Women Priests Celebrate Jubilee for Priests in Rome with Women's Ordination Worldwide today "Women's Ordination Worldwide Meets and Marches in Rome" by Traci Badalucco National Catholic Reporter,

http://ncronline.org/news/people/womens-ordination-worldwide-meets-marches-rome

Women Priests Janice Sevre Duszynska ARCWP with sign Women Priests are here and
holding banner on left and on right Christina Moreira ARCWP holidng banner on far right side

Janice Sevre Duszynska ARCWP and Christina Moreira ARCWP hold banner in Rome demonstration today
as Worldwide Ordination Meets and marches in Rome. 

Advocates for the ordination of women to the Roman Catholic priesthood marked the 20th anniversary of the founding of their movement in Rome with a three-day conference that culminated today with a pilgrim's walk down the Via della Conciliazione to St. Peter's Square.

Irish priest Tony Flannery joins WOW leaders in Women's Ordination Worldwide March today

Women's Ordination Worldwide, or WOW, a coalition of international groups supporting women's ordination, hosted the meeting and march in Rome to urge church leaders to re-open a dialogue on the question of ordaining women, which Pope John Paul II closed 22 years ago with publication of his apostolic exhortation Ordinatio Sacerdotalis, "on reserving priestly ordination to men alone."

Christina Moreira ARCWP holds Women Priests banner at Demonstration in Rome

The "Open the Door to Dialogue" conference June 1-3 coincided with the Vatican's Jubilee for Priests and Seminarians, part of the official celebrations marking Pope Francis' Jubilee Year of Mercy.

"We thought that the Jubilee for Priests was a perfect time to really give an offering and a celebration for all women called to priesthood," said Kate McElwee, co-executive director of the Women's Ordination Conference, the U.S.-based member of WOW. "We really wanted to have this as a celebration and a serious conversation of women in the church."

The centerpiece of the "Open the Door to Dialogue" conference was a five-person panel discussion and a question and answer period in Rome June 1 at the Casa Internazionale delle donne, a center for feminist movements, located just steps down the Tiber river from the Vatican.

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Almost 60 people attended the two-hour panel discussion, which included people with professional and personal experience with women in ministry.

One panel member, Tony Flannery -- an Irish Redemptorist priest who was removed from active ministry* in 2012 for his support for female priests -- compared the church's current stance on women's issues to the Middle Ages.

"I am becoming increasingly convinced that the inequality of women is becoming a major issue and a major challenge facing the Catholic church, and, unless addressed, [the Church] will continue becoming more sidelined and little more than a sect," Flannery told NCR.

Pope Francis' recent announcement that he would create a commission to study the history of female deacons in the Catholic church -- a hot button topic among members of the church -- was also brought to the table Wednesday, June 1. Flannery offered only positive feedback to the announcement. If women eventually are ordained as deacons, he said, parishioners will no longer distinguish between males and females performing liturgies on the altar. "They wouldn't see a significant difference. I think it would be a big step forward."

Panelist Jamie Manson, who is NCR's book editor and a columnist, offered a different perspective. "The establishment of women deacons, I think, runs the risk of being a compromise that ends up trapping women in a role in which they will continue to be subservient to men, particularly in service to priests," she said.

Panelist Marinella Perroni, a professor of the New Testament at Pontifical University of St. Anselmo in Rome, offered three points during her introduction Wednesday, including the ecclesiology of the Second Vatican Council, which "brought to light the necessity of re-thinking the theology of Catholic ministry," she said.

"I was always convinced that the church of Vatican II must come to de-clericalize ordained ministry, liberating it from the weight of sacrifice. Instead, the terror of a possible Protestantization of the Catholic church has blocked the reception of Vatican II and radicalized the theology of ministry as the stereotypical post-Tridentine ones," Perroni said. "Personally, therefore, I would prefer that women would aspire to ordained ministry rather than priesthood.

The Rev. Dana English, a panelist and assistant curate at All Saints' Anglican Church in Rome, called Perroni's remarks "extraordinary."

English, who's been ordained for 32 years, told NCR that open dialogue -- like the one the conference presented -- is a necessary step in continuing the presence of women in the public eye.

"If the voices continue to be clear and loud and frequent, both by presence and by voice, I think this issue can continue to sink into the public consciousness," said English. "The traditional structures are going to have to break down in the next 10 to 20 years."

