tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6204664686568393114.post4099378392684552587..comments2023-11-02T01:43:20.189-07:00Comments on At Wisdom's End: The Other Side: The Deaconess DilemmaSamuel C Bunchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13931395216787784171noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6204664686568393114.post-28793941515723169462016-05-25T16:30:07.024-07:002016-05-25T16:30:07.024-07:00Thanks, Jack! I think it's perfectly natural ...Thanks, Jack! I think it's perfectly natural for women, especially committed and very holy women, to want to enter more fully into a priestly life. Fortunately, the priestly life is for all baptized Christians, including laypeople like me and religious brothers who are never called to the ministerial priesthood.<br /><br />http://www.nousapeiron.com/2015/02/love-it-to-death-priesthood-of-people.html<br />Samuel C Bunchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13931395216787784171noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6204664686568393114.post-66217695108330794902016-05-25T10:22:12.321-07:002016-05-25T10:22:12.321-07:00Good analysis! I think what most people miss when ...Good analysis! I think what most people miss when they come at this debate from a secular perspective is that Christ quite literally turned the power structure upside down when he instituted the Church: He who is the leader must be servant of all. Christ came to serve, to be servant of all--therefore, those who minister in His name are to be servants of all. If it's about power, then the minister/priest is missing the whole point of it all. And especially in the Catholic Church, priests don't have a lot of power; they are subject to a doctrinal magisterium that limits them on the doctrines they can teach, a liturgical calendar which designates the masses that they will say, and are subject to the will of the bishop at all times. <br /><br />I would also like to add that some holy women have had an aspiration to become priests; most notably, St. Therese of Lisieux. She sublimated her desire by praying ardently for priests and corresponding with two of them, with the permission of her superior.Jack DisPennetthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01999955744311475772noreply@blogger.com