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Sunday, August 3, 2008

Women Find a Way: The Story and Movement of Roman Catholic Womenpriests

Dear Bridget Mary,
Helen and I have just finished reading WOMEN FIND A WAY, out loud, together. We realized at the first woman's story that this little book was much too profound to race through like a page-turning mystery. There is just too much meat in this powerful book, too much to absorb, to digest, to discuss. I can't find enough superlatives to describe our reaction on reading it. We shared more "Wow!"s, "Fantastic!"s, "Incredible!"s as we went through the twenty-five auto-bio-stories. We were so impressed how God called each of these unique, exceptional, yet, ordinary women…… and how each answered God's personal call. This small, 154- page stack of dynamite could be a real 'game-changer' by showing that God's touch and call could 'explode' into the lives of many of us ordinary men and women, to walk tight with God, be guided by the Holy Spirit, and help bring a renewed Church into being, the kind of Church that Jesus wants for God's world and God's people. This great book shows a new paradigm or modus operandi of how Jesus might like His Church to operate---being more inclusive and bringing His love and healing to ALL. These special women were anointed by the touch of God's Holy Spirit and are doing just that. What a glorious blessing it would be for all members of the Church ----Pope, cardinals, bishops, priests, religious, plain folks in the pews--- to read this book and see clearly what God is doing. This book should be required reading for….like, EVERYBODY! We think we could do more to help the Church and the spirituality of the members by buying copies of this book to give to friends, relatives, anyone, rather than contribute dollars for the expansion of our local parish church building to accommodate the increased numbers the planned priest shortage will bring, nor to tens of millions of dollars planned by our local bishop to rebuild a cathedral, the need for which, at best, is questionable. John H. Duffy DISCLAIMER: The accusation that I do have a biased point of view could well be substantiated by the fact that one of the editors and contributors is also our pastor of the Mary Mother of Jesus House Church in Florida, which we attend. To which I plead: GUILTY.

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