Questions on Religious Orders

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Hi, I am discerning the religious priesthood.I have a few questions about it.
  1. What orders celebrate mass ad orientem, are clerics regular or mendicant, and have an emphasis on learning and preaching?
  2. Would I get a degree and then enter the order or enter the order and then get a degree?
 
I couldn’t answer the first part, but as for the second part, one of the orders I’m looking at seems to encourage you waiting to get a degree until you get there. They want to send their priesthood candidates to a local minor seminary for undergraduate, then have them go to major seminary out of state. Of course, most orders will probably be OK if you already have a degree. They may just want you to take certain courses before going off to seminary.
 
Order of Preachers (i.e. the Dominicans) fit your constraints pretty well.

With them, I believe the normal course is for you to get a degree first - but it’d ultimately be up to whatever province you reside in; they can be quite different.
 
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