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  CATHOLIC PRIESTS IN INDIA If you are not a Catholic, join Catholic Church. Only members of Catholic Church can become a Catholic Priest. You can apply in a Seminary for admission. Usually it need a recommendation letter from the Parish Priest. The Seminary may reject or take you. If got rejected you are still continue applying in another Seminary. Applying simultaneously in different seminaries also allowed. You need to stay in a Seminary during the whole training period except a few days holidays you will get in a year. The Seminaries are usually equipped with good library, play grounds, and other basic facilities for you to improve your knowledge and personality. If you completed +2 after a year of preparatory course you can proceed to study Philosophy. It will take three years. Even if you are already a graduate in other subjects still you need to do Philosophy! If you only finished High School (10th) it will take 3 years to get admitted to Philosophy. After Philosophy you nee...

HOLY PRIESTHOOD In Leviticus, chapter 9, we read that God commands Moses, as part of the old covenant, to ordain a specialized, professional priesthood to offer sacrifices for the people. Late, as part of "the new covenant in (his) blood"  (Lk 22:20) , Jesus establishes a newly ordained priesthood for the church and gives its members the authority and power to offer the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass (Lk 22:14-20) All Christians share in a common "Holy priesthood" offering "spiritual sacrifices" (1 Pt 2:5) such as prayer, almsgiving (see Heb 13:15-16) , and faith in Jesus  (see Phil 2:17) . But the special mission that Christ gave his apostles, their successors, and the priests they were to ordain -which includes, among other functions, presiding at the Eucharist and administering the sacrament of Reconciliation -was not to be shared by all of his followers. "For...all the parts (of Christ's body) do not have the same function" (Rom 12:4) The New...