Meet the woman who runs her Catholic parish
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- Опубліковано 17 лют 2021
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With a growing shortage of priests, some Catholic parishes are thinking creatively about alternative models of pastoral leadership. Meet Elizabeth Simcoe, a lay woman appointed by her bishop to run St. Vincent de Paul parish in Albany, NY. It's a demanding job that requires strong leadership and the ability to collaborate and listen. It's about being pastoral, which isn't an attitude reserved only for ordained priests.
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It's quite interesting that the traditional parishes don't have this problem. This is a crisis that need not have happened.
Traditional minded churches are brimming with beautiful young families, turning out vocations and are also making some money. This video is sad.
@@liberator275 why would you watch something that doesn't concern you then, just to leave a snarky comment? Go read a bible, maybe you will learn something about the numbers of believers.
@@illyb514
Thats because of polarity of worldviews in the world today. Priests turned into politicians, "traditional" church sects have aggressive approach to all kinds of libertarians and conservatives crowds, so they are able to gather some of them in, but they are hardly brimming, and they won't stay there for long. Soon enough politics will change, they will flow somewhere else. Orthodox churches in eastern europe, Russia or Greece are far more traditional than any catholic one, and they have the same problems of people stepping away.
Besides, it seems the numbers in more progressive churches are getting record high too, even more so than traditional ones, its only those in-betweens of political spectrum suffering. And I wouldnt really assume the church from the video isn't traditional, I see a lot of women sacristian in poland, and similar looking churches, and you can't say polish catholicism isn't traditional... So frankly I don't think the problem lies in that.
And the sad thing is, either one of those are more interested in politics than actual gospels and teachings of the church. Traditionalists are more into crying over the pre-v2 past, empty of any meaningful theological thought (literally nothing theologically sound came from a traditionalists in the church for the past... at least 90 years), basically pharisees of today, trying to enforce the laws, while progressive ones are more into social problems. I'd say progressive churches tend to be evangelical in the spirit, and so closer to the gospel, even tho they may have some funky ideas, like the immaculate conception, sometimes.
btw. if they go to "traditional" parish just because it's "traditional" - they have no clue about catholic theology. Priest can be the biggest raging hippy, dancing around the altar and the mass still is perfectly valid. Ask them next time why exactly are they going to the church - to listen to some conservative sermon bashing gays and stuff, which they can listen online everywhere, or to meet Jesus Christ in the flesh? Because it sounds like it's the former...
@@captainkrunch5302 Partly correct. Partly strawmen.
The reason Latin mass parishes are full is not because the Latin mass is universally appealing, but because there are so few of them that they concentrate the pool of attendees.
Furthermore, they tend to attract only a certain kind of people: that of the ultra conservative base. Thus, they pull away would be parishioners from other parishes and concentrate them in one Latin mass parish.
I live in Mayoyao, a town in the Philippines, where the priest hikes distant pathways on mountainous terrains to reach Catholic communities. In these communities, Holy Mass is celebrated once a month. What do they do then on Sundays in the absence of the priest? They hold Sunday prayer services. They are provided with a guide. Some are commissioned as communion ministers. The number of Church attendees is improving nowadays.
It is in both the bible and traditional teaching of the catholic church - NO WOMAN PRIESTS - listen carefully they went against the teachings of the church so they are automatically excommunicated from the church they no longer belonged to the Catholic faith look at them well in their vestments they look the part ,they played the part, when they die they will go straight to hell for being Rebels ,modernist ,liberals and progressivism all condemned by the church no formal proceedings is necessary there is no formal process needed, they are simply automatically excommunicated no matter how pretty no matter how good looking no matter how educated they are excommunicated and so the apostolic constitutions the dogmas of the church will prevail.
Now listen very careful !!!!!!
