Monsignor Bonivento: No, Scicluna, Celibacy Was Never "Facultative"
Monsignor Cesare Bonivento P.I.M.E., 83 - the former Bishop of Vanimo, New Guinea, a historian who has published on clerical celibacy - has asked the Archbishop of Malta, Charles Scicluna, on …More
Monsignor Cesare Bonivento P.I.M.E., 83 - the former Bishop of Vanimo, New Guinea, a historian who has published on clerical celibacy - has asked the Archbishop of Malta, Charles Scicluna, on AldoMariaValli.it (8 February) to correct his historical lie that celibacy was "optional for the first millennium of the Church's existence".
- Celibacy has never been optional in the Catholic Church.
- The Church has always allowed both married men and celibates to be ordained, but it has always required all clerics to abstain from all sexual activity after ordination.
- There is not a single document of the Catholic Magisterium, whether of the Western or Eastern Church, which permits marriage or the use of marriage after receiving Holy Orders.
- This discipline goes back to the origins of Christianity and derives its teaching directly from Christ and the Apostles.
- The codification of this discipline took place from the Council of Elvira in 305, then with the Councils of Arles in 314, Amcyra in …More
- Celibacy has never been optional in the Catholic Church.
- The Church has always allowed both married men and celibates to be ordained, but it has always required all clerics to abstain from all sexual activity after ordination.
- There is not a single document of the Catholic Magisterium, whether of the Western or Eastern Church, which permits marriage or the use of marriage after receiving Holy Orders.
- This discipline goes back to the origins of Christianity and derives its teaching directly from Christ and the Apostles.
- The codification of this discipline took place from the Council of Elvira in 305, then with the Councils of Arles in 314, Amcyra in …More
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In Exodus 19:15
Our Lord commands that people abstain from sexual relations for 3 days before standing in His Presence.
"14When Moses came down from the mountain to the people, he consecrated them, and they washed their clothes. Then he said to the people, “Prepare yourselves for the third day. Abstain from sexual relations.”
A Priest of the New Covenant stands in Christ's Presence 7 days a week …More
In Exodus 19:15
Our Lord commands that people abstain from sexual relations for 3 days before standing in His Presence.
"14When Moses came down from the mountain to the people, he consecrated them, and they washed their clothes. Then he said to the people, “Prepare yourselves for the third day. Abstain from sexual relations.”
A Priest of the New Covenant stands in Christ's Presence 7 days a week and celebrates Mass, sometimes privately, every day! However, , but during the times of the Old Covenant LEVITICAL Priesthood, it was a different matter! There were literally THOUSANDS of Priests expected to Minister for a brief spell in the Temple of Jerusalem. Therefore, the time of service of each Levitical Priest was surprisingly rare. A Priest of that era, only stood in the Lord's Presence for a few weeks every other year. That is why Old Covenant Priests were permitted to marry - since they were rarely called to stand before the Lord in Temple Ministry. As we see with St John the Baptist's Father, Zachariah. When the Angel Gabriel appeared before him. - it was Zechariah's period of Priestly Ministry before the Lord in the Temple. The text makes it clear that Zechariah was living apart from his wife Elizabeth, throughout his Priestly Service. Since the text of Exodus 19 forbade anyone, (Priests or Laity) to stand in the Lord's Presence without having been celibate for a period of 3 days - it is known that during their period of Priestly Ministry, the norm was for an Old Covenant Priest to live apart from his wife in the Lodgings reserved for the Ministering Priests attached to the Temple. THAT is I should imagine the reason that there is a vow of Priestly Celibacy for Catholic Priests when the become ordained.
St Bridget of Sweden speaks of what is likely to happen - were the Pope to remove the vow of compulsory Celibacy from Priests. (Book 7 Ch 10).From the Prophecies and Revelations of St Bridget of Sweden. Book 7 Chapter 10
"Know this too: that if some Pope concedes to Priests a license to contract carnal Marriage, God will condemn him to a sentence as great, in a spiritual way, as that which the law justly inflicts in a corporeal way on a man who has transgressed so gravely that he must have his eyes gouged out, his tongue and lips, nose and ears cut off, his hands and feet amputated, all his body's blood spilled out to grow completely cold, and finally, his whole bloodless corpse cast out to be devoured by dogs and other wild beasts. Similar things would truly happen in a spiritual way to that Pope who were to go against the aforementioned preordinance and will of God and concede to Priests such a license to contract Marriage.
