7 Traditional Catholic Holy Orders (plus Tonsure) by Dr Taylor Marshall 

Good to see you getting the chance to talk about something other than the state of the church today Dr Marshall!

I still cannot believe in the lack of wisdom or logic that led to the removal of these great orders especially that of the minor exorcist. Every time I hear about it my soul and heart breaks. On my bad days I am completely livid. The people need these prayers. This video needed to be made so I thank you greatly Taylor for being the one to take the time to describe it all in detail for us all.🥰🥰 Be blessed.

Oh wow my prayer answered!! I’m currently in the NSTI and cannot wait for the Roman Rites curriculum!!! I have been longing to understand more deeply every aspect of this! Thank you Dr. Marshall! This is awesome!!!

Absolutely mind-boggling that they got rid of these. We need these more than ever, because priestly formation these days is in a rut.

Love you Dr. Taylor. No homo.

Thanks for explaining the sacrificial character of reading the epistle and gospel. Eye-opener!

Thank you for this! I know you don't plan to make this a regular thing, and I love TNT, but it's great to throw something like this in every once in awhile too!

Thank you Dr. Taylor Marshall . That was interesting , informative and educational brief as it was I learned a lot . May God bless all that you do for God's greater glory .

Excellent video and teaching Dr Marshall!

Regarding Diaconate: What the 7 Deacons do in the Acts of the Apostles, Deacons should be doing until the Second Coming of Christ: 1) Administrating the goods of the Church especially on behalf of those in need. 2) Preaching the Gospel, evangelizing, explaining Scriptures, as Deacon Stephen and Deacon Philip do. 3) Baptizing, Exorcising and healing the sick as Deacon Philippe does. 4) Preparing people to receive the Sacrament of Confirmation from the Apostles (or their successors) as Deacon Philip does. 5) BUT the key to FULLY understand the DIACONATE is in its LITURGICAL VESTMENT. Anybody in this conversation knows: 1) THE ORIGIN AND NAME OF THE DALMATICA? 2) WHAT DID THE DALMATIC MEAN IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE AND LATER IN THE REPUBLIC OF VENICE? 3) WHY A POPE GAVE IT TO THE DEACONS OF ROME IN THE ERALY CHURCH AS A SIGNE OF THEIR ORDER AND RELATION TO CHRIST THROUGH THE BISHOP? If you understand the DALMATIC you understand the DIACONATE!!! I challenge somebody to answer!!! One more important question: 4) WHO IS THE TYPE OF THE DEACON IN THE OLD TESTAMENT? 5) WHAT DID THE TYPE DO AND WHAT DID NOT DO? I give you a clue: Go to the words of consecration in the Liturgy of Ordination of a Deacon: What His Type did in the Old Testament the Deacon should analogically be doing in the New Testament: The Deacon is the fulfillment in the New Testament of what His Type was in the Old Testament.

Thank you Dr Tailor Marshall

Nice video Dr. Marshall. I would love to see more long form educational videos like this. I love current events, but I think it is nice to take a focused dive on items like this. I think you can do a lot to help correct confusion. Suggested deep dives: No Salvation Outside the Church, Ecumenism, Education (Homeschooling or not?), Bible Deep Dive (series like you did on Revelation), Vatican 2 deep dives: Religious Liberty, Role of the Laity, It was merely Pastoral, Role of Conscience, Time Bombs ins the documents, etc. Keep up the good work! Praying for you and Tim,

Thank you! This was so interesting.

Glad I am already a member 😊

God Bless you for this video. Thank you.

please more of this type of recording and subject matter instead of the relentless 'scandal' stuff ...brilliant

Nice video! Could you and Tim maybe do some videos on Aristotle and metaphysics? Especially on form and final causes as they are rejected by our modern world. Maybe arguments for their existence as well. It would be a nice break from all the sadness in the Church. Lovely video again.

ST. JUSTIN MARTYR ON THE EUCHARIST (written between 153 and 155 A.D) AND WHEN THE PRESIDENT HAS GIVEN THANKS, AND ALL THE PEOPLE HAVE EXPRESSED THEIR ASSENT, THOSE WHO ARE CALLED BY US DEACONS GIVE TO EACH OF THOSE PRESENT TO PARTAKE OF THE BREAD AND WINE MIXED WITH WATER OVER WHICH THE THANKSGIVING WAS PRONOUNCED, AND TO THOSE WHO ARE ABSENT THEY CARRY AWAY A PORTION. Since ancient times deacons distributed the Eucharist both within Mass and to those absent.

