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...
There's more than what meets the eye here. This cathedral is part of the uncanonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Kiev Patriarchate, who's "Patriarch" was deposed from the canonical Russian Orthodox Church and was excommunicated. His church, his followers are helping to fuel the extremist Ukrainian nationals at the heart of the violence. This cathedral and false church is aiding violence and stoking the flames of illegal and ungodly revolution!
ReplyDeleteYou mean the hundreds of thousands demonstrating are part of an "ungodly revolution." You should read this article from The Washington Post by Anne Applebaum (a non-Ukrainian): http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/anne-applebaum-ukrainian-smears-and-stereotypes/2014/02/20/450b8d62-9a72-11e3-b88d-f36c07223d88_story.html
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