Are you saying that women are never called to the priesthood by the Holy Spirit? That if they desire this vocation, they “distrust” God? That all such women are dissidents and will harass the Pope? That they only think of themselves? That these women are seduced by the Beast? You just can’t make generalizations like these!
If a woman stops and reflects on the lives of the saints who were women, they would move farther and farther away from those “feelings.” We have our dignities as men and women. When I was a young man, I would find it absurd to want to be a nun, but to take it further,there are some things I could never do and never know, in that I will never have the connection to a child, the way a Mother can. I could never imitate the Blessed Mother fully, nor understand that relationship with Christ, the way the Blessed Mother cradled the Christ child in her arms, both in a spiritual manner as well as material matter in motherhood. The obedient daughter of the Church in humility would recognize that deprivation of one experience for this or that sex does not mean, that God was cruel when he created both Man and Woman.
Generalization or not, you are arguing on the side of pride of the woman, any woman with humility would place obedience as more important than disobedience if they truly sought holiness.
The lives of St Therese of Lisieux and St Theresa of Avila and St. Catherine of Sienna, are of lives that I will never know to imitate as a male and one can see they have a unique closeness to God as daughters of the Church and spouses of him, and while I can learn from them, there was a unique function they had that I cannot experience. The women in the gospels were clearly important in their humility and showed where they differed from the men in the gospel as they were less afraid during the Lord’s Passion.
The priesthood is a service males give it is not superior, to those who are called to be Spiritual mothers, it is a role and a duty, they are first and foremost called to sacrifice, and offer the Sacrifice, in persona Christi.
This concept of the priesthood, and feminist philosophy creeping in, can only be a result of the rupture between one’s love for the Eucharist and its connection to the priesthood; and also the neglect for the Blessed Mother.
To say that women can be priests is to deny the reality of the nature of man and woman.
Now, I love JPII, but, seriously, **how did he know what was in the mind of Christ **about women clergy?
The Office of Peter. He invoked it! Through the holy spirit. Not JPII the man, but as Vicar, that only the individual could on Earth.
**Wherefore, in order that all doubt may be removed regarding a matter of great importance, a matter which pertains to the Church’s divine constitution itself, in virtue of my ministry of confirming the brethren (cf. Lk 22:32) I declare that the Church has no authority whatsoever to confer priestly ordination on women and that this judgment is to be definitively held by all the Church’s faithful. Invoking an abundance of divine assistance upon you, venerable brothers, and upon all the faithful, I impart my apostolic blessing. **
Also, as far as “we don’t base our faith on feelings”,** faith is all about feelings and one in particular…love**
This is not what I learned from the clergy. Love is not a feeling, but willing the good for the beloved.
The Righteous, The Just man shall live by Faith. A priest, "
. . .not according to our senses, our feelings. Again, this is very much diffused amongst Protestants, and many Catholics. Sentimentalism, they think their whole faith & relationship with God, Charity, depends on how they feel. That is why many fall away, because feelings can only go so far. "
*“We need to govern ourselves by the higher faculties the intellect enlightened by Faith” * Full Talk Here :
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If Faith was based on Feelings then Mother Theresa, St. Therese of Liseuix , St. John of the Cross, who underwent the dark night of the soul and were removed from the consolations of God, would not have had the grace to go on in their good works and obedience to keeping the Commandments. They remained faithful.
St Theresa of Avila says,
“Learn to love the God of consolations, not the consolations of God”
Yes love for God will have its moments of joy and sorrows, but true love , or true charity is not based on feelings. That is sentimentalism.
We do not make our life decisions based on feelings, or emotions all the time ( if we did we would have the current American culture as a result) We make it on the part of the will. It’s easy to be deceived by feelings, one can have bad feelings for instance towards our family member or our spouse and we could say, “I believe I do not love them anymore”
Love is not based on feeling, but the will.
It takes the will, to express true love, and that we still hold them in heart, and pray for them. The same priest said, if love were based on feelings, then how can Christ ask us to love our enemies?
Unfortunately, as I believe Pope Benedict illustrated in his encyclical Caritas in Veritae, the modern understanding of Love has become obscured. Bishop Fulton Sheen and other priests have pointed out that, the English language has contributed to this false understanding of love reduced to Sentimentalism. That is why one can see people leave the Church and God, because of initial bad feeling to teachings that are *“hard to hear” *
You can reject what I said, just something to think about. If a woman sincerely feels the church is depriving them of something, they should pray more. “Lord, increase my humility” “Lord, increase my charity” These are infallible prayers.
Our faith is not based on feeling love of God and love of neighbor, whom we should love as ourselves?