I had to come back to this because I just heard from my 27 year old nephew. He just got married after pre-Cana with a Dominican priest. Caleb is a journalist who hated his job. Toward the end of their classes he was offered a job with the Dominicans helping with communications, like video classes, short teachings, etc, based on St. Thomas. He's quite excited about it. He's a Hillsdale College graduate, which is where his beautiful traditional Catholic wedding was held down the road from the college, and the reception was held. Caleb and his wife are both converts as a result of Hillsdale, a common occurrence, I understand.

Hi Dr. Marshall, could you talk about the history of the Permanent diaconate for married men?

Very organized presentation! Anyone could follow your lectures. I always enjoy your videos but this topic is very important to grasp in these times. Securing the church during Mass was a thing of the past? Why did we stop securing our churches? The holy water at each entry is our spiritual guards furthermore, in the physical we must guard ourselves in our practices. The tonsure. So important yet lost in change.....

By Pope Paul VI's motu proprio Ministeria quaedam of 15 August 1972, the term "minor orders" has been replaced by that of "ministries".

This evening I was ordained to the Order of Porter by my Bishop because today is Ember Saturday on the Julian calendar. The Western rites of the Orthodox Church never lost tonsure and the seven Holy Orders in the original form. I received tonsure at Epiphany which was on the 19th of January on the patristic and catholic calendar. Only the Bishop has the fullness of the Priesthood. Lower form priests (which is what I want to be) can be defrocked and no longer be Priests because the Priesthood is ONLY indelible with the Episcopate. A defrocked Bishop is still a priest.

Please consider doing a video with Anthony Stine from Return To Tradition

I’m 81 years old. A pre-Vatican II Catholic. My cousin was a priest ordained in 1956 at age 26. At that time tonsure was given in 1st Theology, Lector and Porter in 2nd Theology, Exorcist and Acolyte in 3rd Theology, Subdeacon and Deacon in 4th Theology. Priesthood after 4th Theology. Most of newly ordained were 26 years old, not 34 as Dr. Marshall has indicated.

Hi Dr Marshall, You are far better educated that I could ever wish to be. I am starting to get very dishearted by Tradionalist including Church Militant to whom I subscribe. I am a cradle Catholic 1945. Ever since I could afford to buy books or pamphlets I did, my thurst for knowledge re Catholic Church was immense. My father was a 1940 Convert and a street preacher here in Sydney for many years in the 1950s. My father was the holiest man I have ever known personally. So I was surrounded by the Faith. Then came Vatican II and the 1960s a torrid time for any teenanger. Thankfully my Blessed Mother & Guardian Angel saw me through it fairly well. In 1987 I was installed as an Acolyte, I took the job extremely seriously and I have not served actively since 2003 because of poorly acting Priests. Now I am being bombarded not doing prayers or Mass in Latin. Even as a wee altar boy in the 1950s the Latin meant nothing to me, I knew the responses, but I did not really understand. When the local venacular was introduced it took a while but I DID understand everying that was going on. I consider myself a strict Catholic and often get into arguments with fellow Catholics about many aspects of the Faith & Mass and whatever. I am really now at the crossroads, I am tired of being made felt deficient in my faith. I attend Mass as often as possible at least 4 times a week, used to be everyday but the Priest really. I absolutely long for the Eucharist, I love Mother, Souls in Purgatory etc etc etc. I know I am rambling, because I am now feeling lost again. I wish to be the one who Jesus loved, the little children, the simple. The Priests that I have had most problems were very well educated, wonderful preachers but absolutely hopeless human beings. I don't know I feel so sad, I am doing my best but I feel it is just not upto a standard that is expected. Love in Jesus & Mary. Hank

Thanks Doc, really interesting stuff. We need more deacons reporting on the laity. God help us!

Thank you for sharing this. Could you perhaps also someday explain the position progression and importance of the regular clergy under the Roman rite and the new order ? They seem generally disregarded. Thanks anyway as you are ever busy.

