CHAPLAIN AND MINISTERIAL SERVICES

While Scientology ministers perform many of the traditional ceremonies and services common to most religions, they also conduct services that are unique to Scientology.

Churches have always provided guidance and succor to their parishioners in times of need. In fact, beyond strictly spiritual concerns, churches traditionally have seen their mission as easing temporal suffering, helping where help is required and restoring dignity to men and women at pivotal points in their lives.

By longstanding tradition, Scientology ministers also have acted to ease suffering and provide counsel and succor to those in need, whether a member of their congregation or simply someone in the community who may need help. In fact, one cannot function as a Scientology minister without a genuine and overriding desire to help others, whether to ease current suffering or to help people advance up the Bridge. But unlike ministers and priests of other religions, Scientology ministers bring more than compassion and care to the needy—they bring a highly trained expertise in Scientology techniques that can resolve any problem at hand, no matter how insurmountable it may seem to the individual involved.

Ministerial services are important for any religion, but for individual Scientologists they take on special significance—it is by helping others that they help accomplish Scientology’s goal of making this world a better place for everyone.

CHURCH CEREMONIES

A Scientology wedding ceremony

Scientology ministers perform many of the same types of ceremonies and services that ministers and priests of other religions perform. Each Sunday, the church’s Chaplain, or another minister, conducts a weekly service for members of the church, which is open to nonmembers as well. At this service, the minister will speak about some topic related to an important Scientology principle or practice and discuss how it can be applied in daily life. A typical Scientology sermon may address the idea that a person is a spiritual being, the eight dynamics, the Axioms of Scientology or perhaps the Creed of the Church. These weekly services do much to revitalize the religious commitment of Scientologists, but they also offer hope of a better life to the non-Scientologists who are always welcome to attend.

In addition, Scientology congregations celebrate weddings and christenings with their own formal ceremonies and mark the passing of their fellows with funeral rites. The Chaplain often conducts these ceremonies, although any ordained Scientology minister can also officiate. Scientologists find that Scientology services, which address the spirit in accordance with the religion’s teachings, are uniquely suited to their needs and impart a special quality to these occasions.

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