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Living Gospel Inclusivity and Empowerment Now
Saturday, December 13, 2014
Des Moines Catholic Worker House Community Celebrates Liturgy with Janice Sevre-Duszynska, ARCWP on Dec. 12, 2014
Silvia Perez, ARCWP Candidate- Ministry to the Homeless in California
"Yesterday
morning I did breakfast with our 12 residents, some bagels and coffee and orange
juice. Three of our residents were disabled in some manner, one in a wheelchair,
two working with difficulty with old canes. Two of us helped one of the men to
put his jackets on, because he is partly paralyzed; I asked him if he was a
mechanic and he smiled and asked me how I knew... but with a permanently
deformed and paralyzed hand, he will not be able to engage in much car
mechanics...
and so our society throws men and women like him away, and these days, as in the
Heart of the Bay, also criminalizes their poverty and illness...
Last night we had a full house, 20 men and women
eating soup and drinking coffee, warming up after the heavy rains that battered
our city yesterday. Twenty is a small number, but in memory of Joe White, these
20 had a good night's sleep. Would that we could wake up the heart of our
community and the larger heart of this nation, to end homelessness. It is within
our reach and within our means. All we need is the spirit and the desire to say,
no more, we are a caring society, we will not throw any more people away.
Friday, December 12, 2014
Pope Francis Puts His Foot In It Again -This Time with Retrograde Views on Women
http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2014/12/12/pope-francis-puts-his-foot-in-it-again-this-time-with-retrograde-views-on-women/
What does the Pope know about women? Not much pretty much sums it up!
What does the Pope know about women? Not much pretty much sums it up!
ARCWP Catacomb Deacon Ministers to the Dying at Nursing Care Facility
This evening one of our catacomb deacons called to tell me about her new ministry. She lives in a nursing care facility and no one knows that she is ordained. Recently, a nurse came to her and asked if she would pray with and anoint a person who was dying. The nurse said that something inside of her told her to get our catacomb deacon to accompany the dying woman.
God sometimes works in strange ways and matches our gifts to others needs. In this case, the nurse wanted to provide a loving presence to accompany a person to the threshold of heaven. She "knew" who to call! God is always already there leading and guiding us, finding angels of mercy to be there in our hour of need. All we have to do is trust that God will provide for us and that God will use us if we are open to love and serve others in need.
Bridget Mary Meehan, ARCWP, www.arcwp.org
God sometimes works in strange ways and matches our gifts to others needs. In this case, the nurse wanted to provide a loving presence to accompany a person to the threshold of heaven. She "knew" who to call! God is always already there leading and guiding us, finding angels of mercy to be there in our hour of need. All we have to do is trust that God will provide for us and that God will use us if we are open to love and serve others in need.
Bridget Mary Meehan, ARCWP, www.arcwp.org
Watch Vatican Press Conference on Outcomes of Vatican Investigation of U.S. Sisters on You Tube
On Tuesday December 16 we invite you to join members of the Nun Justice Project in watching a live- stream press conference from the Vatican about the outcomes of the Congregation for Religious' Apostolic Visitation of U.S. sisters conducted from 2009 to 2012.
The press conference
is being held in Rome at 11:30 am Rome time, (5:30 am Eastern time in
the U.S.
While early reports
indicate the report will be positive, it is important to remember that the mandate against the Leadership Conference of Women
Religious (LCWR) still stands.
It is encouraging that the president of LCWR, Sr. Sharon Holland, will participate in the press conference. However, until the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) rescinds the mandate and apologizes to LCWR, the sisters remain under a
Catholic Theologians Speak Out on Racial Justice
http://catholicmoraltheology.com/statement-of-catholic-theologians-on-racial-justice/
ARCWP Priest Maureen McGill Officiates at Blessing of Marriage of Gay Couple in Largo, Florida
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| ARCWP Priest Maureen McGill officiates at blessing of marriage of
George and Paul, who
were
married in another area and asked Maureen to bless their marriage.
