priestly duties
Sacerdotal office tasks
Priestly duties are the responsibilities and functions performed by priests in religious contexts—conducting worship services, administering sacraments, offering blessings, hearing confessions, and providing spiritual guidance to congregants.
The phrase often appears in discussions of religious vocation or when someone neglects these obligations: He abandoned his priestly duties to pursue a secular life.
- EucharistSacramental bread and wine
- anointingCeremonial oil application
- baptismRitual water purification ceremony
- wedding ceremonyRitual joining two spouses
- consecrationDedicating to sacred purpose
counseling · spiritual direction · confession · funeral rites · moral guidance · homily · grief support · hospital visits · ordination · visitation · absolution · pastoral care · parish life · liturgy · altar · supplication · intercessory prayer · daily prayers
- Mosaic lawMoses, Mosaic law, Ten Commandments, tablets of stone, commandment
- blood loreblood sacrifice, blood rituals, blood magic, blood oaths, blood covenant
- Temple worshiptemple priests, temple service, holy of holies, holy place, menorah
- Torah lawsTen Commandments, Sabbath observance, kosher laws, dietary laws, tefillin
- Biblical KingsDavid, King Solomon, Solomon, King Saul, Hezekiah
- Brahmanas
priestly dutiescivil duties
Obligations of citizenship
domestic chores · manual labor · office work · commercial activities