There is one more very important point. If you support in any way shape or form a heresy of the Catholic Church you also are excommunicated this is the teaching of the church fathers from the chair of Peter in the depository of faith in the Catholic Church supporting heresy is a mortal sin and even more you are excommunicated from the faith
So if you attend Mass and a woman is the priest even though you say you don't agree with it you don't support it the fact that you are there physically and that church the church teaches that you are guilty of heresy along with her. You and everyone in the church who attends to a woman priest will be excommunicated from the church and you will lose your faith you'll be considered a heretic and considered outside the faith you are not allowed to support heresy mentally physically intellectually or spiritually you are called to witness to what is true and your witness is an empty church a completely empty church for the woman who is a priest saying Mass. When she goes to say mass the church should be completely empty do not go to confession with her you do not get married with her you do not participate in any of the sacraments with her he is to be rejected and shunned by everyone if not you will burn in hell
Keep safe Elizabeth. The Church needs you. Praying from the Philippines🇵🇭
How kind if you. We in the USA are praying for our sisters and brothers in the Philippines. Blessings
I come from a traditional parish that celebrates the EF Mass. It's a vibrant parish with 3 priests. I think of the pastor more as the one who signs off on things. He and the other priests are dedicated to providing the Sacraments. Managing the parish finances would seem to bog them down. So the office ladies take care of things like that. Of course, the pastor is involved and makes the ultimate decisions. Do the office ladies "run" the parish? Not in the sense that they are the commanders in chief, but, like the woman in this film, they keep things moving along. But I guess the woman in this case is the commander in chief, since there is no pastor.
Vatican2 church which is on the down but the underground church is on the up
Why the crises of "aging out" is real and its causes should be intently sought out for understanding, I think every Catholic could agree and I think should agree, that the work of ministry that is the focus of this story is praiseworthy. Why? It is the work of Christ under the direction of a Bishop. Although I'm not a proponent of Latin mass myself, I think a noteworthy good has come up among some who find it an inspiration in worshiping God. That is a sense of being a member of the Church that is other than sheep under the care of a shepherd. There are many images of the Church in the New Testament and the one every Catholic needs to connect with - not we ever didn't have this need - is that of fishers of men.
The NO Mass and What happened after Vatican II is a big reason or probably the main reason why we have no Priests, no parishioners and no more belief in the real presence in the Eucharist; that being the Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ.
You find it necessary to mention that you are not a fan of the Latin Mass but you think it's good or "praiseworthy" that a lay woman is running a Parish?
You are part of the liberal modernist problem in our church and you have a lot to learn!
The NO parishes and thinking will never get any better and you are just shoveling shit against the tide till your demise!!!
Amazing woman. Bless her heart❤
Who is Sam? Is he a priest? If so, why is he being called Sam?
Excellent work Elizabeth and all those at St. Vincent’s! You have done a remarkable job keeping everyone safe during this pandemic and able to safely still maintain your outreach to those in need in the Albany area. It’s nice to see the day to day of a vibrant parish run by good leadership!
This is most parishes in the US. The priest administers the sacraments, but we know who’s really running the show. So sad...
@@eugeniovincenzo1621 The Latin Mass doesn't get magically immune from everything... Lay women may not be running the parishes fully but it's not like trad laywomen are entirely uninvolved....
@@eugeniovincenzo1621 yes, that's there role. I was referring to taking lots of action in the parish life
There are so few priests that situations like this are necessary a good amount of the time. Pray for more vocations and do things to actually build up the Church, don’t needlessly criticize what’s blessed by her bishop and allowed for by canon law.
Susan
It is in both the bible and traditional teaching of the catholic church - NO WOMAN PRIESTS - listen carefully they went against the teachings of the church so they are automatically excommunicated from the church they no longer belonged to the Catholic faith look at them well in their vestments they look the part ,they played the part, when they die they will go straight to hell for being Rebels ,modernist ,liberals and progressivism all condemned by the church no formal proceedings is necessary there is no formal process needed, they are simply automatically excommunicated no matter how pretty no matter how good looking no matter how educated they are excommunicated and so the apostolic constitutions the dogmas of the church will prevail.