This blessing took place at St Francis ECC in Largo on
Sunday, November 30, 2014.
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"Seven reasons some women wince when Pope Francis starts talking" by David Gibson
http://ncronline.org/news/vatican/seven-reasons-some-women-wince-when-pope-francis-starts-talking
1. "Be a mother and not an old maid!"
"Please, let it be a fruitful chastity, a chastity that generates sons and daughters in the church. The consecrated woman is a mother, must be a mother and not an old maid [or "spinster"]. ... Forgive me for speaking this way, but the motherhood of consecrated life, its fertility, is important."
-- Address to nuns from around the world, May 8, 2013
2. "I am wary of 'masculinity in a skirt.' "
"It is necessary to broaden the opportunities for a stronger presence of women in the church. I am wary of a solution that can be reduced to a kind of 'female machismo' ["machismo in gonnella," he said in Italian, or "masculinity in a skirt"] because a woman has a different make-up than a man. But what I hear about the role of women is often inspired by an ideology of machismo."
-- Interview with Jesuit publications, September 2013
3. "The fact is, woman was taken from a rib."
Q: Do you see a bit of misogyny in the background [of your references to women mainly as mothers and wives rather than leaders]?
A: "The fact is, woman was taken from a rib." (The pope gives a hearty laugh.) "I am kidding, that was a joke."
-- Interview with the Italian daily Il Messaggero, June 29, 2014
4. "Pastors often wind up under the authority of their housekeeper!"
Q: Can we expect some historic decisions from you, such as making a woman the head of a Vatican department?"
A: (He laughs again) "Well, pastors often wind up under the authority of their housekeeper!"
-- Interview with the Italian daily Il Messaggero, June 29, 2014
5. "Europe is now a 'grandmother,' no longer fertile and vibrant."
"In many quarters we encounter a general impression of weariness and aging, of a Europe which is now a 'grandmother,' no longer fertile and vibrant. As a result, the great ideas which once inspired Europe seem to have lost their attraction."
-- Address to the European Parliament, Nov. 25, 2014
6. Woman theologians "are the strawberries on the cake!"
"I would like to note, in the context of the increasingly diverse composition of the Commission, the greater presence of women -- still not enough. ... They are the strawberries on the cake, but we want more!"
-- Address to the International Theological Commission, Dec. 5, 2014
7. "A church that seems more like a spinster than a mother"
"When the church does not [evangelize], then the church stops herself, is closed in on herself, even if she is well-organized, has a perfect organizational chart, everything's fine, everything's tidy -- but she lacks joy, she lacks peace, and so she becomes a disheartened church, anxious, sad, a church that seems more like a spinster than a mother, and this church doesn't work, it is a church in a museum. The joy of the Church is to give birth."
-- Homily at morning Mass, Dec. 9, 2014
Thursday, December 11, 2014
News Release: Mass With Janice Sevre-Duszynska, A Catholic Priest and Peace Activist at Catholic Worker House in Iowa
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| left to right: ARCWP women priests at SOA Watch Vigil Katy Zatsick, Janice Sevre-Duszynska, Diane Dougherty What: Mass with Rev Janice Sevre-Duszynska, a Catholic Priest & Peace Activist |
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Site: Bp Dingman CW House, 1310 7th St. DM IA
The DMCW Community is honored to host a Mass celebrated by long
time CW'er friend, peace activist and women Catholic Priest Janice
Sevre-Duszynska. Janice was ordained in 2008 into the Association of
Roman Catholic Women Priests community, www.arcwp.org and
bridgetmarys.blogspot.com
"Janice Sevre-Duszynska, DMin. was ordained a priest in 2008 in
Lexington, Kentucky. From teaching ESL to children from around the
world she says she learned about the value of nonviolence. A local and
national peace activist, she is a former Prisoner of Conscience for
the School of the Americas Watch and a former board member of the
Women’s Ordination Conference. She completed a Christian Peacemakers
Team delegation into the Sonora Desert of Mexico and Tucson in
solidarity with Mexican migrants as part of the Migrant Trail Walk.
