Can a catechumen be admitted to the minor orders?

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I am still a catechumen. Am I allowed to be an altar boy, lector, porter, etc?
 
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Since “minor orders” don’t exist anymore, no.

In my diocese, one must be Baptised and have made First Communion to train as an altar server. To be a reader or EMHC, one must also be Confirmed (unless its a “school Mass” where the students usually participate).
 
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In my diocese, one must be Baptised and have made First Communion to train as an altar server.
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Meaning, if I am not baptized, I cannot be an altar server or reader or even a catechist. What about choir singers?
 
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How come seminarians in traditionalist society seminaries such as those of the FSSP and ICKSP are able to receive minor orders if they don’t exist anymore?
 
It doesn’t matter what I think. If I say yes and your priest says no, the answer is no.
 
Because they did exist in 1962.
Vatican II suppressed the minor orders.
 
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I am still a catechumen. Am I allowed to be an altar boy, lector, porter, etc?
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No. These rights and obligations are listed in canon law under “lay Christian faithful” and that is defined further in the law as one who has been baptized.

Baptism is the gateway to other sacraments and to liturgical ministries.

Can. 204 §1. The Christian faithful are those who, inasmuch as they have been incorporated in Christ through baptism, have been constituted as the people of God. For this reason, made sharers in their own way in Christ’s priestly, prophetic, and royal function, they are called to exercise the mission which God has entrusted to the Church to fulfill in the world, in accord with the condition proper to each.

Can. 228 §1. Lay persons who are found suitable are qualified to be admitted by the sacred pastors to those ecclesiastical offices and functions which they are able to exercise according to the precepts of the law.
 
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How come seminarians in traditionalist society seminaries such as those of the FSSP and ICKSP are able to receive minor orders if they don’t exist anymore?
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The ministries of acolyte and lector still exist; men are instituted into these ministries prior to being ordained deacons (and this applies to all deacons, as far as I’m aware, regardless of which form of ordination rite is observed). They simply aren’t “minor orders” anymore but “instituted ministries”.
 
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even a catechist
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Just out of curiosity, why would you think an unbaptized person could be a catechist? And why ‘even’? That makes it sound as if it’s a lesser role than an altar server, which it definitely is not.
 
Based on what you said, a catechist has a bigger role than an altar server. If an altar server should be a baptised person, a catechist should be baptised too.
 
Theologically these ministries are exercises of the baptismal priesthood… thus post-baptism.
 
There are roles you could potentially take on before being baptized. Are you interested in being an usher or greeter? If you’re interested in becoming a catechist in the future you might see if the existing classes need an assistant or aide. If your parish has social justice ministries they can always use a helping hand.
 
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