Now listen very careful !!!!!!
There is one more very important point. If you support in any way shape or form a heresy of the Catholic Church you also are excommunicated this is the teaching of the church fathers from the chair of Peter in the depository of faith in the Catholic Church supporting heresy is a mortal sin and even more you are excommunicated from the faith
So if you attend Mass and a woman is the priest even though you say you don't agree with it you don't support it the fact that you are there physically and that church the church teaches that you are guilty of heresy along with her. You and everyone in the church who attends to a woman priest will be excommunicated from the church and you will lose your faith you'll be considered a heretic and considered outside the faith you are not allowed to support heresy mentally physically intellectually or spiritually you are called to witness to what is true and your witness is an empty church a completely empty church for the woman who is a priest saying Mass. When she goes to say mass the church should be completely empty do not go to confession with her you do not get married with her you do not participate in any of the sacraments with her he is to be rejected and shunned by everyone if not you will burn in hell
May God bless this woman and this parish 🙏🏽❤️💐
Amen
How are you doing
I will like to know you more
I wish the Novus Ordo was not the norm. Look at how everyone in the Church is so elderly. Should have kept the communion rail. Not to mention mass in the round. So distracting.
Altar rails went out in the 1960's. The Church will never again have the same numbers they did back then. People no longer in believe in eternal hellfire for not attending Mass that is the reason for the low numbers.
Patricia Byrne felt banners, moral relativism, and trying to make the mass appeal to Protestants. That’s why NO parishes are in all out free fall. The church will be much smaller, and it will be traditional.
It is in both the bible and traditional teaching of the catholic church - NO WOMAN PRIESTS - listen carefully they went against the teachings of the church so they are automatically excommunicated from the church they no longer belonged to the Catholic faith look at them well in their vestments they look the part ,they played the part, when they die they will go straight to hell for being Rebels ,modernist ,liberals and progressivism all condemned by the church no formal proceedings is necessary there is no formal process needed, they are simply automatically excommunicated no matter how pretty no matter how good looking no matter how educated they are excommunicated and so the apostolic constitutions the dogmas of the church will prevail.
Now listen very careful !!!!!!
There is one more very important point. If you support in any way shape or form a heresy of the Catholic Church you also are excommunicated this is the teaching of the church fathers from the chair of Peter in the depository of faith in the Catholic Church supporting heresy is a mortal sin and even more you are excommunicated from the faith
So if you attend Mass and a woman is the priest even though you say you don't agree with it you don't support it the fact that you are there physically and that church the church teaches that you are guilty of heresy along with her. You and everyone in the church who attends to a woman priest will be excommunicated from the church and you will lose your faith you'll be considered a heretic and considered outside the faith you are not allowed to support heresy mentally physically intellectually or spiritually you are called to witness to what is true and your witness is an empty church a completely empty church for the woman who is a priest saying Mass. When she goes to say mass the church should be completely empty do not go to confession with her you do not get married with her you do not participate in any of the sacraments with her he is to be rejected and shunned by everyone if not you will burn in hell
Thank you for all you do for the people in your parish and community, Elizabeth.
Thank God for Latin Mass parishes and traditional parishes that are thriving with large young families under the leadership of priests who speak the truth and help people grow in the faith. Vocations are rising in the FSSP and masses are full.
Another Traditional man who has a problem with women. How can a Latin Mass priest communicate with anyone since the Mass is in Latin?
@@patriciabyrne5089 2 ways:
People can use a missal
Or...
The priest communicates with the people by offering up the sacrificial lamb. The actions of the priest communicates with the people
Catholic from Indonesia here🙏
Wow....some spirit of the council going on there. Vibrant!
@Diego Alvarez You're right, it's more specifically the Modernism.
The Council, and the wretched Jesuits, merely transmitted it across the Church. From the looks of this video though, and God willing, maybe we have around another 20 or 30 years before it completely collapses in on itself.
