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    "Baptism, Confirmation, and Eucharist are sacraments of Christian initiation. They ground the common vocation of all Christ’s disciples, a vocation to holiness and to the mission of evangelizing the world. They confer the graces needed for the life according to the Spirit during this life as pilgrims on the march towards the homeland."
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      • Fr. Braxton J. Necaise
        Fr. Braxton J. Necaise
        St. Thomas Aquinas Parish, Hattiesburg; Associate Vocation Director
        (601)264-5192
        vocationsbiloxidiocese.org
      • Fr. Adam Urbaniak
        Fr. Adam Urbaniak
        Our Lady of Victories Parish, Pascagoula; Vocation Director
        (228) 806-3416
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    • April 22, 2023
      St. Joseph Parish, Gulfport
      12290 Depew Road
      Gulfport, MS 39503

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      The sacrament (of Holy Orders) configures the recipient to Christ by a special grace of the Holy Spirit, so that he may serve as Christ’s instrument for His Church.  By ordination, one is enabled to act as a representative of Christ, Head of the Church, in his triple office of priest, prophet and king.”  (CCC 1581)

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      "Deacons share in Christ's mission and grace in a special way. The sacrament of Holy Orders marks them with an imprint ("character") which cannot be removed and which configures them to Christ, who made himself the "deacon" or servant of all." (CCC 1570)

       

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      “In the consecrated life, Christ’s faithful, moved by the Holy Spirit, propose to follow Christ more nearly, to give themselves to God who is loved above all and, pursuing the perfection of charity in the service of the Kingdom, to signify and proclaim in the Church the glory of the world to come.” (CCC 916)

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      "The intimate community of life and love which constitutes the married state has been established by the Creator and endowed by him with its own proper laws. . . . God himself is the author of marriage. The vocation to marriage is written in the very nature of man and woman as they came from the hand of the Creator.”
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      "In the Church, which is like the sacrament- the sign and instrument - of God's own life, the consecrated life is seen as a special sign of the mystery of redemption. To follow and imitate Christ more nearly and to manifest more clearly his self- emptying is to be more deeply present to one's contemporaries, in the heart of Christ." (CCC 932)

      - Catholic News Agency : Little Known Vocation of Consecrated Virginity
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      The Catechism of the Catholic recognizes “the great number of single persons who, because of the particular circumstances in which they have to live – often not of their choosing – are especially close to Jesus' heart and therefore deserve the special affection and active solicitude of the Church, especially of pastors.” (CCC 1658)

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