Italian photographer Giulia Bianchi, also a panelist at Wednesday's conference, has spent the past three years photographing more than 70 excommunicated female priests -- work that has taken her as far as New Mexico and Colombia.

Bianchi's photographs, titled "Women Priests Project," have been printed as three-foot bill posters and are on public display around St. Peter's Square and the Trastevere district in Rome. The posters are to be on display until June 8.

Her work is more than just a picture, she said, but instead a call to women to break down the barriers created by society.

"The women priests are fine. They don't need my help. They don't need my photographs. I do my work for women that aren't empowered ... That think they aren't as good as a man," Bianchi told NCR. "There is nothing more important for spiritual people then to feel their spirituality is as big and as mystic and as profound as the spirituality of the man."

About 20 people gathered Friday in Piazza Pia at the far end of the boulevard that runs into the plaza outside St. Peter's Basilica, where a Mass for the Jubilee of Priests was beginning. The Women's Ordination Worldwide supporters dressed in purple stoles -- a symbol of women's ordination -- and carried signs that read, "Women priests are here." They also had a cardboard replica of a telephone booth that was labeled, "Door to dialogue."

WOW organizers had a permit for their demonstration, making it, they say, the first legal demonstration for the group in Rome.

"We walked down the pilgrim's path toward St. Peter's and joined the Mass for priests," McElwee toldNCR. "However, the women priests with us had their stoles and signs taken away, as well as our leaflets and pins."

Two articles in Spanish:

La primera mujer sacerdote española

http://www.elmundo.es/sociedad/2016/06/03/5751806fca4741750a8b45fa.html

Roma concede permiso a una manifestación a favor del sacerdocio femenino por primera vez

http://www.elmundo.es/sociedad/2016/06/02/57504375268e3e3a0e8b45e2.html

www.arcwp.org

Francis at Jubilee for Priests: Priests Aren't Boss, Should Walk Side by Side with Their Flocks, Roman Catholic Women Priests Agree!

http://ncronline.org/blogs/francis-chronicles/francis-priests-arent-boss-should-walk-side-side-their-flocks

Bridget Mary's Response: Amen, Pope Francis, Women Priests believe that our place is side by side with the people at peace rally at SOA Watch and  at our liturgies. ! We are living Gospel equality now in our renewed priestly ministries and inclusive and inclusive communities.
www.arcwp.org

Upper Room Community in Albany, New York, Mary Theresa Streck ARCWPand Kathie Ryan ARCWP

Mujeres que militan por ordenación sacerdotal son recibidas en el Vaticano

http://www.laprensa.hn/mundo/966443-410/mujeres-que-militan-por-ordenaci%C3%B3n-sacerdotal-es-recibida-en-el-vaticano

Mujeres que militan por ordenación sacerdotal son recibidas en el Vaticano

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El sumo pontífice aceptó el mes pasado crear una comisión que podría llegar a conclusiones favorables para el diaconado femenino.

Según Janice Sevre-Duszynska, ella y otra sacerdote mujer fueron recibidas por un ‘alto responsable’ de la secretaría de Estado, órgano central de la curia. AFP

Roma. AFP

Dos líderes de una organización que militan por la ordenación de mujeres en la Iglesia católica fueron recibidas en el Vaticano, coincidiendo con el Jubileo de los sacerdotes en Roma, informó el viernes una portavoz del movimiento.

Según Janice Sevre-Duszynska, ella y otra sacerdote mujer de la Women’s Ordination Worldwide (WOW) fueron recibidas por un “alto responsable” de la secretaría de Estado, órgano central de la curia. Le entregaron una petición en la que le piden al papa Francisco entablar un diálogo y levantar las excomuniones contra las personas que militan en la Iglesia a favor de esta causa.

La ordenación sacerdotal de las mujeres no figura en el programa del papa. Aunque el sumo pontífice aceptó el mes pasado crear una comisión que podría llegar a conclusiones favorables para el diaconado de las mujeres.

Para celebrar su propio “jubileo de las mujeres sacerdotes”, paralelamente al gran Jubileo de los sacerdotes que reúne a 6.000 pastores del mundo entero en el Vaticano entre el 1 y el 3 de junio, la WOW se reunió discretamente en la “Casa internationale delle donne” en el barrio de Trastevere.

