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8 S. Thomas tells us that ordination impresses a character, and that the character is a spiritual and indelible sign or seal, by which the soul is marked for the exercise of the acts of divine worship, and for the teaching of the same to others. The priesthood of Christ is the source of all divine worship. All the faithful are conformed to Christ by the character impressed upon them in Baptism and Confirmation: and priests also in Ordination. But in Christ Himself there was no character, because He is the examplar and type of all characters; for Christ is the Character or Figure of the Father, and all divine perfection is in Him, of which the character in us is