By solemn honor I promise:

to exercise the ministry of teaching and preaching worthily and wisely,

always preaching the true Gospel message as it is interpreted by the Church’s Magisterium,

and always teaching true and sound doctrine that is clearly and unambiguously in full conformity with
the Catholic faith handed on in the Church.

Furthermore, in my own life, in every word and deed, I will always practice what I teach and preach, not
on my own behalf, but on behalf of the Church.

By solemn honor I promise:

to celebrate faithfully and reverently, the mysteries of Christ

always and everywhere in accord with the Church’s tradition and all clear and specific liturgical laws,

so as to be in complete and absolute conformity with all mandated norms as given in the Church’s
liturgical books and rites,

for the glory of God and the sanctification

of God’s holy people.

By solemn honor I promise:

always to live my commitment to remain celibate and to live

a chaste life as an enduring sign of my love of Christ the Lord and his holy people.

In particular,

I promise always to have and to seek

only appropriate, wholesome and chaste relationships,

to observe boundaries, most especially with the young and vulnerable

and to avoid and renounce at all costs any attitudes, behavior, strategies or actions that could lead to
scandal or the endangering of any of God’s people

I promise each and every day to conform the pattern of my life ever more closely to Christ the High
Priest, who offered himself for us to the Father as a pure sacrifice.

By solemn honor I promise:

to dedicate myself absolutely and totally to being a true and

faithful shepherd of God’s holy people

and an honest and true steward of their gifts;

always acting and living in love and service of them.

In particular, I promise to avoid and renounce:

any selfish or materialistic lifestyle,

any sense of entitlement or of privilege,

and any misappropriation of the parish or Church’s

financial and material goods or property.