Sacrament of Holy Orders

What is the concept, meaning to call, which is related to the Sacrament of Holy Orders?

• vocation

• profession

• work

• job

Why Jesus is the only mediator between God and man?

• because he is both human and God

• because He is both brother and friend

• because He is both savior and redeemer

• because He is both healer and sanctifier

This word is reserved for the sacramental act which integrates a man into the order of bishops, presbyters, or deacons.

• ordination

• baptism

• confirmation

• eucharist

Ordination confers a gift of the Holy Spirit that permits the exercise of a "sacred power" (sacra potestas) which can come only from Christ himself through his Church.

• True

• False

Ordination is also called consecratio, for it is a setting apart and an investiture by Christ himself for his Church.

• True

• False

No one has a right to receive the sacrament of Holy Orders. Indeed no one claims this office for himself; he is called to it by God.

• True

• False

The matter of the Sacrament of Holy Order is the Bishop’s imposition of hands on the head of the ordained candidate and the consecratory prayer.

• True

• False

The minster of the Sacrament of Holy Orders is a priest.

• True

• False

The form of the Sacrament of Holy Orders is the Bishop's "specific consecratory prayer asking God for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit and his gifts proper to the ministry to which the candidate is being ordained"

• True

• False

What are the three levels of ordination?