Lord, bless your people who open their lives to help the Church, strengthen them, Lord, and be with them always. We also pray, Lord, for more vocations in the Church, send Your Holy Spirit to the hearts of young men and women to answer Your call to holy orders. Jesus, our Good Shepherd, bring more shepherds to feed your sheep. We ask these through Christ our Lord. Amen.
I think many priests would welcome this because they then don't need to be bogged down with administrative duties and so can spend much if not all his time ministering as an ordained for the people. Nice for the people too!
Yes. Our university did a national survey of both Parish Life Directors and the priests who collaborate with them. 77% of the priests serving in this way responded saying that they find this ministry VERY fulfilling.
Y’all keep talking crap about this woman, but I see a woman really working hard for the sake of her parish community. There is a lack of vocations to the priesthood-that’s not her fault. Her bishop gives blessing to this, why should she not be celebrated in this appointment? As she points out clearly, the role she fills is allowed for by canon law. There’s no issue here other than a bunch of people being needlessly critical-where the hell are all of you in responding to the vocations crisis?
Indeed
Maybe she could become a priest?!?
Is that really a new thing in america? Women run churches like that in Poland all the time, pretty much everywhere.
This video is well done! Congratulations! Keep up the good work.
Anyone attacking this woman should realize that what she is doing is keeping with the Code of Canon Law.
She stepped up because no one else could.
Where are the kneelers??? Do you not kneel when the Eucharist is given ??? Does not look like a Catholic Church!! Where is this sacredness?????
Looks pretty protestant and the music too, I mean it's not the center of our faith, which is Christ himself. But how can we be evangelizing the youth and the general populus with this kind of liturgical boringness.
So you guys worship on Saturday and Sunday?🥺
May God bless you.
4:35 That's so sad. The priest just looks like a minor bystander in his own parish, where HE is supposed to be the shepherd and leader of his flock. Men didn't just stop becoming priests by their own choice. They stopped discerning the priesthood when girls started serving on the altar and women insisted on inserting themselves into pastoral roles. Good, pius men have been prevented from becoming priests because they won't bow to the modernist agenda. Modernism is a cancer that destroys. I don't understand how anyone can look at this dying parish and say it's a beautiful beacon of God's light. Only 1 or 2 men in the entire congregation attending that day, and almost no one under 55. These are the folks who loved Vatican II and are angry that God isn't a woman.
When she checks her watch in the Mass... Wow. This woman is bad news.
FYI that's not the parish where he serves, however he did grow up there. Ms. Simcoe says just before their meeting that she hadn't seen him a long time and was wondering how he's doing. Full disclosure: he's our son.
@@bobbellafiore363 Thank you for your input! I'm wondering if things are any different when the regular priest is present. As the whole point of the video is to show that Miss Simcoe is running the show, I'm thinking not.
@@kerriann04 You're welcome. Elizabeth runs the parish on a day-to-day basis as there's no resident priest or pastor. Masses and other sacraments are covered by a retired priest.
@@bobbellafiore363 that's extra sad. Do you know when that happened, when there stopped being a resident pastor?
Where is the Tabernacle?
Where are the kneelers?
Where are the altar boys?
What is the your meaning on the outside Church sign? 'We practice 'courageous' hospitality?' What do you mean by 'courageous hospitality'?
Good ! Pl.keep up the spirit of catholic faith praying for you alll
She is administrative Staff, not run the Parish I think... Can she stand at Alter?
Yes she's basically the administrator. And no she's not a priest so she can't celebrate the sacraments.
God bless!
Very inspiring. Eventhough we have crisis on vocations particularly for the priest. But there are few courageous, compassionate and dedicated servant of God who are more willing to serve our Divine Master for his people. My prayers are with them. My God I pray for them. Hear our prayers
"Attentive to the needs of the people" BEST view of taking care of the people of a parish. :)
Hello 👋
A positive look at someone who is answering God's call to service. Thanks for inspiring others to follow what they are called to do despite the obstacles.
