Is the male-only priesthood a discipline or essential to the nature of being a priest? Sr. Vassa (again unflinchingly taking up a contentious topic by climbing up the ladder to the highest platform and then jumping into the deep end head first) dives right in and says there is no reason beyond personal preference to not have female clergy. You know, when people ask me about women in priesthood, they say, 'Sister, why can't women be priests?' And I say, 'Women CAN be priests. We don't WANT them to be priests.' Because you see, God can do anything, and the Church, by divine authority, uh, can do anything, but, the Church doesn't want to - and that's a legitimate reason. What I don't like is when we TRY to pretend that there are other reasons for this, because it's legitimate not to want something, and there are reasons not to want this - right? - but, we shouldn't pretent that there's some... reason, that, for example, the maleness...
so our bishops in the usa have been meeting how long?????? and what have they accomplished ??????? Kudo's to Copts for teaching the Eastern Orthodox as how to do it correctly. they mean business and are taking the ministry of st paul to heart,,,,,,we are still bickering amongst each other as to who is or is not canonical,,,,,,, if we do not wake up we all will be under the coptic bishops and if so, it will be due to our pettyness and blindness --- the copts are making a committment of being part of the fabric of the countries in which they reside in the diaspora --- we eastern orthodox are waiting to go back to our hime countries --- shame on us for letting the coptics one up us. i have always been imoressed by their ministry here in the usa -- may God bless them-- they deserve the blessings
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