More without Tim Gordon. Not to slight TNT but I really appreciate your scholastic, contemplative approach. Almost like a one-on-one with Professor Taylor Marshall! Keep up the great work! Thank you!

The sacrament of baptism at the time of the Council of Trent was done at the separate building of the Baptistry. At the baptistry, a rite of exorcism was performed on the catechumen before the pouring of the water. Baptism had exorcism as an integral part of its form. Made perfect sense that every priest was already trained as an exorcist before heading to the major orders. And how we need more priests, all priests, to be trained to fight the devil.

I want to learn more about Catholic monasticism. I'm interested in Catholic monasticism. Maybe have a video conversation with a monk? Another thing, why don't Catholic monks grow their beards like they do in the East?

The only problem with the Catechism of Trent (and St. Thomas) regarding Holy Orders (partially solved by Pope St Pius X in his Major Catechism) is the absence of the definition of those Holy Orders which belong to the SACRAMENT OF HOLY ORDERS instituted by Christ himself. We cannot apply univocally the terms MAJOR ORDERS to the Subdiaconate, Diaconate, priesthood and Episcopacy. The Subdiaconate was instituted by the Church, not by Christ - together with the minor orders and the distinctions within the episcopacy of Archbishop, Patriarch, Cardinals, Auxiliary Bishops, Coadjutor Bishop, etc, which does not imply an ontological difference among them, they are all ontologically Bishops. As well as within the Order of Deacons the title of archdeacons, which does not imply an ontological difference, they are all still Deacons. The Diaconate, Priesthood and Episcopacy are the ONLY three degrees of the ONE Sacrament of Holy Orders instituted by Christ Himself. The relations among the three Orders within THE SACRAMENT OF HOLY ORDERS (EPISCOPACY, PRIESTHOOD AND DIACONATE) are intrinsic and ontological because of the UNITY OF THE SACRAMENT (there are not three Sacraments of Holy Orders but THREE DEGREES within the ONE and the SAME SACRAMENT . That is why the Deacon, according with the Catechism of Trent, must always stand by the Bishop, because he has an intrinsic share with the Successor of the Apostles, which the Subdeacon and the minor orders do not have. Consequently the participation to the Priesthood of the Deacon is ontologically intrinsic (from within the Sacrament of Holy Orders), the one of the Subdeacon is ontologically extrinsic (from outside this Sacrament). Dr Taylor Marshall is a Holy City of knowledge and unparalleled Formation in 360 degrees so in no way my remarks pretend to be a criticism. It is easy in a big and beautiful castle to take a couple of statues closer to a window to receive more light; the most difficult thing, which is to build the castle, has already been done. For the sake of clarity and truth it is important to expose a few things closer to the light. As Aristotle put it: We always must be loyal to the truth not to people. I like Dr. Marshall because that is how he is: Truth always first!

Maybe I'm a "romantic" of a sort, but I've always thought the tonsure was an excellent idea. I see men now, talk to them thinking they are priests only to find out they are protestant ministers. I can't pick out a priest anymore unless it's someone I actually know.

It is the most terrible tragedy of the entire Church, all over the world, by all of the Christians; that all of the parishioners, don't say Mass for themselves and families and clergy. I'm not ordained by human hands, but trust me in this, I'm Very Very Very Ordained. I taught two protestants how to say Mass in minutes. I told them that I would prove to them that this works, and at 12 PM tomorrow, they would feel a buzzing sensation going through them. "That will be God going through them as I say Mass for them at 12PM," I told them. Exact at 11:55 AM the next day, I felt a buzzing sensation going through my body, like someone was saying Mass for me. They were just believing protestants and unordained, uneducated, and believers in Jesus, Our Lord and Savior. That is all, One male and One female. About 12 years ago, I said Mass for myself, and asked God to give me the knowledge of the future. About 9 years ago, I looked right into the future to see Obama win his election by 281 electoral college votes, "three days," before the voting took place. I immediately spread it all over Twitter and sent tweets off to Nancy Pelosi, MSNBC News, Kelly O'Donnell, Obama about seeing the final vote of 281; and the tweets are still on Twitter under Gary James Shields, on that time line spoken about above. TRUST ME ON THIS ONE. You could have all of the Parishes, all over the planet, praying for you both to live another hundred years with age regressing body's. You could have some praying for you to have Angels with you to talk to, Healing Powers, the Ability to Walk in the Water, To be bullet proof, to be invisible whenever your need to be, to be able to levitate and fly, A N Y T H I N G ! ! ! 500,000,000 Masses all said on the same day for you two; and you would have snapped your fingers and things would have been done for you. There is still time. Time is of the Essence ! ! ! DON'T IGNORE ME ! I Speak from Experience, Verily. Ask me what to ask God to give to you and I will instantly pray and say Mass for you to receive it. Reply to me in this comment section, and I will do it for you. Faith is, replying to this message and telling me what you would want. The rest is up to me and God. Those who call upon the Name of the Lord, shall not be disappointed. ..............................................................

