A - Charm for the concern. Either you misunderstood what your fried was saying of he was offensive. Several deacon receives the formal procedure of Sacred Direct and is ended an ordinary vicar of Christ at some stage in the interruption of hands by a Bishop. But, they are not appointed clothed in the priesthood.
The Catechism says:
1536 Sacred Direct is the formal procedure at some stage in which the briefing entrusted by Christ to his apostles continues to be exercised in the Church until the end of time: in so doing it is the formal procedure of apostolic ministry. It includes three degrees: episcopate, presbyterate, and diaconate.
1538 Assimilation clothed in one of these bodies in the Church was beneficial by a rite called ordinatio, a secretarial and liturgical act which was a consecration, a blessing or a formal procedure. At the moment the word "ordination" is insecure for the sacramental act which integrates a man clothed in the order of bishops, presbyters, or deacons, and goes slim a simple "election, repute, hang loose, or family" by the community, for it confers a gift of the Sacred Apparition that permits the get through of a "sacred power" (sacra potestas)5 which can come sole from Christ himself at some stage in his Church. Ordination is what's more called consecratio, for it is a unbending to the right and an installation by Christ himself for his Church. The laying on of hands by the bishop, with the consecratory prayer, constitutes the appreciable sign of this ordination.On every occasion a Bishop is appointed they usher the "fullness of the formal procedure of Sacred Direct". This line of attack that they become "true and precisely teachers of the glory and occupy been ended pontiffs and pastors." (CCC 1558) Priests and Deacons do not occupy all of this rule, but still share in the ministry of Christ and the formal procedure of Sacred Direct.
The diaconate is explained in this way:
1570 Deacons share in Christ's briefing and grandeur in a special way. The formal procedure of Sacred Direct journalism them with an photograph ("special") which cannot be removed and which configures them to Christ, who ended himself the "deacon" or servant of all. Among other household tasks, it is the task of deacons to brace the bishop and priests in the celebration of the divine mysteries, first-class all the Eucharist, in the production of Sacred Communion, in assisting at and blessing marriages, in the report of the Gospel and preaching, in presiding washed up funerals, and in dedicating themselves to the varied ministries of honor.I hope this helps.
