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This quantity deals a conceptual and empirical research of the spiritual career. It takes as its aspect of departure professionalisation concept that's mentioned and utilized to a career in mainstream faith, for that reason Dutch Catholic ministry. The publication includes a well-documented empirical examine of attitudes of clergy and lay body of workers within the Dutch Roman-Catholic Church concerning the pastoral occupation. Their attitudes in the direction of church authority, apostolicity, sacramental efficacy, accession to the place of work, and non secular position are defined commonly. The study clarifies the level to which those spiritual attitudes act as a good or unfavorable motif to interact in regulations which are geared toward a certified improvement of the profession. The e-book bargains a very good perception into uncomplicated features of a non secular occupation.
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The next point of interest is the extent to which religiosity varies according to to the pastor’s ecclesiastic position. Deacons and, to a lesser extent, priests differ from pastoral workers in that they display more pastoral devotion. The same distinction does not apply to frequency of religious experience, while pastoral workers report significantly more frequent mystical experiences than priests or deacons. Finally, we established that deacons and, to a lesser extent, pastoral workers differ from priests in that they consider love a significantly greater source of religious experience (table 14).
For that we turn to the codex of the Roman Catholic Church which describes the conditions of pastoral work. The codex distinguishes between ecclesiastic ministry in a strict and in an extended sense. In its strict sense it presupposes ecclesiastic ordination or jurisdiction; in its extended sense it can include any service with a spiritual aim. This latter meaning is also adopted by Vatican II, which defines ecclesiastic ministry as follows: ‘An ecclesiastical office is any post which by divine or ecclesiastical disposition is established in a stable manner to further a spiritual purpose’ (CIC 145, §1); ‘.
Pastors express their faith mainly through reading and prayer. To 90% of them reading religious writings is expressive of spirituality; in the case of Bible reading the percentage is 77. Prayer before and after meals is considered to express spirituality by 85%, prayer at other times of the day by 60% and counting the rosary by 17%. Fourteen percent of pastors experience confession as a religious expression. Very few pastors experience non-Christian religious exercises, such as yoga (3%) or Zen meditation (4%), as expressing their spirituality (table 10).