From Left to right: Kathy Redig, Bridget Mary Meehan, Fr. Roy Bourgeois, Bishop Dana Reynolds,
Janice Servre Duszynska
Bishop Dana Reynolds lays hands on Janice
in ordination ritual
in ordination ritual
Community lays hands on Janice
Janice sharing Eucharist to Bob, her husband
Historic first Southern Ordinations took place at Unitarian Universalist Church of Lexington on Aug. 9, 2008
Historic first Southern Ordinations took place at Unitarian Universalist Church of Lexington on Aug. 9, 2008
VIDEO CLIPS OF ORDINATION OF JANICE SEVRE-DUSZYNSKA:
Video Clip of Processional: "All are Welcome in this place"
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6676687209467906900
Video Clip of Processional: "All are Welcome in this place"
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6676687209467906900
Roman Catholic Womenpriests: Fr. Roy Bourgeois Homily
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=Homily+of+Fr.+Roy+Bourgeois&emb=0#
Video Clip of Janice's Ordination- Prostration before the Altar: Litany of the Saints
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1350776209260830572
Video Clip of Janice's Ordination- Prostration before the Altar: Litany of the Saints
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1350776209260830572
Laying on of Hands by the Community
Video Clip of Prayer of Consecration
Video Clip of Communion Reflection Hymn: "Let the Women be there"
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=144203776954250987
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=144203776954250987
Video Clip of Recessional: "We are Marching, Singing, Dancing in the Light of God"
Hehe. Looking at your congregation, it looks like we'll be rid of this nonsense in a few years.
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ReplyDeleteWomen have a place at the altar and in service to Christ and his church. I am astonished at the bloggers who say they are against the ordination of women. Their opinions seem to approve without question a Roman Catholic Church hierarchy who has squandered their moral authority and credibility in recent years. This same Church hierarchy quietly reassigned pedophile priests and silenced their victims, who finally got justice not from “holy mother church”, but via the American criminal and legal system - a fact that questions the moral authority of the very highest in the church.
And they condemn? Oh, no, excuse me, the phrase that the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (once known as The Inquisition) uses is that these women “… excommunicate themselves automatically…it is not a penalty imposed by the local bishop of the universal church.” As if the hierarchy had nothing to do with it - well, come to think of it, maybe they don’t. Maybe they really cannot excommunicate - because the relationship that Janice and Roy have with their God is significant and real and intimate and powerful, and fully fuelled by their faith in Christ and the love and service that derives from that faith.
Our church hierarchy, in the great tradition of harassing Galileo, condoning slavery, and silently watching the Nazi holocaust rage in its backyard, now – incredibly - takes action against women who are called to service and have the courage to act on that call. The hierarchy refuses to reflect the well-established early church traditions (traced to the Gospels and to the Acts of the Apostles) of women in priestly ministries. In 1976, The Vatican's Papal Commission concluded that there was no evidence in scripture that to prohibit women's ordination. There is plenty of evidence to support women as leaders, deacons, priests and ministers in the history of the early church; in fact, scholars tell us that women served in ordained ministry for the first 1200 years of the church's history.
As the number of priests ‘with faculties’ declines, the Hierarchy continues to value the all-celibate-male-mythology above the good of the church community and the Eucharist itself. Only when women’s ordination and married priesthood are fully and publicly recognized can the Church be whole (one), real (holy), present (catholic) and relevant (apostolic) to the people of God.
Joanne, forgive me for being blunt, but what part of infallible definition do you not understand??
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