Monday Mass

[Love365]

Could a woman priest represent the Holy Spirit,

and celebrate Mass on Monday ?

 

[Xeno.of.athens]

Could a woman priest represent the Holy Spirit,

and celebrate Mass on Monday ?

If you mean as an ordained priest then the answer is no, if you mean in some other capacity then it depends on what the capacity is.

 

[Gregory Thompson]

Sounds "controversial"

 

[PloverWing]

In my church's tradition, female priests are free to celebrate the Eucharist on any day of the week. Sunday is obviously most common, but you'll find daily Masses in some large urban parishes.

I don't think priests presume to represent the Holy Spirit, though. Priests are human beings.

 

[Love365]

In my church's tradition, female priests are free to celebrate the Eucharist on any day of the week. Sunday is obviously most common, but you'll find daily Masses in some large urban parishes.

I don't think priests presume to represent the Holy Spirit, though. Priests are human beings.

They say male priests represent Jesus during Sunday Mass.

A woman priest could represent the Virgin Mary during Saturday Mass.

 

[Xeno.of.athens]

They say male priests represent Jesus during Sunday Mass.

A woman priest could represent the Virgin Mary during Saturday Mass.

Yes, a female can represent Mary but Mary is not the one who died on the cross and it is not her flesh and her blood that is given for our salvation nor is it her flesh and blood that is sacramentally present in the Eucharist. Blessed Mary is and always will be the mother of our Lord, Jesus Christ, and also a human being created in God's image.

 

[Love365]

A woman priest could wear blue robes.

 

[Xeno.of.athens]

A woman priest could wear blue robes.

But a woman cannot be ordained in the Catholic Church.

 

[Love365]

But a woman cannot be ordained in the Catholic Church.

I hope they will allow women priests.

 

[Xeno.of.athens]

I hope they will allow women priests.

It is not very likely, however it is not yet impossible. Pope John Paul II said this about women in the priesthood.

In his 1994 apostolic letter Ordinatio Sacerdotalis, Pope John Paul II addressed the question of women and the priesthood with clarity and finality. He wrote:

“The Church has no authority whatsoever to confer priestly ordination on women and that this judgment is to be definitively held by all the Church's faithful.”

He emphasised that this teaching is not based on cultural norms or discrimination, but on the example of Christ and the consistent tradition of the Church.​

[Source: John Paul II Definitively Said ‘No!’ to Women Priests]

 

[Love365]

Pope John Paul II allowed girls to be altar servers.

Every Pope takes one step forward.

 

[Xeno.of.athens]

Pope John Paul II allowed girls to be altar servers.

Every Pope takes one step forward.

Perhaps.
I think you may need to wait for quite a few steps, before women are ordained to the priesthood.

 

[Love365]

Could a woman priest from the Church of England,
be an altar server at a Catholic Church?

Can a male Catholic priest work with her ?

 

[Xeno.of.athens]

Could a woman priest from the Church of England,
be an altar server at a Catholic Church?

Can a male Catholic priest work with her ?

Perhaps in an ecumenical service that might happen.

 

[The Liturgist]

I hope they will allow women priests.

That would cause a schism. I am opposed to all schisms. There are already Old Catholic (Roman Catholic chucrhes that broke communion with Rome over the doctrine of Papal Infallibility defined at Vatican I; those of the Union of Utretcht are quite liberal and ordain women, while two of them, the Polish National Catholic Church and the Norwegian Catholic Church, are more traditional, and do not ordain women; there are also smaller Old Catholic jurisdictions some of which are also quite liberal) and Anglo Catholic (high church Anglican) denominations that ordain women (for example, the Scottish Episcopal Church and much of the Episcopal Church USA and much of the Church of England) and that broadly agree with your theological views in a general way.

 

[Love365]

That would cause a schism. I am opposed to all schisms. There are already Old Catholic (Roman Catholic chucrhes that broke communion with Rome over the doctrine of Papal Infallibility defined at Vatican I; those of the Union of Utretcht are quite liberal and ordain women, while two of them, the Polish National Catholic Church and the Norwegian Catholic Church, are more traditional, and do not ordain women; there are also smaller Old Catholic jurisdictions some of which are also quite liberal) and Anglo Catholic (high church Anglican) denominations that ordain women (for example, the Scottish Episcopal Church and much of the Episcopal Church USA and much of the Church of England) and that broadly agree with your theological views in a general way.

Where would it cause a schism?

Most Catholic countries support making women priests.

 

[Xeno.of.athens]

Most Catholic countries support making women priests.

Possibly, but it is hard to go against Church dogma and the matters hindering female ordination are likely dogmatic.