Un grupo de mujeres ordenadas ilegalmente se reunió el viernes por la mañana frente a Castel San Angelo y fue hasta la Plaza San Pedro, donde se mezcló con la multitud que asistía a una misa por el Jubileo de los sacerdotes.
“Hay hasta 200 mujeres ordenadas en el mundo (…). La inmensa mayoría ejerce hoy en Estados Unidos”, dijo a la AFP una mujer sacerdote, Christina Moreira, ordenada el año pasado, y que ejerce en La Coruña, en España.

Aunque no esperan un cambio en la línea adoptada por el papa en cuando a la ordenación de las mujeres, aplauden el cambio de tono que se ha producido dentro de la Iglesia, donde ahora ya no está prohibido evocar este tema como antes, afirman.

http://www.laprensa.hn/mundo/966443-410/mujeres-que-militan-por-ordenaci%C3%B3n-sacerdotal-es-recibida-en-el-vaticano

At the Vatican for Jubilee for Women Priest: First Roman Catholic Woman Priest from Spain: Christina Moreira ARCWP Interviewed

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Cristina Moreira, la primera española que ha sido ordenada ‘sacerdote’. MÒNICA BERNABÉ

Las mujeres ‘sacerdote’ de la Iglesia Católica -125, una de ellas española- se manifiestan en Roma y le piden al Papa que les levante la excomunión
MÒNICA BERNABÉRoma
03/06/2016 15:06No viste un disfraz, sino que es sacerdote y ejerce como tal. Y además, en A Coruña. Se llama Cristina Moreira y es la primera y única mujer española que ha sido ordenada presbítero, respetando la “sucesión apostólica”, asegura ella. Pero eso sí, saltándose a la torera el derecho canónico, que establece que sólo un hombre puede celebrar la eucaristía. Forma parte de la Asociación de Mujeres Sacerdotes Católico Romanas (ARCWP, en sus siglas en inglés), un colectivo que promueve la igualdad de derechos de hombres y mujeres dentro de la Iglesia Católica, y que en 2002 ordenó a las primeras siete mujeres sacerdote. Lo hizo en el río Danubio.”Las diócesis funcionan territorialmente, pero el río Danubio no es territorio de ningún obispo. Por eso las primeras ordenaciones se hicieron allí, para evitar invadir el espacio de ningún prelado”, justifica madre Cristina. Por eso, y por el gran simbolismo que el agua tiene en el cristianismo. “Es fuente de vida, de renovación”, detalla la sacerdote. Las ordenaciones las hizo un obispo varón. De ahí que madre Cristina asegure que han respetado la “sucesión apostólica” en todo momento.”Para ser presbítero, te tiene que ordenar alguien que haya seguido la línea de los apóstoles. Es decir, que fuera ordenado por Pedro, primero, o por el resto de los apóstoles. Y así sucesivamente. Y nosotras, esa línea la hemos seguido”, aclara la madre Cristina que, sin embargo, no quiere desvelar el nombre de ese primer obispo varón que se saltó el derecho canónico, pero que ordenó a las primeras mujeres sacerdotes según los ritos de la Iglesia Católica. “Es cierto, no tenemos la autorización canónica”, admite la religiosa. “Pero nosotras no estamos de acuerdo con el canon 1024 del derecho canónico que establece que sólo un varón puede ser ordenado sacerdote. La Biblia no dice eso por ninguna parte”, argumenta.Cristina fue ordenada diácono en A Coruña en 2013 por una mujer obispo. Y dos años más tarde, en 2015, llegó al sacerdocio, pero para ello tuvo que trasladarse a Florida, ya que en la actualidad sólo hay una decenas de mujeres obispo en todo el mundo. En cambio, las mujeres sacerdote que forman parte de la ARCWP suman más de ciento veinticinco. La reacción del Vaticano ante estas ordenaciones fue excomulgar a todas ellas. “Este es el año del Jubileo de la Misericordia, del perdón. Hemos venido a pedirle al Papa Francisco que nos levante la excomunión”, explica madre Cristina, que se ha trasladado desde A Coruña a Roma para precisamente eso. “¿Qué mal hemos hecho? Dar la eucaristía no es nada malo, y ayudar a quienes lo necesitan, tampoco”, afirma.Ellas y otra sacerdote de ARCWP, Janice Sevré-Duszynska, se reunieron el miércoles con un representante de la Curia y le entregaron un escrito dirigido al pontífice con dicha y otra petición: que Francisco abra un diálogo con ellas. “Más de ochenta comunidades pastorales dependen de nosotras, y podemos ser fuente de inspiración para dar un vuelco a la vieja Iglesia, que tanto necesita un lavado de cara”, declara la religiosa.Las dos sacerdotes y activistas de la organización Women’s Ordination Conference (WOC) -otra asociación católica que defiende el mismo objetivo- protagonizaron este viernes una protesta en los jardines de Sant Angelo, a unos centenares de metros del Vaticano, a favor de que las mujeres puedan ser ordenadas sacerdote en la Iglesia Católica. La protesta fue bastante desangelada -apenas asistieron una quincena de mujeres-, pero relevante. Es la primera vez que se autoriza una manifestación de este tipo en la capital italiana. Miembros de la WOC habían intentado llevar a cabo acciones similares en Roma en otras ocasiones, pero siempre habían sido reprimidas por las fuerzas del orden.Todas las activistas vistieron de color negro -emulando el color de la sotana de los curas-, y algunas se presentaron con alzacuellos. “Un Jubileo para las mujeres sacerdotes”, se podía leer en los folletos que repartían a los viandantes, muchos de ellos curas. Se da la circunstancia que estos días se celebra en el Vaticano el denominado Jubileo de los Sacerdotes, y más de seis mil curas de todo el mundo se han trasladado a la capital italiana.Tras la protesta, las mujeres participaron en una misa en la basílica de San Pedro, con motivo del Jubileo de los Sacerdotes. Las fuerzas del orden les requisaron las pancartas y los folletos a la entrada, y las vigilaron durante toda la celebración.

