As usual, a scholarly Anglo Catholic dive into the conundrum of what we mean when we use certain words. This also occurs when fundamentalists claim Mary had children because Scripture talks about the brothers of Jesus. The issue for me is not only historical. The priest who offers the sacrifice of the Mass does so in persona Christi, this includes the fact that this unbloody re-presentation of Christ's one and only sacrifice must call into our present day Christ's incarnational humanity which by Divine will was that of a biological male, because His divine and human nature cannot be separated nor incorrectly represented. This is an historical and divine transcendent reality we have no right to modify. A female priesthood is transgenderismm in a chasuble which impudently and gnostically questions the wisdom God showed in the incarnation. The nonsense of (non existent in the sacramental realm) female priests reminds me of the (American) Thanksgiving service I played for when I was organist in a Methodist church. The female minster celebrated the "eucharist" using coffee and donuts because that's what in her progressive fantasies Jesus would have done if he lived today. She bent an historical action and reality to fit her ideology, Christianity subjected to the Procrustean bed of mythology The ordination of woman and the use of coffee and donuts for the Eucharist are connected mirror images of a distorted reality. They are the fruits of a reality that exists only in the subjective and are a- historical because facts matter little when confronted by emotion. Add to this is the utter arrogance of women who seek a role in the Church never given to Our Lady the Theotokos, who in her humility said all generations shall call me blessed and yet who, because of Christ, has more importance in the proper sense than all of the male clergy put together because of her obedience to God's will.
@hesedagape6122 I'm afraid there is not a shred of evidence of female ordination. All recent attempts to ordain women in the Orthodox and Catholic Church have not been sanctioned by any ecclesial authority and have rendered those women and those who have attempted to ordain them excommunicated.
The Ministry of Women in Christ is the Diaconate of the Church and not the Presbyterate of the Sacrament.
As usual, a scholarly Anglo Catholic dive into the conundrum of what we mean when we use certain words. This also occurs when fundamentalists claim Mary had children because Scripture talks about the brothers of Jesus.
The issue for me is not only historical. The priest who offers the sacrifice of the Mass does so in persona Christi, this includes the fact that this unbloody re-presentation of Christ's one and only sacrifice must call into our present day Christ's incarnational humanity which by Divine will was that of a biological male, because His divine and human nature cannot be separated nor incorrectly represented. This is an historical and divine transcendent reality we have no right to modify.
A female priesthood is transgenderismm in a chasuble which impudently and gnostically questions the wisdom God showed in the incarnation. The nonsense of (non existent in the sacramental realm) female priests reminds me of the (American) Thanksgiving service I played for when I was organist in a Methodist church. The female minster celebrated the "eucharist" using coffee and donuts because that's what in her progressive fantasies Jesus would have done if he lived today. She bent an historical action and reality to fit her ideology, Christianity subjected to the Procrustean bed of mythology
The ordination of woman and the use of coffee and donuts for the Eucharist are connected mirror images of a distorted reality. They are the fruits of a reality that exists only in the subjective and are a- historical because facts matter little when confronted by emotion. Add to this is the utter arrogance of women who seek a role in the Church never given to Our Lady the Theotokos, who in her humility said all generations shall call me blessed and yet who, because of Christ, has more importance in the proper sense than all of the male clergy put together because of her obedience to God's will.
@hesedagape6122 I'm afraid there is not a shred of evidence of female ordination. All recent attempts to ordain women in the Orthodox and Catholic Church have not been sanctioned by any ecclesial authority and have rendered those women and those who have attempted to ordain them excommunicated.