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I sure hope Sam remembers at some point HE’S A PRIEST AND NOT JUST A DUDE!
What is this nonsense?!!!
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Fr Martin would be so happy!
This is very common in areas where there is a shortage of priests. I see a lot of men angry about it in the comments...wonder how many of them are willing to join the priesthood to help combat this since it’s such an issue to them. Whole lot of talk.
Great example missing the forest for the trees.
Indeed
They also resent women having a role in the Church. They call themselves Traditional men which is a euphemism for woman hater.
Real men don't wish to be under the influence of effeminate weak men, homosexual perverts, and women, which is all the Newchurch offers... the "priest shortage" is entirely made by those seeking to destroy the priesthood by refusing traditional men entry into seminaries and ordinations..leaving parishes with second-rate perverts who see the priesthood as a free lunch ticket
Keep up the good work. The comments suggest there's a lot to do
Not one mention of the centrality of the Church. The Mass. The Eucharist. I have respect for this lady and a sense of camaraderie as I help in my Novus Ordo parish but the focus seems off here. And the service itself feels more Protestant than Catholic. That's fine if you believe in Protestantism. But Catholicism is not that. Or wasn't.
Exactly. This feels like the church of Miss Simcoe. No Christ. No focus on repentance and amending of one's life. "Just look at the woman in charge," is all I'm getting from this.
@@giovannimartini6405 This film is not about a day in the life of this parish it is about a day in the life of the woman who is the parish life director. And it's not about our style of worship. I have been a member of this church for more than 30 years, and my wife and I drive 35 minutes to get there twice a week (once for mass and once for choir practice). (Of course, that was pre-pandemic.) We go there because it is a vibrant, welcoming church, and it is not dying. Unfortunately, it was filmed during the pandemic, when the majority of us attend via electronic means, and it does not show the true nature of the congregation. Who says that kneelers are necessary for a Catholic church? In this and others that I have attended, parishoners stand during the liturgy of the eucharist. It is just as reverent as kneeling, and maybe even more so, since there are any people "half-kneeling" with their butts up against the edge of the pew. My aging knees are glad for the way we do it. Too many of the comments I see here are based on externalities and judging from a very brief glimpse into the life of this parish.
@@kerriann04 That's because you hate women Karriann
I'm surprised that you say you help in a Latin Mass Parish. Women have no role in Latin Mass unless you the cleaner of course.
@@patriciabyrne5089 you misread my comment. I am in a Novus Ordo parish but am considering the wisdom of the Tridentine Mass.
God bless her soul.
Why does she wear her mask driving alone in the car and alone outdoors? Where are the kneelers in this church? Is this parish Catholic or Protestant? It looks Protestant to me. This is why vocations and mass attendance is dwindling.
There is someone recording her... so she needs the mask.
@@lauriebarron8594 If I had a videographer riding along in my car, I would wear a mask, too. Did you think there was a drone or robot recording in there?
Wonderful parish - attended there fo 3 years when I lived there.
Love it!
Outstanding story. Beautifully filmed. We need more people like Elizabeth!
This is what the normalization of apostasy looks like in the Diocese of Albany, with Bishop Scharfenberger fully on board. A dearth of priestly vocations attests to the spiritual death rife in a diocese.
Actually, our diocese has a lot of new vocations.
This is nothing new. Many Catholic women have the faith and help and teach and guide others with it. God bless this woman. She isnt a priest and doesnt claim she is. She cant be and she should know this if shes Catholic.
not enough priests? really?
YES REALLY!!! In MANY parts of the country!!!!
There are plenty of priests. There just aren't enough good priests who want to be pastors of modernist, women-controlled churches.
And also, many good, pius men are prevented from becoming priests because they don't fall in line with the modernist agenda.