She enjoys writing and is the media representative for ARCWP. She
presides at liturgies in Cincinnati, Ohio, and Lexington, Kentucky.
Phone: 856 684 4247
Email: rhythmsofthedance1@gmail.com
From http://www.arcwp.org/biogs.html
Janice last visited DM in 2007 during the IA Caucus "Seasons of
Discontent: A Presidential Occupation Project" (SODaPOP) campaign.
(See attached photo)
This service is open to all, all are welcome.
Rev Janice Sevre-Duszynska and Frank Cordaro will also be Prayer
Leaders for the weekly 10 a.m. liturgy Sunday Dec 14 at the Des Moines
Intentional Eucharistic Community http://www.dmiec.org/
For more info contact:
Frank Cordaro
515 282 4781 / c 515 490 2490
Phil Berrigan CW House
http://just.dmcatholicworker.org/
DMCW http://dmcatholicworker.org
Occupy the World Food Prize campaign
http://occupytheworldfoodprize.com
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Q: Who have you worked with in the Catholic Worker movement over the years?
A: To name a few . . . Frank Cordaro and Ed Bloomer of Des Moines CW;
Kathy Boylan and Art Laflin of the Dorothy Day CW in Washington, D.C.;
Liz McAllister, Ardeth Platte, Carol Gilbert, Susan Crane of Jonah
House; Anne Montgomery and Bill Bischel; friends at Holy Family CW –
Kansas City; friends at St. Francis/St. Joseph CW - Cincinnati; Mark
Coleville, Greg Williams – Amistad CW (CT); Carman Trotta, Freida
Berrigan, Maryhouse CW (NY); Friends at Su Casa and White Rose CW
Communities (Chicago); Jim Haber of Las Vegas CW; Don Timmerman,
Roberta Thurstin of The Sparrow Sings – Casa Maria CW (Milwaukee);
Carl Kabat and Chrissy of Carl Kabat/Karen CW House – St. Louis, MO;
Patrick O’Neill of Fr. Charlie Mulholland CW – Garner, NC; Sr. Megan
Rice, Mike Walli, Greg Boertje-Obed; Franciscans Jerry Zawada and
Louis Vitale; Jesuit Bill Brennan; Catholic Workers at large Bob Graf,
Joe Radoszewski, (Milwaukee); Brian Terrell, Kathy Kelly of Voices for
Creative NonViolence and others in resistance groups across the
country.
From Via Pacis, July 2014 (PDF 6.3MB) Interview with female priest,
Rev. Janice Sevre-Duszynska | pg. 7
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/33256149/DMCW/2014%20July%20v.p.%20web.pdf
"Female Catholic priest celebrates Mass at St. Francis CW House" by
Alex Bond, the Columbia Missourian May 29, 2014
https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!searchin/national-cw-e-mail-list/steve$20jacobs%7Csort:date/national-cw-e-mail-list/Vp4yt0wnvZw/JG-9g6VKOg8J
"God Is Always New" by Sister Delio, "God drawing the world from up ahead..."
http://globalsistersreport.org/column/speaking-god/god-always-new-16446#.VImjKiJZxFI.mailto
..."Teilhard perceived an entangled presence of divine newness with Big Bang evolution which he called “God-Omega” and spoke of evolution as a dynamic process of creativity, novelty and future. At one point he wrote, “The whole universe rests on the future as its sole support.” That is, the universe rests on the eternal newness of God. Theologian Paul Tillich said that divine life and divine creativity are one and the same thing. The divine life is essentially creative and actualizes itself in inexhaustible abundance. God is always new; life is always new. Every end is a new beginning and every arrival, a new departure. There are no dead ends in life unless we ourselves die in despair.Teilhard’s insight on divine newness undergirds the virtue of hope, especially in a world that knows so much violence, hatred and division. As creatures in evolution, we are not defined by our divisions but by our creativity and openness to deepened relationships and more unified life. The monotheistic faiths still linger with Aristotle; they are still enamored with “being” and “substance,” “matter” and “form...”
