Nativity of Our Lord Parish in Warminster presents the talk “The Women of Advent” on Wednesday, Dec. 10 from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the parish conference center.
The Gospels present the figures of Mary and Elizabeth in Advent. Discover the lesser known women who appear in the Advent Scriptures — Tamar, Rahab, Bathsheba, Ruth and Hannah — and learn why the church places them before us for consideration during this season. Learn about these women and what lessons they have for us as we continue to open ourselves to the coming of Jesus in our lives.
Sister of Mercy Marie Michele Donnelly, co-director of Mercy Spiritual Ministries and an adjunct professor at Gwynedd Mercy College, is the presenter.
As along as the church is not willing to reconsider the choice of the exclusively male priesthood (CCC 1598) all the rhetoric about the crisis of faith, and about the crisis of marriage and the family, will continue to lack credibility, and increasingly so as we inexorably continue to evolve toward a post-patriarchal world. We need both ordained fathers, and ordained mothers, to act in persona Christi capitis.
Is “God the Father” exclusively male? Would Jesus, in today’s world, choose 12 males to represent the patriarchs of the 12 tribes of Israel? If Mary, an unbaptized woman, was called to divine motherhood, why is it that baptized women cannot be called to sacramental motherhood?