http://www.elmundo.es/sociedad/2016/06/03/5751806fca4741750a8b45fa.html

"Holy Mystery" ..."In this moment we are one" by Monica Brown, Be Inspired, Nourish your Soul

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijFxTGeXvUk&feature=youtu.be

"Why Is the Vatican Now Letting Advocates of Women’s Ordination Hold a Demonstration in its Back Yard?" Is Pope Francis Moving from Condemnation to Conversation with the Roman Catholic Women Priests Movement? Bridget Mary Meehan

http://www.praytellblog.com/index.php/2016/06/02/why-is-the-vatican-now-letting-advocates-of-womens-ordination-hold-a-demonstration-in-their-back-garden/
Bridget Mary's Response:
I believe in the power of prayer and that faith moves mountains.
Some people say I wear rose colored glasses!

 I think the Vatican may be moving from condemnation to conversation with our movement. Now that would be a blessing.

On Tuesday Janice Sevre Duszynska ARCWP and Christina Moreira ARCWP shared  the warm reception they received from a Vatican official when they delivered the groundswell petition of support for women priests signed by Catholics. 

Christina Moreira ARCWP and Janice Sevre Duszynska ARCWP deliver Groundswell Petition in Support of Women Priests
https://action.groundswell-mvmt.org/petitions/pope-francis-welcome-all-priests#

This is a first ground-breaking step that could lead to an open dialogue with Pope Francis about lifting the excommunication and punishments against members and supporters of our Roman Catholic Women Priests Movement. 

The Vatican permission for a Women's Ordination Worldwide demonstration tomorrow when Pope Francis is celebrating the Jubilee for Priests is another pleasant surprise. 

In addition, several weeks ago, Pope Francis announced  a commission to study women deacons, which could be the first step towards the full equality of women including in ordained ministry and in decision-making roles in the church.

My prayer is that these steps may indicate a movement toward a more inclusive, just church where all are equal, all voices are heard, and all affirm the primacy of conscience. 

Bridget Mary Meehan ARCWP
www.arcwp.org

Homily at Holy Spirit Catholic Community, 10 OTC, June 5, 2016 Beverly Bingle RCWP

