When the latter was sent back to his diocese, de Quelen exercised the sacred ministry at St. Sulpice and in the military hospitals.

St. Alcuin House Seminary offers theological and philosophical study programs to prepare people for sacred ministry.

They are primarily devoted to the sacred ministry; not so the monks, whose proper work is contemplation and the solemn celebration of the liturgy.

Young Bartholomew developed a great love for books and an earnest desire to enter the sacred ministry.

But, he was to meet the challenge as clothed in his priestly garments, he actively pursued his sacred ministry.

A cleric dismissed from the clerical state cannot be reinstated in the sacred ministry without the consent of the Pope.

(iv) Of priests exercising the sacred ministry.

Furthermore, through the Priestly Society of the Holy Cross, it has helped diocesan priests to live this teaching, in the exercise of their sacred ministry.

The members are not in holy orders, but priests wishing to devote their sacred ministry to the Brothers and patients are received.

In 1975, the Communist government deprived him of the authorisation for the sacred ministry.