That’s really interesting about the hands - what happens if a priest has a disability that prevents him raising his hands? Can he consecrate with a prosthetic? Does he cease to be a priest?can’t consecrate if you don’t have hands.
any mental illness or whatever major ailment that would keep you from performing your duties properly.
Not sure about prosthetic consecration, but anyways, he would not cease to be a priest. At the least, I’m sure he could hear confessions and grant absolution.
Just a quick grab to make sure you are a guy and not a gal.I heart that they are doing physcial exam and dental exam. What kind of physical exam are they doing. I’m just curious and what kind of sickness that prohibit one from accepting into priesthood.
thank you.
Yep, Origen was one of them.That’s really interesting about the hands - what happens if a priest has a disability that prevents him raising his hands? Can he consecrate with a prosthetic? Does he cease to be a priest?
Also, I’ve heard that you can’t be a priest if your genitalia isn’t properly formed, i.e. if you’re not entirely male, or are castrated. I think this was a precaution against over-zealous Christians in the early Church who took Christ’s command to become eunuchs for the Kingdom of God a little too literally!
That’s TOO good of a setup line for effective satire.
At the most pragmatic level, seminary formators are going to want to make sure that they are not accepting into community life someone with a communicable disease like TB or Typhoid! If someone has a disease that could lay waste to the other seminarians, they want to see a person treated and non-contagious first. Additionally, if one is entering a religous community that is responsible for your health care, they are going to want to establish that someone is not bringing pre-existing conditions with them in an attempt to better their situation. I would love to say this never happens, but sadly I am familiar with a seminarian who took advantage of travel and educational experiences to come to the US and get some debts paid off while going to school for free. The small apostolic community (religous non-monastics) that took him in as a candidate really got taken for a ride. As a precaution (sadly this is needed nowadays) a vocations director is going to want to be confident that one is not entering seminary to get a free pair of dentures.I heart that they are doing physcial exam and dental exam. What kind of physical exam are they doing. I’m just curious and what kind of sickness that prohibit one from accepting into priesthood.
thank you.
Hey I need some work on my teeth. Wish I would have thought up a scam like that! Hmmm… it’ll have to be some high fallootin order that likes to eat steak, not missionaries who can survive on mush, I suppose.
Really, Origen was a eunuch? Is that why he never got made a saint? I always thought he was a priest or bishop - was that allowed in the early days?
He also had some questionable views concerning the pre-existence of souls and the salvation of souls. He was condemned by an Ecumenical Council (posthumously). According to tradition, Origen castrated himself.