@Diego Alvarez The Modernist idea/agenda (to attempt to summarize it, which is difficult because its a many-headed hydra) is that the will of God revealed to us in part in the time before Christ to the Israelites, and in full by the Second Person of the Holy Trinity, is now insufficient to guide us morally and spiritually because "Modern" man is now enlightened and therefore the Church and its teachings need to be updated to speak and appeal to "Modern" man. The Church's previous teachings (before Modernism/the Council) were at least misguided if not oppressive and everything after it (with its "emphasis" on ecumenism, fraternity, collegiality, etc) is now....cool, hip, happening, with it, etc.
To illustrate; Jesus' absolute prohibition of divorce and affirmation of the indissolubility of marriage is a teaching that is too rigorous, cruel, mean-spirited, oppressive, etc. and therefore needs to be updated to reflect how kind, loving and generous "Modern" relationships are, by permitting the divorced and remarried without an annulment to receive Holy Communion. Even though Jesus is the Second Person of the Holy Trinity, He (evidently) didn't fully grasp the demands of mercy like Francis and his oh-so-merciful fellow Bishops/Cardinals do and he/they can/must overturn this overly-restrictive and even cruel practice.
The previous heresies were relatively narrow in scope whereas the scope of Modernism is vast, encompassing essentially every single aspect of the Church's teaching. To the Modernist, there is not a single aspect of the Church's teachings, disciplines and customs that should not be updated, even those teachings which come from the Apostles and even the very person of Our Lord Jesus Himself.
Another illustration: the very explicit condemnations of h-word behavior by St. Paul are (like Jesus' teaching on divorce) also rigorous, overly demanding, even cruel, therefore they too should be overturned.
My apologies if this sound flippant or disrespectful but the Churchmen who have are are now engaging in this are attacking the very foundations (were it possible) of the Church and its God-given mission to bring about the salvation of sinners and help them make it to Heaven. They simply do not care about doing what they should to help people obtain salvation and eternal life. Instead, they have more important priorities like environmental and social justice, correct immigration policies, and how to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
Hope this is of some use. May the peace of Our Lord be with you and your family.
There's not enough priests in the modernist era but the FSSP is growing. Our archdiocese is growing with strong men who are restoring tradition with Diocesan seminaries
She could never institute the Holy Eucharist. No woman could. A woman can never replace a Catholic ordained priest (who is a man in Persona Christi.) Sad story right here. It takes away a lot and is worth doing more information on a church like this to see what’s going on.
Did you watch the video? She's an administrator not a priest
Catholism is false anyway. Who cares they do PRAY TO A MARY AND speak to demons they assume are saints in heaven. Lol
Religion and IGNORANT
@@TriciaRP We don't care what prots have to say of the Early Church fathers...
Good video! Elizabeth is one of about 200 people serving parishes in this role around the country. It's a good model that meets a need - perhaps in the future more bishops will be open to using this model.
Yeah, bishops who want to close more churches due to loss of parishioners should use this model.
@@kerriann04 Are you suggesting that using Parish Life Directors causes parish membership to go down? Actually, the data doesn't show that. The parishioners usually adjust to this model quickly and the membership sometimes even goes up. Both CARA at Georgetown and my university, Cardinal Stritch University, have researched this.
I think you're missing the point of going to Mass.
@@kerriann04 Really? I suppose it's possible, though I have no idea how you can make that judgment just from my comment.
@@kerriann04 Our Mass is not over at the end of the liturgy---Note: Go in peace to love and serve the Lord! Exactly what this woman is doing!
Look, I don't particularly have an issue with women being involved by helping around the parish but I don't see the priest anywhere. The only time the priest is really around helping and leading the parish is during the sacrifice of mass or greeting the people. He needs to be doing something too within the parish.
The whole point is that there is no priest who works at the church!
You don't see the priest cause the focus of the video was about the woman? If you want to see a video about a priest there's a lot out there. You clicked on a video about a woman who is the administrator in her parish (which is the case in a lot of parishes ) so that's what you 'll get.
