VOCATIONS & RECEPTION
Vocation Discernment:
Do you have a desire within to serve our Lord and his Church? Do you feel that you have a calling to the Diaconate or Priesthood? Send us an email to SocietyofPiusIX@gmail.com and include the following in your letter.- Full Name.
- Residence.
- Contact Infromation.
- Baptismal Attestation.
- Seminary Education. (transcripts or attestation of current enrollment)
- An explanation of your Calling.
Once your letter has been received and reviewed, a member from our Board will contact you for further discussion and discernment.
Reception of Clerics and Religious:
Clergyman and Religious who wish to be received into the Society may submitt a Letter of Reception Request via email to SocietyofPiusIX@gmail.com and include the following in your letter, with any and all applicable documents.- Full Name.
- Residence.
- Contact Infromation.
- Baptismal Attestation.
- Curriculum Vitae
- Seminary Education Transcripts.
- Letter(s) of Ordination, or Vows Professed.
- Attestation of Current Ministry.
Once your letter has been received and reviewed, the Rector of the Society will contact you for further discussion and discernment. We invite applications for reception from clergy and religious who uphold Catholic teaching.
Please Note:
- Bishops who apply for reception into the Society will, upon reception, function as priests for a minimum of one calendar year before an application for recognition of episcopal status can be considered.
- Since the Society of Pius IX adheres to the litirugical formularies of the catholic faith, all ordinations are confered using the Roman Pontrifical in Latin. Therefore, Conditional or sub-conditional ordination may be required for any clergyman seeking reception whose orders are in question.
Parishes and Chapels:
The following framework has been developed in order to protect parishes from corrupt bishops, inspired by the English and Celtic monastic model.
Any parish whose clergy is a member of the Society is thereby affiliated. Said parishes retain all their property, forfeiting nothing to the Society. Affiliated parishes are asked, if able, to make an voluntary annual modest tithe to support the work of the Society.
Any parish who desires to be affiliated with the Society yet does not have a clergymen may petition to be recieved. The Society will work with said parish to assign or train an interim cleric. After one year of service, the parish may petition the Society for the interim cleric to be assigned.
The Society expressly renounces any canonical prerogatives over any parish served by the clergy of the Society.
The Society expressly renounces any liability for the actions of: (1) any parish served by the clergy of the Society, and; (2) any clergy of the Society serving any parish.
The Society will provide annual clergy standards and misconduct training to all members.
The Board of Directors may instruct a member of the Society to withdraw his ministry from an independent parish in the event that the parish adopts doctrine and/or discipline contrary to received Catholic tradition, or in the event that the Board judges that the relationship between the member of the Society and the people of the parish has irretrievably broken down or has become abusive in nature. The member of the Society shall have right of appeal to the Annual General Meeting of the Society.