Scripture scholars agree that Luke created
the story about the widow of Nain in today's Gospel.
Fr. Reginald Fuller, for example, calls it
a “story that has little historical basis.”
What Luke was doing was shaping
the story of the widow of Zarephath
to show Jesus as surpassing Elijah in his role as prophet
and in his compassion for the vulnerable and oppressed.
Luke makes it clear in the response of the crowd:
"A great prophet has arisen in our midst," he has them say.
"God has visited this people," he has them say.
__________________________________________
This story is really not about resuscitation.
The miracle is not raising someone from the dead
but bringing life to those who are dead to the life they have.
All three of today's readings point to rebirth and new life.
They tell us clearly
that our God is the God of life, the God of the living.
The widow in Zarephath was trapped
in the idea that her own sin
was the reason her son was sick unto death.
Paul was trapped
in a legalistic following of his ancestral traditions.
The widow in Nain was trapped
in the social structures
that made her as good as dead without a man to belong to.
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So these stories are about metanoia, a turning around,
a change in perspective and belief.
The widow of Nain, without a husband, without a son,
is weak and defenseless
in the culture of that first century patriarchal society.
Jesus' compassion turns her situation around,
and the crowd sees his action clearly.
They see his compassion for her,
and they understand the oppressive system
that would render her destitute.
They had taken for granted
the oppression of their culture and its systems
to the point that it was invisible to them,
but Jesus' action makes it visible.
Once they see the systems that diminish their lives,
they also see the possibility of change and choice.
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Like so many of the scriptures,
this story gives us a vivid metaphor
for life-changing, life-defining experiences.
The widow's son is dead,
and he is brought back to life.
The widow faces the death of poverty and exclusion,
and she is brought back to life.
The crowd recognizes
that they have been victimized by a brutal government
that ruled with the cooperation of the rich and powerful
of their own religion.
They been like the walking dead.
__________________________________________
We've all been there.
It can start with an assumption that turns out to be false.
Like how much money we need.
So we stay in a job that stifles our imagination
or puts terrible burdens on us.
Then one day we see,
and we rise up from that dead-end job and move on.
Or we make a false assumption about God,
like that widow in Zarephath
thinking that some guilt from her past
is causing God to take her son's life.
Then we grow to understand
that God is not judgmental but compassionate,
and we rise up to live in joy.
Or like Paul in that second reading,
we make assumptions about what's right and what's wrong
and set out to punish the wrong ones.
Then something happens—an “ah-hah” moment—
and we turn our lives around.
We've all experienced them—
life-defining moments,
the time before and the time after distinctly different.
__________________________________________
Not all of those life-changing experiences are big ones.
The little daily ones are just as important,
like deciding to go to a lecture,
or registering to vote,
or cleaning the closet and donating the clothes,
or planting a tree,
or smiling and waving at a stranger on the street.
Those little experiences are possible
because we understand the systems that try to control us
and we are free to act to change them.
We are free to act, according to Fr. John Shea,
because Jesus gives us the possibility.
Shea calls Jesus a “peddler of choices”
because he “revealed the mercy of God
and the oppression of people,” allowing us
not only to see what keeps us among the walking dead
but also to rise up and live.
__________________________________________
In our freedom of the reign of God,
we are called to take action.
Our model is Jesus as he reaches out in compassion.
Sometimes the action is reaching out to refugees in our midst.
Sometimes the action is phoning City Council about Lake Erie.
Sometimes the action is talking with a neighbor.
____________________________________________
Whatever action we take, we have a choice.
The Gospel calls us to choose compassion.
And that raises us up, out of our deadness, into new life.
Thanks be to God!

--
Holy Spirit Catholic Community
Saturdays at 4:30 p.m./Sundays at 5:30 p.m.
at 3925 West Central Avenue (Washington Church)

www.holyspirittoledo.org

Rev. Dr. Bev Bingle, Pastor
Mailing address: 3156 Doyle Street, Toledo, OH 43608-2006

Irish Priest Tony Flannery Supports Women Priests in Talk Given in Rome, Claims that the Irish Catholic Church is beyond the point of Redemption

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/priest-claims-irish-catholic-church-beyond-point-of-redemption-1.2669139#.V1CwGOk6A6p.mailto
Irish Redemptorist Priest, Tony Flannery has endured a long and difficult investigated by the Vatican - in part for his public support of women priests. He was one of the speakers at the Women's Ordination Worldwide Conference in Rome yesterday. I am grateful for Tony's support and had a delightful conversation with him when he spoke to my community in Sarasota, Florida. 
Bridget Mary Meehan, www.arcwp.org

Irish priestTony Flannery and Roman Catholic Woman Priest Janice Sevre Duszynska ARCWP enjoy a conversation in Rome at Conference yesterday

Roma concede permiso a una manifestación a favor del sacerdocio femenino por primera vez

https://evangelizadorasdelosapostoles.wordpress.com/2016/06/02/roma-concede-permiso-a-una-manifestacion-a-favor-del-sacerdocio-femenino-por-primera-vez/

English article in The TAblet 

HTTP://WWW.THETABLET.CO.UK/NEWS/5634/0/CAMPAIGNERS-FOR-WOMEN-S-ORDINATION-HAVE-UNPRECEDENTED-MEETING-WITH-VATICAN-REPRESENTATIVE

Castillo de Sant?Angelo (Roma). CAMINO MARTÍNEZ

Christina Moreira ARCWP holds Banner in Spanish in Rome "Mujeres Presbiteras Estan Aqui."