@@johnvictorroderos8842 the video is about a parish run by a lay woman when the priest should always be the one running the parish. Even during whatever meetings or activities outside the mass, you don't even see the priest in the background
@@johnvictorroderos8842 Not another man who has a problem with women! The point is there is no priest in that parish. Do you really think the Catholic Church would allow a woman run a parish if they weren't desperate?
This is a good example of what parishes can do in face of the shortage of priests. May Elizabeth Simcoe's work inspire others.
Thank yo for your service to the church. Is "Sam" a priest? If so please call him father.
“Be Not Afraid” for Entrance Chant at a funeral. “Yeah, a favorite.” Weak composition impossible to sing written rhythm.
Why don’t parish leadership know there are Proper Chants for Entrance, Offertory and Communion already appointed by the Church for use in the Liturgy? Continued use of mediocre music drives people away from Liturgy.
You should check out the book "Why Catholics Can't Sing." It's quite enlightening and talks about this very issue - unsingable hymns that permeate the modern US church.
@@kerriann04 I have read the first edition years ago. I understand there is a revision.
This parish shimmers and shines with the vibrant light of Christ. Elizabeth is incredible and the people of this parish are a testament to living faith. I am privileged to know Elizabeth and many parishioners past and present. We could all take a lesson from what happens here. I have been praying with this scripture a lot recently and it seems appropriate here: "See, I am doing something new!
Now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? In the wilderness I make a way... " Isaiah 43:19
They should have given this position to a person of color. She is actively part of the racist system.
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If we are more obedient and if we have more faith in God than in human, our Church would have more priests and success. People want more truth believers not more people who tamper with faith... Like Jesuit does
Lame...
Gen Z will fix this with TLM!
Lot's of un Christian comments here. Read Luke 18; 9-14
I'm sure she's a very nice lady, but the actual Pharisees are the Modernists who are the judgemental ones: "so-and-so is a very nice person so he/she is obviously going to go to Heaven".
The reality is that we have no capacity to make judgements like these because elsewhere in Holy Scripture it states "ALL have sinned, ALL have fallen short of the glory of God". Therefore all of humanity desperately needs what the Church *should* be offering; repentance, amendment, and conversion. Instead, what probably 99% of our clerics are offering is universal salvation, and concerns with political matters like climate and social justice. They hide the light of Jesus' salvation under a bushel, as though they are ashamed of it.
The peace of Our Lord be with you and your family.
@@andrewrolwes6034 like you
Gets in car with mask on is when I stop watching.
Maybe because of the cameraman
They will be taking confession next
Wonderfully pastoral manner of handling her position!
Perhaps this is an example of what a female priest would be doing. For any denomination to not recognize the ministry of women is not Biblical at all. Looking at Romans 16:1-2, Phoebe was the minister at a local church in Chenchrae near Corinth on the Mediterranean.
May God Bless her in everything she continues to do.
Miss Monique 🙂🌷🙏
God wills that Men be the heads of the church and the family. Tradition must be restored.
Church fully alive.... every Christian has a gift from the Spirit to build up the Church. Inspiring.
0 young and growing families. sad.
So this can be done and it's allowed by our Catholic Church? Maybe we need some more of this kind.
This video suggests to me how the early church may have operated. The Catholic Church brings a different culture to the Spiritual Community. Maybe getting away from the sacrements to developing community is the way to go?
Idk why people would dilute sacraments to develop a community. The most vibrant and growing parishes in my country are the ones which uphold the Sacred Traditions. Communities grow naturally out of the love for the Sacraments.
@@sillybearss You raise an interesting question. Did the sacraments exists in the early church (i.., the church in the Book of Acts) or are they a development that occurred afterwards?
Mert.
We need the grace of the sacraments. Community can also be a grace. But they won't get us to heaven. We can encourage one another but we need Jesus and the sacraments he established.
