{"id":11444,"date":"2025-11-14T14:16:56","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T19:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/actualites\/nouvelles\/one-step-closer-priesthood\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T14:16:56","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T19:16:56","slug":"one-step-closer-priesthood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/news\/news-2\/one-step-closer-priesthood\/","title":{"rendered":"One Step Closer to the Priesthood"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It is with great joy that we announce that, during a celebration on&nbsp;<b>Thursday, November 27, at 7:00 p.m.,<\/b>&nbsp;at the&nbsp;<b>Chapel of the Grand Seminary of the Archdiocese of Montreal (6895 Boyer Street),<\/b>&nbsp;<b>Paul-\u00c9mile Durand<\/b>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<b>F\u00e9lix Lamontagne<\/b>&nbsp;will be instituted as&nbsp;<b>lectors<\/b>, while&nbsp;<b>Brother Jeremy-Marie Joly, F.E.<\/b>, of the Franciscans of the Emmanuel, and&nbsp;<b>Hugues Gagnon Boisvert<\/b>&nbsp;will be instituted as&nbsp;<b>acolytes.<\/b><\/p>\n\n<p>These ministries mark significant steps on the journey toward the priesthood. The&nbsp;<i>ministry of lector<\/i>&nbsp;entrusts those called with the mission of proclaiming God\u2019s Word during liturgy and reflecting on it deeply to live its message fully.<\/p>\n\n<p>The&nbsp;<i>ministry of acolyte<\/i>&nbsp;invites them to serve more closely at the altar and to assist the priest in the celebration of the Eucharist\u2014a visible sign of growing commitment to the service of Christ and His Church.<\/p>\n\n<p>We warmly invite you to join them in prayer and thanksgiving for their vocation and formation journey. All are welcome!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is with great joy that we announce that, during a celebration on&nbsp;Thursday, November 27, at 7:00 p.m.,&nbsp;at the&nbsp;Chapel of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11443,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nouvelle"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}