" Many mystics throughout the centuries, like Teilhard, however, seem to dispense with scholastic constraints. Rather than deciphering philosophical arguments, God is simply love or love-energy; love that is absolutely self-communicative, other-centered, intrinsically relational, utterly faithful and always new. Teilhard said that theology has thought of God too much in terms of a prime mover moving things from the past. Evolution impels us to think of God as drawing the world from up ahead; God is the power of the future. Hence, God cannot be defined by the past, only by the future because God is ever newness in love.
" Many mystics throughout the centuries, like Teilhard, however, seem to dispense with scholastic constraints. Rather than deciphering philosophical arguments, God is simply love or love-energy; love that is absolutely self-communicative, other-centered, intrinsically relational, utterly faithful and always new. Teilhard said that theology has thought of God too much in terms of a prime mover moving things from the past. Evolution impels us to think of God as drawing the world from up ahead; God is the power of the future. Hence, God cannot be defined by the past, only by the future because God is ever newness in love.
If religions are to contribute to a more unified, just and peaceful world they must do so by creating a new future together. Can we imagine a new type of religious being or new forms of religious life or perhaps new religion itself? In a world of quantum possibilities and an expanding universe, future has an endless horizon. The religious dimension of our existence is simply the deep, intrinsic longing for absolute unity, beyond heaven and earth, a stretching forth into the incomprehensible love-energy that is God. How we harness this energy for a deepening of life ahead is the religious question of our age. It takes an inner freedom born of grace to let go into the new but the new is God and God is future. We are called to a radical trust in the future."
[Ilia Delio, OSF, a Sister of St. Francis of Washington, D.C., is Haub Director of Catholic Studies and Visiting Professor at Georgetown University. Her recent publications include From Teilhard to Omega: Cocreating an Unfinished Universe and The Unbearable Wholeness of Being: God, Evolution and the Power of Love.]
4o ANIVERSARIO SACERDOTAL DICIEMBRE 11/10: CELEBRANDO CON LA IGLESIA,CON ARCWP Y LAS COMUNIDADES
https://evangelizadorasdelosapostoles.wordpress.com/2014/12/11/4o-aniversario-sacerdotal-diciembre-1110-celebrando-con-la-iglesiacon-arcwp-y-las-comunidades/
Olga Lucia Álvarez Benjumea ARCWP*
Te has puesto a pensar ¿qué sucede en la primavera? Tal vez, si, talvez, no. Quizás porque en varios de nuestros países, vivimos en eterna primavera, y es como si nos hubiéramos acostumbrado a ella. En cambio en otros países como en Europa, EE.UU. Canadá, por la existencia de las estaciones, valoran y aprecian el reventar de cada primavera.
En el Colegio, nos enseñaban a ver el repuntar de una semilla de frijol, en un algodón húmedo, y en un frasco con agua. ¿Te acuerdas? Todos los días observamos qué era lo que iba sucediendo, con gozo comentábamos y mostrábamos cómo se fue formando nuestra plantita, hasta su mejor momento.
ARCWP (Asociación Católica Romana de Mujeres Presbiteras) es una semilla, sembrada, hace muchos años… Es una semilla salida del Evangelio de Jesús de Nazaret, que Él mismo plantó, entre sus discípulas y discípulos. Más claro no puede ser el texto de Lucas 8:3 donde varias mujeres andaban con Jesús hombro a hombro, sin el perjuicio del sexismo –pecado mortal de moda y de actualidad, generador de la violencia contra las mujeres- dice el texto: “Juana, la mujer de Cusa, administrador de Herodes; Susana y muchas otras. Todas ellas ayudaban con sus propios recursos a Jesús y sus discípulos”
Es imposible borrar la Historia de la Iglesia, como se ha pretendido hacerlo, porque, no olvidemos que las piedras hablan.
