Take the ram for the ordination and cook the meat in a sacred place. The ordination ram's meat — the portions not burned on the altar — is cooked in a sacred place and eaten by the priests. The ordination offering is not only presented to God but consumed by the priests: the sacrifice that consecrates the priests also feeds them. The sacred place where the meat is cooked is the courtyard — the same space where the priests will serve. The meal that concludes the ordination is eaten in the place of service: the priests are fed in the place where they will spend their lives serving. The eating and the serving are inseparable dimensions of the priestly vocation.

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