La protesta tendrá lugar a pocos metros del VaticanoFrancisco inicia el camino para que las mujeres puedan ser diaconisas
MÓNICA BERNABÉ Corresponsal Roma@monicabernabe1
02/06/2016 17:00

La organización Women’s Ordination Conference ha conseguido permiso por primera vez para hacer una manifestación en Roma a favor de que las mujeres puedan ser ordenadas sacerdote en la Iglesia Católica. La asociación, fundada en 1975 en Estados Unidos y ahora con representación en dieciséis países del mundo, ya había intentado en otras ocasiones protagonizar protestas de este tipo en la capital italiana, pero nunca había obtenido autorización, o siempre habían sido reprimidas por las fuerzas del orden. La manifestación tendrá lugar este viernes en los jardines del castillo de Sant?Angelo, a unos centenares de metros del Vaticano.”Creo que el hecho de que tengamos presencia permanente en Roma desde hace dos años ha facilitado la obtención del permiso”, comenta a EL MUNDO Kate McElwee, representante de Women’s Ordination Conference en la capital italiana, que detalla que las activistas que participaron en una de las últimas protestas, en 2011, fueron detenidas por la policía.”Con el Papa Francisco, también nos sentimos más libres”, reconoce McElwee, pero aclara que el Vaticano no ha jugado ningún papel para que se les concediera el permiso. Todo ha dependido del Ayuntamiento de Roma. Y además, la protesta no tendrá lugar en territorio vaticano, sino italiano. Aun así no deja de ser significativa, teniendo en cuenta que desde este miércoles se celebra en el Vaticano el denominado Jubileo de los Sacerdotes, y más de seis mil curas de todo el mundo han llegado a la capital italiana. Evidentemente todos hombres, y vestidos con la preceptiva sotana. “Hace un par de semanas empezamos a tramitar la autorización en la policía local”, sigue relatando la activista, que aún parece incrédula de haber logrado el ansiado permiso. La Women’s Ordination Conference (WOC) es la asociación más antigua y más grande que trabaja a favor de la ordenación de las mujeres como sacerdotes, diáconos y obispos. Su actividad empezó a mediados de los años setenta y enseguida consiguió un gran impulso cuando en 1978 varias de sus activistas irrumpieron en una conferencia de obispos en Washington reclamando la igualdad de derechos de las mujeres en la Iglesia católica.Desdeentonces la WOC ha protagonizado múltiples acciones reivindicativas y ha conseguido tejer una amplia red en diversos países, como el Reino Unido, Alemania, Francia, Australia, Japón o India. Según su representante en Italia, de momento no disponen de ninguna delegación en España.Confrontación con la jerarquía eclesiástica En su confrontación con la jerarquía eclesiástica, la WOC impulsó la ordenación de diversas mujeres con la ayuda de un obispo, que decidió desobedecer a la Santa Sede. En total 150 mujeres fueron ordenadas sacerdote. La reacción del Vaticano fue excomulgarlas.El Papa Francisco mostró su disposición el pasado 12 de mayo a que se cree una comisión que estudie la posibilidad de que las mujeres puedan volver a ser diáconos en la Iglesia, tal y como lo fueron en el pasado. El pontífice hizo dicho anuncio durante un encuentro con 900 líderes congregaciones religiosas femeninas de todo el mundo.Un diácono es una figura eclesiástica a la que se le confiere la orden de grado segundo en dignidad, es decir, la siguiente en importancia al sacerdocio. Su responsabilidad es cantar el evangelio y asistir al sacerdote en las misas solemnes. Asimismo, también puede administrar ciertos sacramentos, como el bautismo y elmatrimonio.La WOC valora la postura del Papa como un “paso adelante”, pero no entiende que el pontífice se continúe negando a que las mujeres pueden presidir la eucaristía.