Desde ARCWP forjamos la Iglesia que soñamos y queremos,“viviendo en igualdad el Evangelio y la Justicia para todas/os en la Iglesia y en la sociedad ahora. Trabajamos en solidaridad con los empobrecidos y marginados/as en la justicia transformadora, en colaboración con todos los creyentes. Consideramos la Justicia como parte constitutiva del Evangelio de Jesucristo.”(Misión y Carisma de ARCWP).
“Nuestra visión es vivir como una Comunidad de iguales en la toma de decisiones como una organización en todas nuestras comunidades de fe. Estamos en la renovación de la visión de Jesús en el Evangelio en la Iglesia y en el mundo. Reconocemos las injusticias de clase, etnia, orientación sexual y desafíos mentales y físicos, así como de género. Por lo tanto, nos afirmamos en la justicia social, la tradición de la Iglesia, en la búsqueda de la justicia para todos/as, especialmente los económicamente empobrecidos y los marginados/as.” (Visión de ARCWP).
La Primavera Eclesial que vivimos en ARCWP se ha venido preparando desde años atrás, en el reverdecer de Vaticano II, Celam-Medellin-1968, Teología de la Liberación, Teología Femenina, Teologías contemporáneas, arando y abonando continuamente, viviendo la novedad permanente del Evangelio y sus continuos desafío, fortaleciendo sus raíces, formando y empoderando discípulas y discípulos, laicos/as, diaconas,/os, presbiteras/os, obispas/os, al servicio del Reino de Dios en su Iglesia. Iglesia abierta, inclusiva, generando sororidad, fraternidad, comunidad, en justicia, paz y amor.
En la frescura de la Primavera Eclesial, me apropio de una frase del Papa Francisco, que nos anima a abrir aquella puerta, que dicen está cerrada, para nosotras mujeres:
“El Amor nos hace semejantes, crea igualdad, derriba los muros y las distancias” Cuaresma 2014 Francisco.
CRÓNICA HISTÓRICA EN IMAGEN DE LA PRIMAVERA ECLESIAL EN ARCWP
María Madre de Jesús portadora de la Buena Noticia a su prima Isabel. Lucas 1:39-45
Jesús envía a la mujer samaritana llevar la Buena Nueva a sus hermanos. Juan 5:9-29
Jesús entrega su mensaje más preciado a Marta: “Yo soy la resurrección y la vida” Juan 11:1:45
Jesús envía a María de Magdala llevar la Buena Nueva a sus hermanos: Juan 20:11-18
Las Catacumbas de Santa Priscila en Roma. Las piedras gritan…
Nota curiosa, a Teodora (1a de la izquieda) maliciosamente se intentó borra la “a” para que parezca “o”.
CRITERIOS EN LA ACTUALIDAD QUE IMPIDEN EL MINISTERIO FEMENINO.
“Tanto el Derecho Canónico de 1917 (can. 938), como el renovado de 1983 (can. 1024), afirman claramente que “solamente el varón bautizado puede ser ordenado válidamente como sacerdote de la Iglesia católica”.
Dado que los argumentos actualmente invocados en contra del presbiterado femenino son mucho más conocidos, nos limitaremos a enunciarlos en unos puntos concretos. Los documentos base, evidentemente, son la Declaración Vaticana Inter Insignores (1976) y la carta pastoral de Juan Pablo II, Mulieris dignitatem (1988), puesto que son los dos que recogen y expresan la postura oficial de la Iglesia Católica en estos momentos. Ambas mantienen la validez de los cánones anteriormente citados.
Los argumentos, dichos esquemáticamente, son:
El carácter masculino del sacerdocio del Antiguo Testamento y la subordinación de las mujeres a los varones según el Nuevo Testamento en las Cartas Pastorales.
El argumento simbólico-antropológico: “porque Cristo fue y sigue siendo varón” (I. I.), es decir, representatividad, imposibilidad de representar a Cristo una mujer. Y el argumento simbólico-nupcial: Cristo, varón, Esposo y la Iglesia, femenino, Esposa.
