In the framework of a celebratory mass, the third-year junior priests of the Seminary on Incarnate Wisdom expressed their commitment to Jesus and the Church and took on the reverend at the Gyulafehérvár Cathedral at the end of October. The student priests who received admission were thereby officially admitted to the ranks of the priest candidates, and through the reverend they put on Christ.

When the minor priests take on the reverend, it is a step, a stepping stone in their search for God - the assistant bishop László Kerekes, who celebrated the mass, pointed out in his homily. "For us, the reverend means the deep relationship with God that we strive for, for which we have to fight again and again every day. And when we put it on ourselves, we really look at the world differently, we look at our fellow man differently." He wished the junior priests to be able to take on the mercy, goodness, gentleness, patience, tolerance of each other, and the great gratitude encouraged by St. Paul the Apostle. "I pray and wish for all of us that we can really see our world through God's eyes and that we can really make the sacrifice of seeking God every day."

Dressing and admission is a prominent celebration of the seminary community. The evening before that, they tuned into it with a quiet, prayerful, intimate ceremony in the seminary's chapel. As part of this, the Grand Master and the spiritual father spoke to the junior priests, and then the reverend fathers handed over the reverends to the third-year junior priests. The joint celebration ended with a prayer and completorium that ended the day. The pulsating heart and vision - these are the two things recommended by the sixth-year Grand Master Tibor Roland Oros for the junior priests to keep in mind, as they can follow Jesus. "Just as the human heart needs to beat in order to pump oxygen-filled blood into the body and to function properly, if you put on the Reverend and there is no pulsing heart under it that you have engaged, then this Reverend will remain as much as a piece of clothing. This pulsation is what makes the reverend what it really is.”

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