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<\/p>\n\nThe Grand S\u00e9minaire de l\u2019Archidioc\u00e8se de Montr\u00e9al will open the 2022-2023 new academic term on Thursday, September 15, beginning at 7:30 p.m., at Saint-Ars\u00e8ne church, located at 1015 B\u00e9langer St. in Montreal.<\/p>\n\n
On this occasion, four future priests enrolled in studies at the Grand S\u00e9minaire will be invested with the ministry of acolytes. They are:<\/p>\n\n
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Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Montreal Alain Faubert will preside at the ceremony.<\/p>\n\n
\u2003<\/strong><\/p>\n\n What does investiture with the ministry of acolyte mean?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n The ministry of acolyte, or ministry in the service of community prayer and the Eucharist, permits the seminarian to assist the deacon and the priest in leading prayer meetings, as well as in serving at Mass. Depending on the community\u2019s needs, the acolyte may now be entrusted with exposing the Holy Sacrament for adoration by the faithful and subsequently reposing it, without performing the blessing.<\/p>\n\n It is also the acolyte\u2019s responsibility to distribute Holy Communion as an extraordinary minister.<\/p>\n\n The ministries of lector and acolyte are both \u201cinstituted ministries,\u201d meaning that these particular functions are conferred on a layperson specifically by the bishop. In his motu proprio apostolic letter Spiritus Domini, issued January 11, 2021, Pope Francis decreed that the ministries of Lector and Acolyte should also be opened up to women to serve, as lectors for the Word of God and at the altar as acolytes.<\/p>\n\n For those receiving these ministries, the investiture is most often a step towards ordination and receiving further graces by subsequent degrees.<\/p>\n\n Members of the media wishing to take part in the ceremony are invited to contact the undersigned.<\/em><\/p>\n\n About the Grand S\u00e9minaire de l\u2019Archidioc\u00e8se de Montr\u00e9al (gsam-montreal,org)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n Since 1840, the Grand S\u00e9minaire de l\u2019Archidioc\u00e8se de Montr\u00e9al has had as its chief mission the formation of priests with a deep devotion to Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n\n Additionally, the new Grand S\u00e9minaire is a general basic training centre in philosophy, theology and pastoral ministry for religious men and women and laypersons as well, thanks to a partnership with Universit\u00e9 Laval\u2019s Faculty of theology and religious sciences. The Grand S\u00e9minaire de l\u2019Archidioc\u00e8se de Montr\u00e9al also offers a formation program in preparation for the permanent diaconate. Follow us on Facebook: Grand s\u00e9minaire de l’Archidioc\u00e8se de Montr\u00e9al | Facebook<\/a> The Grand S\u00e9minaire de l\u2019Archidioc\u00e8se de Montr\u00e9al will open the 2022-2023 new academic term on Thursday, September 15, beginning at…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7212,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7213","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\/7213","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=7213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7215,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7213\/revisions\/7215"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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