(from Morrison & Mink presentation)
1. Do you believe women should be given the chance to be ordained? Why or why not?
2. What does it mean to be a Christian? Why is this question important? (see separate blog entry on being a "good" Catholic)
3. What did you think about the St. John's illuminated Bible?
i really think that women and already married men should be given a chance to be ordained because if they feel like they recieved the calling from God to devout their lives to the spreading the word of God then they should. i think the Catholic church is set in their ways and are not adapting to the changes that have occured the past 100 years. there is a shortage of priests and if a married man or woman wants to be a priest then let them do it! i have thought about this question alot for most of my life and i can not think of one negative thing about a woman or an already married man becoming a priest. its acutally all very annoying to me.
ReplyDelete1. I feel that women should be accepted into the clergy, for many of the same reasons that Kristin pointed out. It does not in the slightest surprise me that there is a shortage of priests when half of the population is excluded from this calling. However, I do not yet think that married men should be permitted to become priests. I think that, in the tradition of the Catholic Church, matrimony is a calling that is distinct from Holy Orders. In other words, then, men have the chance to determine how God is calling them and can make a decision. If they feel that they should marry, that chance is open to them; if they feel that they should become priests, that chance is also open to them. On the other hand, women are excluded from the from the latter, before they even have decision-making capabilities. Therefore, I do not necessarily endorse ordination of married men, but I think that allowing women to join the clergy is a step in the right direction.
ReplyDelete3. I found the Bibles to be extremely interesting and was fascinated by not just the artwork but also the penmanship and work that went into carefully transcribing each of those passages. I wish I had handwriting like that.
1. I feel that women should be allowed to be ordained. I wasn't real sure of the reasoning behind why the church is against the ordination of women so I googled haha. What I found was that the main arguments were that there was never history of any females being called into the priesthood during Jesus' time and the church is all about tradition so that's why they don't want to start allowing women to become priests. I think that as holy and sacred the Bible and other documents are, they were written a very long time ago. Things today are always being reevaluated and updated so I don't see why the Bible isn't looked at in the way. I am not saying that everything in the Bible should be changed to fit with today, but I think that some topics that cause issues today, such as the ordination of women, could be looked at more closely and analyzed to see if maybe tweaking and changing them is really going to be bad. Maybe thinking that Jesus was alive in a different era as were the people who wrote the stories and asking the question if Jesus were alive today what do you think his thoughts on the issue would be now? I feel that this could be very helpful in resolving some issues including allowing women to become priests. It would definitely help solve the problem of the current shortage of priests today.
ReplyDelete3. I thought that the St. John's illuminated Bible was very interesting. I didn't know anything about it, or that it existed prior to talking about it in class. I like the idea of putting pictures in with the text and allowing different interpretations of the pictures. I feel that that helps in making the Bible more personal and relatable to you. I also enjoyed the way that the missed lines were added into the text, I thought it was a clever way of fixing a mistake.
Do you believe women should be given the chance to be ordained? Why or why not?
ReplyDeleteYes! Like I said in class, I am surprised they aren't already! I think women should be given any opportunity a man is given. Within our society today, women and men are seen as equal (at least they should be). Many women are becoming more successful then men. If a woman has that calling from God (like Kristin mentioned) then they should most definitely allow it. With the shortage of priest I do not think it would hurt. It would be a bit weird at first but eventually it would become normal and accepting.
What did you think about the St. John's illuminated Bible?
I got to class before the discussion on St. John's Illuminated Bible, but what I saw of it was beautiful and very detailed! I did not know we even had that within our library at TMC. I probably could have spent more time looking at it.
1. I have never really put much thought into having women ordained. I have no personal issue with that and I wonder why it has always only been men. But I think women have a calling as well as men to what type of life they want to lead. Men can choose to be single and a priest and women can chose to become a sister. I would be interested in what a sister would have to say about women being ordained or if they were ever interested in that path. On the other hand, I do disagree with having married men or women being ordained. This is because I believe that if someone chooses to devout their full life to Christ, then that is what they should do, not be distracted by their wife or children. That is the point of devoting your life to God, so that your attention is on him. I am sure majority of the students in our class who have had serious long term relationships are guilty of losing their path to Christ and starting to see their significant other almost in an idol type of way. I think with the majority of people, when your in a relationship your significant other does tend to play major role in your life and your life tends to revolve around them and not so much around God anymore. So I understand why priest are not allowed to be married, to me it makes sense.
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