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ARTICLE 2:PREREQUISITES FOR ORDINATION

Can.1033 Only one who has received the sacrament of sacred confirmation may lawfully be promoted to orders.

Can.1034 §1 An aspirant to the diaconate or to the priesthood is not to be ordainedunless he has first, through the liturgical rite of admission, secured enrolment as a candidate from the authority mentioned in cann. 1016 and 1019. He must previously have submitted a petition in his own hand and signed by him, which has been accepted in writing by the same authority.

§2 One who has by vows become a member of a clerical institute is not obliged to obtainthis admission.

Can.1035 §1 Before anyone may be promoted to the diaconate, whether permanent ortransitory, he must have received the ministries of lector and acolyte, and have exercised them for an appropriate time.

§2 Between the conferring of the ministry of acolyte and the diaconate there is to be aninterval of at least six months.

Can.1036 For a candidate to be promoted to the order of diaconate or priesthood, he must submit to the proper Bishop or to the competent major Superior adeclaration written in his own hand and signed by him, in which he attests that he will spontaneously and freely receive the sacred order and will devotehimself permanently to the ecclesiastical ministry, asking at the same timethat he be admitted to receive the order.

Can.1037 A candidate for the permanent diaconate who is not married and likewise acandidate for the priesthood, is not to be admitted to the order of diaconateunless he has, in the prescribed rite, publicly before God and the Church undertaken the obligation of celibacy, or unless he has taken perpetual vows in a religious institute.

Can.1038 A deacon who refuses to be promoted to the priesthood may not be forbiddenthe exercise of the order he has received, unless he is constrained by acanonical impediment, or unless there is some other grave reason, to beestimated by the diocesan Bishop or the competent major Superior

Can.1039 All who are to be promoted to any order must make a retreat for at leastfive days, in a place and in the manner determined by the Ordinary. Before heproceeds to the ordination, the Bishop must have assured himself that thecandidates have duly made the retreat.