Sacraments of Vocation Sacrament Essential Sacramental Symbol Matrimony

Sacraments of Vocation Sacrament Essential Sacramental Symbol Matrimony Blessing of the rings (betrothal) Crowning of the couple (marriage) Holy Orders Laying on of hands and the prayer of consecration asking for the gifts specific to that order

6. The Sacrament of Matrimony If we love one another, God abides in us, and this love is perfected in us. I John 4: 12 Christian maturity - adulthood

"They are no longer two, therefore, but one body. " Matthew 19: 6 Ready to build a Christian family (2 Co 6: 14) Do not be mismated with unbelievers. For what partnership have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?

The Power of Two Matthew 18: 19 "Again I say to you, that if two of you agree on earth about anything that they may ask, it shall be done for them by My Father who is in heaven. ”

Family is the source of life and life eternal

Our Lord, and Our God The New Horizons

is the family

Extended Families It is at the verge of explosion Nuclear Families

Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by giving heed to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons, (1 Ti 4: 3) who forbid marriage and enjoin abstinence from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

7. The Sacrament of Holy Orders Mat 20: 25 -28 But Jesus called them and said, You know that the rulers of the nations exercise dominion over them, and they who are great exercise authority over them. However, it shall not be so among you. But whoever desires to be great among you, let him be your servant. And whoever desires to be chief among you, let him be your servant; even as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.

The whole Church is a priestly people. Through Baptism all the faithful share in the priesthood of Christ. 1 Pe 2: 9 -10 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God's own people, that you may declare the wonderful deeds of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. Once you were no people but now you are God's people;

This participation is called the "common priesthood of the faithful. "

We are ordained to be servants not rulers

Pastoral Ministry Serving at the Tables

Serving at tables

Ordained Priesthood One of the Brethren set apart for the service of the Church

Shvetambaras Washed in the blood of the lamb

Celibacy is a discipline in the Eastern Churches, not a doctrine. It is a church tradition, but not an integral part of Church teaching. All the Apostles with Jesus, later bishops, and priests during the church's first 270 years were in fact married men.

“Clerical celibacy was not a requirement until 1274. In fact, it was enforced for relatively practical reasons: • First to ensure that clergy would not be hindered by following a call to ministry with respect to the responsibility of a family; and • Second, to prevent the threat of hereditary claims placed upon church property, by the children of clergy. ” Charles A. Frazee, “The Origins of Clerical Celibacy in the Western Church” Church History, Vol. 57, Supplement: Centennial Issue (1988), pp. 108 -126

Pravritti Marg In Tantra 1. Those who follow the pavritti path of extroversion; the path of the world, of activity and sensual enjoyment. is ordained within the church 2. Those who follow the nivritti path, who want to return to the source and discover their true identity. Nivritti Marg In Tantra

Celebacy Non-attachment Going back to the source: Service before Self Jinas – the victorious ones Unity of all beings

(Mat 22: 30) For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as angels in heaven.

Creation of Adam Nivritti Marg Seperation of Eve from Adam Pravritti Marg (Gen 2: 25) And the man and his wife were both naked, and were not ashamed.

1 Co 7: 7 Yet I would that all men were even as I myself. Howbeit each man hath his own gift from God, one after this manner, and another after that. Jinas : the victorious ones

Monasteries were the mainstay of retaining values and faith in times of upheavals in history.

(Mat 19: 12) For there are eunuchs, which were so born from their mother’s womb: and there are eunuchs, which were made eunuchs by men: and there are eunuchs, which made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of Heaven’s sake. He that is able to receive it, let him receive it.

and there are eunuchs, which made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven’s sake.

Men and women of God do have, by the spirit of God, a desire to serve.

Sacraments are an ongoing contact through which God speaks to man. It conveys the grace of God. Each sacrament demand a response from us in terms of faith, repentance, conversion, commitment, love, etc.

(Luk 8: 10) He said, "To you it has been given to know but for others they are in parables, so that seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.