Dr. Marshall, you should do a video on the rewriting of the traditional mass and Bugnini.

Dr Marshall, could you perhaps record yourself saying those Latin prayers at a speed with which a regular English speaker can learn how to pronounce Latin properly?

Please tell me what resources you will be using for your circulum this coming year?

Hey Dr. Marshall, Doesn’t St. Ignatius of Antioch only mention Bishop, Priest and Deacon in his epistles. Since Paul VI, we commonly think of those three orders as the whole of holy orders. As you noted in your video, these are the only offices which include a laying on off hands. So are the other orders, from porter to sub deacon, considered sacraments?

9:00 Early testimonies

The IBP keeps the minor orders in their seminary. I'm not sure if it's the same for the other traditional institutes though.

Looks like the Porter also has keys in his hand. In light of the attacks on churches involving active shooters, in the news today, the reinstatement of this order might not be a bad notion, someone official to keep an eye on things regarding unauthorised persons at Mass...who gets in.

Great explaination of the Seven Orders. Just a correction to Dr. Marshall: the word "sacerdot" is pronounced "sa-cher-dot" not "sa-ser-dot". When an "e" follows a "c" the latter is pronounced with a "ch" sound (like Italian). Otherwise, great video. 🙂

I’ve seen you recommend the “Roman” catechism multiple times. What is the difference between that and the Baltimore catechism?

In the traditional Catholic Church (now) are there still minor order Exorcist? Also, what is the title of the book that was given to the minor order of Exorcist by the Bishop?

How come you are no longer posting your episodes up on spotify as podcasts? I miss being able to hear them up there. I haven't been able to keep up with your show the same since then....😢

What about Cardinals? And another question what is the history of who could be elected a pope? Did he have to be a cardinal? Do they have to be a bishop? Did he even have to be a priest?

That font is hard to read (the Pater Noster one).

"Pope Paul VI did away with that" How often we hear this phrase, unfortunately.

I've often wondered about this. At the end of mass that I attend the epistle in the gospel are set in the vernacular is that an incorrect practice by that I mean against the norms and rubrics?

Am I wrong in thinking that only friars/monks wear the tonsure today?

Do you think the minor orders and subdeacon will make a comeback? What about tonsure?

My wife being Ethiopian and a member of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewado Church enjoys all your teachings but wishes you would be more inclusive as to the Coptic and oriental rite and those orthodox churches in communion with Rome.

I was told that even the heathen priests of pagan Rome serving the temples of virgin goddesses wore a shaved head as a sign of their celibacy. So this sort of thing was not strictly unknown in the Classical world. It's interesting that this ancient Roman custom coincides with Apostolic tradition.

33:05 What are your comments on permanent deacons? From what I know, permanent deacons are deacons who are married (probably these are former pastors from protestant denominations who wanted to serve the church or keep their position I guess). However, once the wife passes on they are not to marry again. This is after Vatican 2 I believe. I just want your thoughts on this, how this came about and if my understanding is correct.

cant get the council of trent on amazon out of print . anywhere i can get it it second hand anyone??

The irish celtic tonsure wasn't triangular like you said, they shaved the temples and crown laving the back long and they tattooed their eyelids black. This was an irish celtic tradition , that they brought to the british isles (Ireland in not in the british isles btw unless your are a follower of breakspear).

