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Find accurate definitions of over 5,000 Catholic terms and phrases (including abbreviations). Based on Fr. John Hardon's Modern Catholic Dictionary, © Eternal Life. Used with permission.

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CLERGY

Those specially ordained for Divine Service as deacons, priests, or bishops. In this sense the clergy form the Church's hierarchy. Entrance into the clerical state now takes place when a man is ordained deacon. Formerly it was at the time he received first tonsure. (Etym. Latin clericus; from Greek kleros, lot, portion; the clergy whose portion is the Lord.)

Mon28 September
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Monday of the Twenty-Sixth Week in Ordinary Time; Opt Mem of St. Wenceslaus, Martyr; Opt Mem of St. Lawrence Ruiz and Companions, Martyrs

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Today the Church celebrates two optional memorials of martyrs: —St. Wenceslaus (907-929) was Duke of Bohemia, who after many trials in governing and evangelizing his people, suffered martyrdom at the hands of his brother in the year 929. —St. Lawrence Ruiz and his companions…

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