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**amberamuletuk** · 11-27-2006, 04:17 AM

The following news item from an RSS feed might be of interest to Monachos readers:

The Church of England would struggle in the future without women priests, researchers say.This news item is from the BBC UK News service.

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Or maybe, the Church of England is struggling because of the women priests?

I'm sorry. I have been in the presence of a woman priest once - a long time ago - and it was the worst experience in my life. She didn't have to say anything. But she was wearing a white collar and a black thingy that I suppose looked like a cassock, and the first feelings that welled up within me were those of total disgust and repulsion. It's totally different from men with white collars, who shouldn't be wearing them. In their case, I only lost respect for them, I wasn't repulsed.

We attend a very small parish. All our choir members are women and we have no deacons and readers, so one of the choir members reads the epistle. Today we were visiting St George Antiochian church, in Allentown PA. There was a deacon. There were men to read the epistles. There were also men in the choir. There was something really beautiful and majestic about having the men there, doing what they're supposed to do....

In Christ,
Mary

11-27-2006, 04:17 AM	#4
amberamuletuk Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 363 Senior Member	The following news item from an RSS feed might be of interest to Monachos readers: The Church of England would struggle in the future without women priests, researchers say.This news item is from the BBC UK News service. Click here for fuller text... Or maybe, the Church of England is struggling because of the women priests? I'm sorry. I have been in the presence of a woman priest once - a long time ago - and it was the worst experience in my life. She didn't have to say anything. But she was wearing a white collar and a black thingy that I suppose looked like a cassock, and the first feelings that welled up within me were those of total disgust and repulsion. It's totally different from men with white collars, who shouldn't be wearing them. In their case, I only lost respect for them, I wasn't repulsed. We attend a very small parish. All our choir members are women and we have no deacons and readers, so one of the choir members reads the epistle. Today we were visiting St George Antiochian church, in Allentown PA. There was a deacon. There were men to read the epistles. There were also men in the choir. There was something really beautiful and majestic about having the men there, doing what they're supposed to do.... In Christ, Mary
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