@@christusvincit6696 Where does it say in the Bible that sacrements are necessary for salvation? The sacrements is one way for the laity to interact with the priesthood. A person who goes to church once a year may eventually stop going. A person who goes to daily mass, prays the rosary in community, goes to confession, and is highly engaged with the church community will probably remain with the church.
@@mertmolina8312 "Amen, amen I say unto you: Except you eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, you shall not have life in you." John 6:53
This is not catholic 😳😬
I don't understand why not. She is going to Board meetings, monitoring finances, meeting with parishioners. She isn't saying the Mass. In the 5 decades I have been alive, this has been allowed in the US church.
It is in Canon Law. Get over your sexist views.
She cannot be ordained there for she can't have a parish.
What do you expect from new york...
She's a good shepherd.
She =/= shepherd.
@@eugeniovincenzo1621 why is a Latin Mass parish giving communion on the hand?
@@kerriann04 I think he meant no communion in the hand. I thought the same thing for a split second
the Shepard should always be the priest
@@kerriann04 It's not a Latin Mass parish, if it was the building would look like a church.
This is so sad...
It is not sad. She does a wonderful service to our parish.
Not sad at all - this vibrant community shimmers with the light of Christ!
The light of Christ in a parish doesn't cause it to age out and die.
disgraceful.
Sam.... Father would be my choice of words .. she's the administrator of the church...
Sam... My goodness
This woman has no Authority!!!!!
You know, except that her role is by her bishop’s appointment and is allowed for under canon law.
@Irina Popa ITS A PANDEMIC!!! USE YOUR BRAIN!!!
@Irina Popa you can’t help that people don’t come to church. You can influence them and love them all day long but to get them out of bed and come to church isn’t always easy.
@Irina Popa As is obvious from the people wearing masks and when it was released, this was filmed in the middle of the pandemic. This was the maximum amount of people that were allowed in the church by state regulation at the time of this filming.
Another woman who hate women
That parish is dying. Does she realize that? She should work at the food pantry and volunteer but should not be in charge.
And who'll lead the parish? Ministry in the church is volungeer driven. She said in the video there are FOUR full time workers in the parish. Only four. In a parish that serves 50 zip codes that's awfully not a lot. Sure the priest can be the administrator, but what would that achieve? Nothing. As sad as it may be this was their onky choice - have the priest serve the sacraments, have her do the admin duty
Why? Because she is woman? You have been corrupted with the thought that says women are unworthy and inferior. This is from men and not from God
She should be calling the priest Father and not by his Christian name.
not good....
Hello 👋
Despicable, thank Almighty God for the restoration of Tradition.
She an administrator, not a priest. There's nothing wrong with this. Remember to love your neighbour. We're on church
@@johnvictorroderos8842 women shouldn't be administrating much outside the dairyshed
@@myrmidonesantipodes6982 Why are you hiding behind a pseudonym you thick Paddy?
all I see are old retired people killing time.
This is terrible, how do the bishops allow this place to stay open. No respect for God in this “parish”
Bishops are weak, scared or part of the problem.
Horrible-
She talks about respect and then calls the priest by his first name Sam disregarding his title of priest. Vary shameful.
Did it ever occur to you that maybe he doesn't regard himself as so above peole that he demand they treat him as superior to them? Do you adress your friends by their job titles or use their names in conversation.
Just ordains a woman and we wouldn’t have a shortage of priests
This is why we need women priests
No Bob no we don't need women priests. You are so wrong.
Nope. I'm a Catholic woman. I totally disagree. That is not how Jesus set it up. Men and women have equal dignity and value, different gifts and responsibilities.
Women priests cannot perform valid sacraments. Christ appointed men to head his church, hence why only men were invited at the last supper. Men can carry on apostolic succession which is critical for valid sacraments.
That church is horrible.
How can you possibly say that. You should search your heart and see who is controlling you right now