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...
Notre Dame where? Paris? Indiana?
ReplyDeleteParis. How intriguing!
ReplyDeleteImagine the acoustics!
ReplyDeleteWhat was the occasion? (as in, why were they having it in Notre Dame?)
ReplyDeleteOctober 14, 2012, Metropolitan Emmanuel, Exarch of the Patriarch of Constantinople in France and President of the Assembly of Orthodox Bishops, celebrated at Notre-Dame de Paris Orthodox Vespers in honor of Dionysius the Areopagite and Saint Denis, the martyr, the first bishop of Paris. Two choirs accompanied the celebration of the Greek Orthodox Cathedral Saint-Etienne and the choir of Russian Orthodox Seminary Epinay-sous-Sénart. The Orthodox were greeted at the Notre Dame Cathedral by Bishop Eric de Moulins-Beaufort, Auxiliary Bishop Paris.
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