Hypocrisy
Jesus does not say,
Our Father . . . Who art in heaven . . .
Jesus says,
Abwoon dibashmaya
(Aramaic)
O Birther,
Mother/Father
of the Cosmos . . .
Jesus knows that
The Divine,
The Creator,
The Source of Life,
The Sustainer of the Universe
is NOT Male only,
but rather the Fullness
of both Masculine and Feminine Essences.
Jesus knows that
God is BOTH Mother and Father,
a loving, birthing energy
who is constantly
a mothering and fathering source of life
for us all.
All of the masculine names for God
and all the corresponding masculine pronouns
that fill the Bible
are only there because
the translators of the Roman Catholic Church
choose to make God masculine.
This is their basis for establishing
a male-dominated church
that leaves women out in the cold
when it comes to church authority.
They define God
in a way that serves their control.
No other organization on the planet
is more hypocritical towards women,
exalting Mary on one hand,
while keeping priests celibate from women
(at least publically)
and powerless in the church on the other hand.
Honoring Mary is important, but
Honoring Women as Equals is Divine.
To ban women from ordination and positions of leadership,
denying them a meaningful voice in the Church
is diabolical.
This is the worst kind of Hypocrisy.
Is pedophilia more honorable
than sexual relations with women?
I have learned more about relationships,
more about presence,
more about compassion and empathy
from the women I have known
than from any man.
To claim,
directly or indirectly through language,
that the Divine Creator
is solely masculine
is damnable.
Making God strictly male
makes males gods.
Jesus knows that when He says,
Abwoon . . .
Love, John Chuchman
Bridget Mary's Reflection
God is not male and to use only male language in official worship implies that God is male which is idolatry. God is beyond all names and images and certainly can be named and imaged with feminine metaphors as well as male metaphors.The real issue is honoring women as equal images of the divine in everything and that means women can and should preside at Eucharist. Excellent work, John!
Thanks for this powerful reflection.
Bridget Mary Meehan, ARCWP
Association of Roman Catholic Women Priests
www.associationofromancatholicwomenpriests.org
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