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  2. Spiritual Guidance: The professional priest - AOL

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    Welcome back to Spiritual Guidance, hosted by the spectacularly dark Fox Van Allen. Though he should be preparing for his final showdown against gnome-sympathizer and lolsmiter Dawn Moore, he has ...

  3. Religious profession - Wikipedia

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    Additional conditions for making perpetual profession are a minimum age of 21 years and the completion of at least three years of temporary profession. [6] Religious profession is often associated with the granting of a religious habit, which the newly professed receives from the superior of the institute or from the bishop. Acceptance of the ...

  4. Priesthood in the Catholic Church - Wikipedia

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    The canon law of the Catholic Church holds that the priesthood is a sacred and perpetual vocational state, not just a profession (which is a reason for, and symbolized by, the state of celibacy). There are programs of formation and studies which aim to enable the future priest to effectively serve his ministry.

  5. List of religious titles and styles - Wikipedia

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    Presbyter, Priest Reverend, Rev., Father Presbyter is the official name of the ministers commonly called 'priest'; persons ordained to the presbyterate. Presbyters are ordained as ministers of word and sacrament, most commonly assigned to serve as pastors of parishes or to assist in this ministry. Pastor, "parish priest"

  6. Jesuit formation - Wikipedia

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    Ordination to the priesthood follows, and the new priest may receive a ministerial assignment or be sent back for further studies in any academic field. The ordained Jesuit priest will either be chosen for profession as a "spiritual coadjutor", taking the usual perpetual vows of poverty, chastity and obedience, or for profession as a "professed ...

  7. Priest - Wikipedia

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    A priest is a religious leader authorized to perform the sacred rituals of a religion, especially as a mediatory agent between humans and one or more deities. They also have the authority or power to administer religious rites; in particular, rites of sacrifice to, and propitiation of, a deity or deities.

  8. Religious order (Catholic) - Wikipedia

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    Priest members Order of Preachers: OP 13th century 5,545 4,147 Order of Friars Minor: OFM 1209 12,476 8,512 Order of Friars Minor Conventual: OFMConv 1209 3,981 2,777 Order of Friars Minor Capuchin: OFMCap 1525 10,355 6,796 Third Order Regular of St. Francis of Penance: TOR 1221 813 581 Order of Saint Augustine: OSA 4th century 2,500 1,826

  9. Oshō - Wikipedia

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    Oshō (和尚) is a Buddhist priest (in charge of a temple); [1] honorific title of preceptor or high priest (especially in Zen or Pure Land Buddhism). The same kanji are also pronounced kashō as an honorific title of preceptor or high priest in Tendai or Kegon Buddhism and wajō as an honorific title of preceptor or high priest in Shingon, Hossō, Ritsu, or Shin Buddhism.