E1 argumento de la “venerable” Tradición en la práctica de la Iglesia. O sea, la afirmación de que la Iglesia católica nunca ha ordenado mujeres.
La “fidelidad al prototipo del ministerio sacerdotal querido por el Señor Jesucristo y mantenido cuidadosamente por los apóstoles” (Inter Insignores).
El hecho de que Cristo, positivamente, no eligió entre los “Doce” a ninguna mujer y por lo tanto no instituyó mujeres como sacerdotes y las excluyó de esta posibilidad.” . http://www.womenpriests.org/sp/aran_sal/aran03.asp
Ludmila Javorova. En 1970 el obispo Felix Maria Davídek en comunión con Roma la ordena, para atender a los prisioneros/as de la Iglesia del Silencio en la republica Checa. Después de la caída del muro de Berlin, Roma le desconoce a ella y otras compañeras.
En Roma.La Rv.Janice Sevre-Duszynska:
Las mujeres sacerdotes estamos aquí.
Las mujeres sacerdotes estamos aquí.
Dublin, Irlanda Junio 29 del 2002 Las primeras 7 ordenadas sobre las agua del río Danubio.
Las obispas Patricia y Christine celebrando la Eucaristia
EE.UU. Las ordenadas en Pittsburgh Julio 25 del 2005
ARCWP En el 2013 la Comunidad de Presbiteras que sale a anunciar la Buena Nueva.
La obispa Bridget Mary celebrando unas confirmaciones en Fort Meyers
Rev Judy Lee en la Liturgia del lavatorio de los pies.
Celebrando con los estudiantes de Las Malvinas.
Empoderando a los jóvenes en su ser participativo de la Iglesia
En la ordenación al presbiterado de la 4a colombiana
Acompañando al pueblo inmigrante en la tragedia de familiares desaparecidos.
Atendiendo a los enfermos
Empoderando a los niños en su ser de Iglesia, como bautizados.
El pequeño Samuel, hijo de Ana y Ramiro empieza a sus tres meses a celebrar y compartir la Eucaristía.
Los niños de Soacha, felices participando en la Eucaristía.
Celebrando la Eucaristía con los hijos de las pospenadas
Las Rvs Judy Lee, Marta Aida Soto y Olga Lucia, celebrando el Bautismo de la nieta de Marta Aida.
Recogiendo en mis manos todos los agradecimientos por las Bondades de la Esencia Divina,de cada uno/a de los asistentes, para ser presentados en el altar. (SOACHA)
Concelebrando con la Comunidad en Soacha.
Las madres y abuelas de la Comunidad sirven la Comunión, porque ellas han formado a sus hijos y nietos en la fe y principios cristianos.
Celebrando una Eucaristía ecuménica, con hermanos anglicanos.
En esta etapa de mi vida doy gracias a la Esencia Divina de la Vida, porque cada día entiendo más y más mi Bautismo. Para mi es un gozo el poder compartir y hacer participe a mis hermanas/os de la vivencia de este sacramento que nos dignifica e iguala como hijas e hijos de Dios en el discipulado de iguales, en amor y justicia. (Galatas 3:28)
En el Ofertorio, presentando la vida de la recién bautizada
La Asociación Católica de Mujeres Sacerdotes ARCWP Movimiento internacional es la construcción de un puente entre la iglesia jerárquica y un discipulado de iguales, viviendo la igualdad anunciada en el Evangelio y la asociación en nuestras comunidades de fe inclusiva locales y diversos ministerios. Somos un movimiento profético, una “sacudida santa” dentro de la Iglesia Católica que promueve la plena igualdad de la mujer
La Católica Romana Mujeres Sacerdotes internacional Movimiento es la construcción de un puente entre la iglesia jerárquica y un discipulado de iguales, viviendo la igualdad Evangelio y la asociación en nuestras comunidades de fe inclusiva locales y diversos ministerios. Somos un movimiento profético, una “sacudida santo” dentro de la Iglesia católica que promueve la plena igualdad de la mujer como un problema arraigado en el ejemplo de Jesús en el Evangelio.
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