The Woman At the Table of Embracing Love" A Eucharistic Prayer by Bridget Mary Meehan ARCWP

Luke 7: 36-50 "I tell you her sins though many have been forgiven, see how much she loves."

http://www.lizcurtishiggs.com/bad-girls-of-the-bible-the-sinful-woman/#sthash.Xk6YhD0b.dpuf 

"She did not speak her faith- no verbal confession, no sinner's prayer was recorded here- but she certainly demonstrated her love for a God who forgives completely. May we go and do the same!"

Eucharistic Prayer: 

Holy One, it is right that we give you thanks and praise at this table of embracing love. Your empowering presence is revealed in the friendship meals where Jesus dined with tax collectors, lepers, sinners, and women. Here no distinctions are made between the sinner and the righteous. All are accepted,  loved and forgiven.

 Love of the Ages, Jesus treated women and men as beloved and equal disciples. As we gather around this table, we once again recall Jesus’ encounter with the woman of questionable character whose passionate love reflected a God who forgives everything. 

See meditative reading : http://www.lizcurtishiggs.com/bad-girls-of-the-bible-the-sinful-woman/#sthash.Xk6YhD0b.dpuf

In joyful thanksgiving for your extravagant affection to all of us, we join with the angels and saints in an unending hymn of praise:

We are holy, holy, holy by  Music by Karen Drucker

 Through sacred meals, Jesus taught his disciples how to love and forgive, heal and empower. Jesus was deeply moved by the ministry of a broken woman in Luke’s Gospel who washed his feet with her tears and anointed them with oil. He praised her great love and said that those who love much are forgiven much. At this friendship meal, Healing Spirit, we come as we are with our failures, trusting that your love flows through us as we give and receive forgiveness.

As we come together in memory Jesus, we pray that Your Spirit will come upon these gifts of bread and wine and upon us, that we may become the body and blood of Christ blessed, broken and shared.

(pause as bread is lifted)

 We remember how, on the night before he died, Jesus was at table with those he loved. He took bread and blessed you, God of all creation. He broke the bread shared it with his friends and said, "Take this, all of you and eat it. This is my body which will be given for you."

(pause as wine is lifted)

 Then Jesus took the cup of blessing, spoke the grace, and offered them the wine:

“Take and drink the covenant renewed in my blood, for you and for everyone, When you do this you remember me.”

Memorial Acclamation:

The Body of Christ is blessed, broken and shared every time we forgive.

The Body of Christ is blessed, broken and shared every time we ask for forgiveness. 
The Body of Christ is blessed, broken and shared every time we serve others.

 Heart of Love, we celebrate this feast in memory of Jesus, our brother. We cherish the memory of the sinful woman who ministered to Jesus. She reminds us that we too are beloved, wounded healers, the face of God, through whom the Spirit speaks and works each day.

 Creator of the Universe, your love flows through all beings to heal our earth. As we ask forgiveness of the Earth for environmental destruction, your sacred energy transforms the cosmic Body of Christ. (Pause now to pray for forgiveness aloud or in the silence of your heart)

 Energizing Spirit, one with the cloud of witnesses who have gone before us, we labor for justice and equality. As your hands and feet serving a suffering and violent world, we are instruments of your peace and empowerment.

Through Christ, with Christ and in Christ,

All glory and honor is yours, loving God

Forever and ever.

Great Amen.

We pray with Jesus: Our Father and Mother….

 Sign of Peace: Let us offer one another a sign of peace

Litany of the Breaking of the Bread

 Loving God, we will give and receive forgiveness, Namaste

Loving God, we will be instruments of healing, Namaste

Loving God, we will be the face of God’s compassion, Namaste

Communion

 There is room at the table for everyone. Let us share the Body of Christ with the Body of Christ.

Communion Song: Blessing Song  (Kiss of Peace)

May the blessing of peace be upon you.

May peace be all you know.
May the blessing of peace be upon you.

May it follow wherever you go.

Shalom, salaam, shaanti, pacem May peace prevail on earth

Shalom, salaam, shaanti, pacem May peace prevail on earth.

(continue with joy, love, light) © Jan Phillips 2012

Prayer After Communion

Nourished at this open table where all are welcome, may we share abundant love and forgiveness with everyone. Go, now and live the Gospel of Jesus!!

