Catechism of the Catholic Church 1542 Holy Orders differs from other sacraments as it has three separate stages. It can only be given by a man who has himself undertaken all three rites and has ...

[22] Cf. CCC, 1527, 1532. [23] Cf. CCC, 1536, 1591, 1598. It is bishops who confer the sacrament of Holy Orders in the three degrees: episcopate, presbyterate, and dia­conate. In the Latin Church ...

Transubstantiation close transubstantiationCatholic belief that the bread and wine become the actual body and blood of Christ at Holy Communion. is a Catholic belief that the bread and the wine ...

This is what the Church means by saying that the priest, by virtue of the sacrament of Holy Orders, acts in persona ... of a servant…” (Philippians 2:7). Deacons, too, are in a special way ...