Minor Orders and Tonsure Ceremonies at FSSP Seminary

On November 23rd, the feast of Pope St Clement I, His Excellency Fabian Bruskewitz, Bishop Emeritus of Lincoln, Nebraska, celebrated a solemn Pontifical Mass at the FSSP’s North American seminary of Our Lady of Guadalupe, during which he conferred the Minor Orders on several of the seminarians. Our thanks to the OLGS Photography Dept., for sharing these photos with us; below, we have photos of the tonsure ceremony which was celebrated on October 19th by His Excellency Robert Finn, Bishop Emeritus of Kansas City.

The ordination rites for the minor orders involve touching the instruments by which the proper duties of that order are exercized; during the Ordination of the Porters, they touch the keys of the church...

and are then accompanied by the assistant priest (Fr Joseph Bisig, founding Superior General of the FSSP, and now rector of the seminary) to the doors of the church, which they close and open...

after which, they ring the church’s bell.

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Tonsure, Minor Orders and Subdiaconal Ordination in Fréjus-Toulon

We interrupt our regularly scheduled Christmas photoposts (which will resume tomorrow) to bring you some photographs from our good friends of the Fraternity of St Joseph the Guardian. On December 23rd, the Saturday Ember Day of Advent, His Excellency Dominique Rey, Bishop of Fréjus-Toulon conferred the clerical tonsure, minor orders and subdiaconate on various members of the Fraternity and of the Monastery of St Benedict. You can see the complete photosets on their Facebook page. Our congratulations to these young men, to their religious families, and to the diocese. As we end this year of grace, let us remember to thank God for all of the benefits we receive from Him through the sacred liturgy and the ministry of the priesthood, and never forget to pray for all priests and seminarians throughout the world!

The tonsure of the clerics.

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