From the BXVI's Holy Thursday homily:
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Recently a group of priests from a European country [Austria] issued a summons to disobedience, and at the same time gave concrete examples of the forms this disobedience might take, even to the point of disregarding definitive decisions of the Church’s Magisterium, such as the question of women’s ordination, for which Blessed Pope John Paul II stated irrevocably that the Church has received no authority from the Lord. Is disobedience a path of renewal for the Church? We would like to believe that the authors of this summons are motivated by concern for the Church, that they are convinced that the slow pace of institutions has to be overcome by drastic measures, in order to open up new paths and to bring the Church up to date. But is disobedience really a way to do this? Do we sense here anything of that configuration to Christ which is the precondition for all true renewal, or do we merely sense a desperate push to do something to change the Church in accordance with one’s own preferences and ideas?
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I have trouble with this myself. JPII said God hasn't given the Church the authority to ordain women isn't true. The Holy Spirit Himself ordained Mary. Who else can incarnately say "This is My Body; This is MY Blood?"
ReplyDeleteFaith, for all her preeminence in the Church, Mary never served the Body as "in personae Christi capitus," in the person of Christ, head of the Church.
ReplyDeleteYou are right about Mary's role in giving flesh to the Son, but being a priest of the Church is a very different sort of thing.
A stray thought on ordaining women. Given the unparalleled (sp?) honor that Catholic and Orthodox traditions give to Mary, proponent of female priests ought to ask themselves why she, rather than the Apostles, was not chosen to lead the early Church?
ReplyDeleteIt's a haphazard comparison, but, the Queen of Heaven, rather like the current Queen of England, reigns but does not rule.
Although it is un-speakable in our times, the different qualities of masculine and feminine nature lie behind all this, I think. Despite the occasional exception and despite the current detour of Western feminist ideology we are all drowning in, headship, as I believe Aquinas holds, is a unique gift of the male gender. Gratia non tollit naturam...
God has given men the task of tending His flock, He has given women the honor of mothering them. Yeah, it's cheesy but so what?
ReplyDeleteSub! You're well enough to type. Hope all is well. . .
ReplyDeleteGoing real well Father as I learn patience in recovering at God's pace instead of my own. Thanks for your prayers and thoughts.
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