For that same Pope would be totally deprived by God of his spiritual sight and hearing, and of his spiritual words and deeds. All his spiritual wisdom would grow completely cold; and finally, after his death, his soul would be cast out to be tortured eternally in hell so that there it might become the food of demons everlastingly and without end. Yes, even if Saint Gregory the Pope had made this statute, in the aforesaid sentence he would never have obtained mercy from God if he had not humbly revoked his statute before his death.”
From The Revelations and Prophesies Imparted to St. Bridget of Sweden (Book 7 Chapter10 )
Revelations and Prophesies Imparted to St. Bridget of Sweden (7bridg10.htm) as featured on The DailyCatholic, a Traditional Catholic publication dedicated to perpetuating the One True Faith and preserving the Traditional Latin Mass in this time of the Great Apostasy by upholding the sedevacantist syllogism in order to Save All Necessary Catholic Traditions in the United States (SANCTUS) and preserve the Truths and Traditions of the Church founded by Jesus Christ upon the Rock of Peter.
Our Lord commands that people abstain from sexual relations for 3 days before standing in His Presence.
"14When Moses came down from the mountain to the people, he consecrated them, and they washed their clothes. Then he said to the people, “Prepare yourselves for the third day. Abstain from sexual relations.”
A Priest of the New Covenant stands in Christ's Presence 7 days a week and celebrates Mass, sometimes privately, every day! However, , but during the times of the Old Covenant LEVITICAL Priesthood, it was a different matter! There were literally THOUSANDS of Priests expected to Minister for a brief spell in the Temple of Jerusalem. Therefore, the time of service of each Levitical Priest was surprisingly rare. A Priest of that era, only stood in the Lord's Presence for a few weeks every other year. That is why Old Covenant Priests were permitted to marry - since they were rarely called to stand before the Lord in Temple Ministry. As we see with St John the Baptist's Father, Zachariah. When the Angel Gabriel appeared before him. - it was Zechariah's period of Priestly Ministry before the Lord in the Temple. The text makes it clear that Zechariah was living apart from his wife Elizabeth, throughout his Priestly Service. Since the text of Exodus 19 forbade anyone, (Priests or Laity) to stand in the Lord's Presence without having been celibate for a period of 3 days - it is known that during their period of Priestly Ministry, the norm was for an Old Covenant Priest to live apart from his wife in the Lodgings reserved for the Ministering Priests attached to the Temple. THAT is I should imagine the reason that there is a vow of Priestly Celibacy for Catholic Priests when the become ordained.
St Bridget of Sweden speaks of what is likely to happen - were the Pope to remove the vow of compulsory Celibacy from Priests. (Book 7 Ch 10).From the Prophecies and Revelations of St Bridget of Sweden. Book 7 Chapter 10
"Know this too: that if some Pope concedes to Priests a license to contract carnal Marriage, God will condemn him to a sentence as great, in a spiritual way, as that which the law justly inflicts in a corporeal way on a man who has transgressed so gravely that he must have his eyes gouged out, his tongue and lips, nose and ears cut off, his hands and feet amputated, all his body's blood spilled out to grow completely cold, and finally, his whole bloodless corpse cast out to be devoured by dogs and other wild beasts. Similar things would truly happen in a spiritual way to that Pope who were to go against the aforementioned preordinance and will of God and concede to Priests such a license to contract Marriage.
For that same Pope would be totally deprived by God of his spiritual sight and hearing, and of his spiritual words and deeds. All his spiritual wisdom would grow completely cold; and finally, after his death, his soul would be cast out to be tortured eternally in hell so that there it might become the food of demons everlastingly and without end. Yes, even if Saint Gregory the Pope had made this statute, in the aforesaid sentence he would never have obtained mercy from God if he had not humbly revoked his statute before his death.”
From The Revelations and Prophesies Imparted to St. Bridget of Sweden (Book 7 Chapter10 )
Revelations and Prophesies Imparted to St. Bridget of Sweden (7bridg10.htm) as featured on The DailyCatholic, a Traditional Catholic publication dedicated to perpetuating the One True Faith and preserving the Traditional Latin Mass in this time of the Great Apostasy by upholding the sedevacantist syllogism in order to Save All Necessary Catholic Traditions in the United States (SANCTUS) and preserve the Truths and Traditions of the Church founded by Jesus Christ upon the Rock of Peter.