The Holy Council of Trent decreed that all 7 gradients to the Sacerdotal Ministry are absolutely necessary and anybody of the contrary opinion is anathematized. So, where is the argument that Novus Ordo ordinations are valid?

Sorry. Big fan but I could ‘t let this one go. The word sacerdos is pronounced with the accemt on the middle syllable and in Latin c followed by e, i, y, æ or œ changes the c sound to a ch sound, as in chair. Sa-CHERR-dos.

Dr. Taylor, I don't think in the early Church you had the difference between minor and major Exorcists. After all "Exorcism" is a Sacramental, not a Sacrament, consequently can be performed by any man (not necessarily ordained ministers) appointed by the Bishop, as it was in the case of the minor order of exorcists. Being the Pagan world packed with possessed and oppressed people, exorcisms were a permanent work of mercy of the early Church (as we see in the Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles). We see more and more this need emerging again in the present days, going back to cult practices rooted in satanism. In the early Church exorcisms were a common practice of any disciple. Jesus entrusted the power to exorcise to the 72. In the Book of Acts, Deacon Philip performs exorcisms virtually to all the inhabitants of the city of Samaria who were into satanic bounds by Simon the Magician (when you have oficial Satanic Cults in Seattle and in every city, we can affirm we are back in Pagan times). Around the year 300 you have the famous deacon and exorcist: Saint Cyriacus - His Shrine is in Torre Le Nocelle and Fr. Michele Bianco, oficial exorcist of the Archdiocese of Benevento, received this Carisma by praying before te relics of the Holy Deacon. St Cyriacus exorcised the daughter of Diocletian and was called in different places to perform "major" exorcisms. The exorcism at Baptism should not be defined as minor because it is within a Sacrament, which is more than a Sacramental (In the Tridentine Rite you have 7 Exorcisms before the Baptism in water, In the Novus Ordo Baptismal Rite were reduced to ONE. I think that when departing from Pagan times in Catholic History, where from the second Minor Order going up everybody could perform exorcism, we lost touch with this reality of a MAJORITY of obsessed people. This reality is back and we should address it as it was in the early Church, where almost all ordained ministers were equipped and allowed to perform exorcisms. This practice remained somehow uninterrupted in the Orthodox Church, where every priest is an exorcist too. I had the privilege to be part of the prayer Team during exorcisms at Torre Le Nocelle. Here the sequence: 1) Confessions, 2) The Mass of St Michael in Latin, 3) Communion of the possessed, 4) Personal Exorcisms were performed by Fr. Michele and his team of priests, helped by laymen who hold the possessed because of violent reactions to Holy Water. 5) After 3/4 hours at close doors, those who came possessed were drinking Holy Water (there were containers across the whole shrine) with great relief (it does not mean they were all fully liberated but certainly in the process). www.patriziacattaneo.com/lang3/who_is_father_michele_bianco.html

Imagine a Priest at 52. Lol Following a 33year old rabbi is unfathomable for a lot of people

It would be much appreciated if you could talk about our Lady of Garabandal because she also have revealed a secret to the children whom our Lady had appeared. One of the children, Conchita might still be alive and currently in the US. Thank you

1 Tim: A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife... and... Let deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well. Without the prejudice to benefit and true beauty of celibacy, What is wrong with that letter to Timothy, what is wrong of beeing married priest, which is a common practise in the Catholic Church of some rites ?

If only my Deacon would stop preaching the Gospel.

Wow not even the deep and could touch the consecrated host. And only he could be an extraordinary minister and then touch the host. But it would have to be truly extraordinary circumstances. Which I'm really not sure what that would be.

This is all why altar servers should only be young males.

why not use the new Catchism f=in tour teaching?

The destruction of the minor order was a necessary step in the modernist plan to destroy the priesthood.

Pope Francis should bring back the 7 holy orders and keep its as because Seminary is a waste of time and money. Priests can't remember everything they studies or keep it pact.

What’s up with praying in Latin??

You have a fine brain. Focus on teaching. Apologetics as you call it doesn't help your spirituality.

It seems all we know of Dr Marshall is that he was an Anglican priest at one time.We have priests,prelates and Church Fathers as well as 2000 yrs of tradition to teach us these things. They have an obligation to lead the Church

I don't like Ministry China 👎😡

SHAME ON YOU!