Cf. Acts 20:22.
[122] Cf. 2 Cor 12:15.
[123] Cf. Eph 4:11-16.
[124] Cf. Mt 19:22.
[125] Cf. Second Vatican Council, Dogmatic Constitution Lumen
Gentium, Nov. 21, 1964 n 42: AAS 57 (1965) pp
47-49.
[126] Cf. 1 Tim 3:2-5: Tt 1:6.
[127] Cf. Pius XI, encyclical letter Ad Catholici Sacerdotii
Dec. 30, 1935: AAS 28 (1936) p 28.
[128] Cf. Mt 19:12.
[129] Cf. 1 Cor 7:32-34.
[130] Cf. 2 Cor 11:2.
[131] Cf. Second Vatican Council, Dogmatic Constitution Lumen
Gentium, Nov. 21, 1964, n 42 and 44: AAS 57
(1965), pp 47-49 and 50-51; Decree on the Renewal of
Religious Life, Oct. 18, 1965, n 12.
[132] Cf. Lk 20:35-36; Pius XI, encyclical letter Ad
Catholici Sacerdotii Dec.20, 1935, AAS 28 (1936)
pp 24-28; Pius XII, encyclical letter Sacra Virginitas,
March 25, 1954, AAS 46 (1954) nn 169-172.
[133] Cf. Mt 19:11.
[134] Cf. Jn 17:14-16.
[135] Cf. 1 Cor 7:31.
[136] Council of Antioch, canon 25: Mansi 2, 1328;
Decree of Gratian, c. 23, C. 12 q. 1. (ed. Friedberg,
1, pp 684-685).
[137] This is to be understood especially with regard to the laws and
customs prevailing in the Eastern Churches.
[138] Council of Paris a, 829, can 15: M.G.H. Sect.
III, Concilia, t. 2, para 6 622; Council of Trent,
Session XXV, De Reform., chapter 1.
[139] Ps 62:11 (Vulgate 61).
[140] Cf. 2 Cor 8:9.
[141] Cf. Acts 8:18-25.
[142] Cf. Phil 4:12.
[143] Cf. Acts 2:42-47.
[144] Cf. Lk 4:18.
[145] Cf. Code of Canon Law, 125 ff.
[146] Cf. Second Vatican Council Decree on the Renewal of
Religious Life, Oct. 28, 1965, n 6; Dogmatic
Constitution on Divine Revelation, Nov. 18, 1965, n 21.
[147] Cf. Second Vatican Council, Dogmatic Constitution Lumen
Gentium, Nov. 21, 1964, n 65: AAS 57 (1965) pp
64-65.
[148] Roman Pontifical On the Ordination of Priests.
[149] Cf. Second Vatican Council, Dogmatic Constitution on
Divine Revelation, Nov. 18, n 25.
[150] This course is not the same as the pastoral course which is to
be undertaken immediately after ordination, spoken of in the Decree on
Priestly Training, Oct.28, 1965, n 22.
[151] Second Vatican Council, Decree on the Pastoral Duties of
Bishops. Oct.28, 1965, n 16.
[152] Cf. Mt 10:10; 1 Cor 9:7; 1 Tim 5:18.
[153] Cf. 2 Cor 8:14.
[154] Cf. Phil 4:14.
Conclusion and exhortation
[155] Cf. Jn 3:16.
[156] Cf. 1 Pt 2:5.
[157] Cf. Eph 2:22.
[158] Cf. Roman Pontifical, on the ordination of priests.
[159] Cf. Eph 3:9.
[160] Cf. Col 3:3.
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