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Old 11-27-2006, 06:17 AM   #6
DF9sLGSU

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I have never seen a female priest IRL having been a convert for a while but it is one of those issues I am going to be hit with by loved ones who just don't understand my faith. It's all about pride, the evil one stirs up pride until our role in life instead of being just different is seen as "inferior". We are taught pride in our schools and in our modern thinking world and humility is frowned upon. Sad.
Dear Irene,

So true, alas.

As an Anglican I struggled hard with this one. But all the arguments in favour of this are secular ones, and those who use them seem to want a Church in their image rather than the one founded by the Incarnate Lord.

What is even sadder, is the way in which advocates of women's ordination stigmatise those who oppose them as prejudiced bigots. No doubt there are those on both sides who fit into such a category, although how any of us can presume to look into the heart of another, is lost on me. Any 'cause' which is spread by such tactics proclaims by that its dubious nature, I fear.

As we have discussed elsewhere recently on this site, our understanding of what was delivered once to us by the Lord can develop, but as Mr. Jones says, this is something else altogether; it is another religion.

Mary is surely correct, it is the very perversion of the Faith that is leading Anglicanism into the mess it is in. The Archbishop of Canterbury is a patently good man and a subtle theologian, who is well-known to have a great sympathy with and understanding of Orthodoxy; as he looks on these things it is perhaps no wonder he wraps his thoughts up in musings some find hard to follow - what is happening to his Church is hard to swallow - too hard for me.

INXC,

John
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