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Sr. Vassa: There's no ontological impediment to priestesses
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...
South Bend...Indiana?
ReplyDeleteThe University of Notre Dame is in South Bend, Indiana.
ReplyDeleteAh, thanks!
DeleteIs kyrill coming also,,,,if so let us have a square off in msq,,,how many of our young people will we loose due to this intrusion on the autocephality celebrations
ReplyDeleteWhat poster of EPB is complete without a shot of kissing the pope? He really makes it too easy sometimes...
ReplyDeleteThat's the first pic but the 2nd and 4th are even more concerning. The 2nd shows him right before he devours a child and the 4th shows his gluttony as he prepares to devour a poor farmer's livestock. Has he no shame? No. No, he doesn't.
DeleteThe west coast saved from this indignity.
ReplyDelete"Apostolic Visit" seems to be apeing a certain someone's language...
ReplyDeleteDoes anyone know the actual history of the use of "Apostolic Visit" by the EP and the ancient sees of the East in general?
DeleteI can't find evidence of any other Orthodox church using it. The Syriac Orthodox patriarch does when he goes to India, but this is under obvious Roman influence.
DeleteCould we try and be bit more civil?
ReplyDeleteConsidering the gross offense the poster alone presents I think folks are being quite civil
DeleteMichael,
DeleteWhat exactly is the "gross offense" of the poster? Ecumenical Patriarchate, New Rome, and such language 1600 years old - even granting the traditional tension with Orthodoxy between "strong" and "weak" interpretations of the EP's canonical role. Irenic meetings with Popes and the like are newer, but now at least 60 years old (older than that if you included WCC, etc.) and yes, there is a tension within the Church about the real effects of these largely symbolic and "political" actions but they are certainly 'legitimate' and not heretical or against Holy Dogma per se and the sorts of things a "universal" bishop would naturally do. What exactly is "grossly uncivil" about the EP and this poster?
Meanwhile...
ReplyDeletehttps://orthodoxethos.com/post/formal-accusation-of-heterodox-teaching-by-patriarch-bartholomew-submitted-to-the-hierarchy-of-the-church-of-greece
As they say in Texas: All hat and no cattle.
ReplyDeleteIt is a marketing/sales poster that is so far beyond the sobriety and humility of a Bishop it just makes me sick.
ReplyDeleteIt is a good example of the work of an adman, no argument there.
DeleteAll modern advertising seeks to manipulate we "consumers". I wonder, where does "rightly dividing the word of Truth" come in?
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