Prayers of Gratitude and Announcements.

Final Blessing:

We love, forgive and bless one another in the name of God, our Creator, Jesus our brother, and the Holy Spirit, our Wisdom.

Recessional: 

Jubilee for Women Priests:June 1, 2016, Rome: by Janice Sevre Duszynska ARCWP

"CAMPAIGNERS FOR WOMEN'S ORDINATION HAVE UNPRECEDENTED MEETING WITH VATICAN REPRESENTATIVE" by Christopher Lamb, The Tablet Janice Servre Duszynska ARCWP and Christina Moreira ARCWP Met with Vatican Representative Yesterday

http://www.thetablet.co.uk/news/5634/0/campaigners-for-women-s-ordination-have-unprecedented-meeting-with-vatican-representative

CAMPAIGNERS FOR WOMEN'S ORDINATION HAVE UNPRECEDENTED MEETING WITH VATICAN REPRESENTATIVE

01 June 2016 | by Christopher Lamb in Rome

The group has been given official permission to hold a public demonstration in the gardens of Castel Sant’Angelo

Campaigners calling for women priests are meeting in Rome this week where they have launched a poster campaign drawing attention to their cause and where they will participate in their first ever official public demonstration. 

Women’s Ordination Worldwide, which this year marks its 20th anniversary, wants to re-open dialogue in the Church in spite of Pope John Paul II’s ruling that the matter should not be discussed. 

Despite the ruling, since 2002, around 150 women have been “ordained” and all of them have been excommunicated as a result.

Yesterday evening two of them had an unprecedented meeting with an official from the Vatican Secretariat of State who agreed to give a petition to the Pope calling for the excommunications to be lifted, and who, according to the women, listened to “our heartfelt plea for women priests in our Church”.

Female ordination is prohibited in the Catholic Church on the grounds that Christ chose only male disciples and only a male priest can act “in persona Christi” (in the person of Christ). 

Fr Tony Flannery, the Irish Redemptorist priest who was suspended from public ministry by the Vatican due, in part, to his views in favour of female ordination, said the ‘in persona Christi’ argument was like suggesting the “earth is flat”.

Speaking during a panel discussion at the Casa Internazionale delle donne Fr Flannery stressed that women were able to represent the person of Christ. 

Also speaking during the discussion today was Dr Marinella Perroni, a theologian at the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum (an educational institute of the Catholic Church) in Rome, who told the gathering that John Paul II’s edict had led to a “paralysis” and meant some professors had been denounced by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith for raising the topic. 

She said that ordaining women could lead to “loss of unity” in the Church, but that it was equally unacceptable to have a “discipleship at two speeds”, where men have ministerial authority and women are not properly recognised.

The conference in Rome suggests a renewed confidence in discussing female ordination. Campaigners have been encouraged by Pope Francis’s recent remarks that he wanted to set up a commission to explore the question of women deacons. 

For the first time the group has been given official permission to hold a public demonstration in the gardens of Castel Sant’Angelo on Friday, the day that the Pope celebrates a jubilee mass for priests in St Peter’s Square. Members of the women’s ordination group have also been given tickets to attend the Mass. 

The pictures on the posters being put around Rome this week include 70 female ‘priests’ from the United States and Colombia photographed by Italian artist Giulia Bianchi as part of an ongoing project.

The gathering this week was organised by Kate McElwee, who is the first woman’s ordination campaigner to be permanently based in Rome. 

Vatican Archbishop Receives Groundswell Petition in Support of Women Priests, Met with Janice Sevre Duszynska ARCWP and Christina Moreira ARCWP at the Vatican Today

Christina Moreira ARCWP (left) and Janice Sevre Duszynska ARCWP (right) at Vatican to
deliver Groundswell Petition in Support of Women Priests
https://action.groundswell-mvmt.org/petitions/pope-francis-welcome-all-priests#

Christina Moreira and I (Janice Sevre Duszynska) met met early this evening with a monsignore, an archbishop, who is an official in the office of the Vatican Secretary of State. He willingly agreed to give the groundswell petition supporting women priests and more to Pope Francis.

Janice Sevre Duszynska ARCWP

The envelope also included other items, including a copy of Pink Smoke Over the Vatican. He listened intensely to our heartfelt plea for women priests in our Church.

Christina Moreira ARCWP, Photos courtesy Christina and Janice

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