Immaculate Conception Mass at my school and Intercessions

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At the Immaculate Conception Mass at my school, a parochial one, I was quite confounded by the General Intercessions. They essentially turned into a female empowerment seminar.

I know it is customary to pray for women on a Marian feast, but ALL of the intercessions were for women in some form…not even one for the Pope or Bishop. Am I being too analytical or is this odd?
 
…depends on what the petitions were, exactly, who wrote them, and what intention the author had…

…At our school, the Second Grade was the “liturigst” with help from the big people who run the joint. A very reverent second grader was the lector. She did an excellent job. A series of second graders read the petitions, none of which seemed to me to be female enpowerment statements, but the general “feed, the hungry, comfort the afflicted, remember the dead” type petitions.
 
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At the Immaculate Conception Mass at my school, a parochial one, I was quite confounded by the General Intercessions. They essentially turned into a female empowerment seminar.

I know it is customary to pray for women on a Marian feast, but ALL of the intercessions were for women in some form…not even one for the Pope or Bishop. Am I being too analytical or is this odd?
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Can you provide some examples? I don’t think it is necessarily odd, except for the absence of Pope or bishop and clergy prayers in whcih I don’t think I have ever heard a mass without them.

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It depends on what the petitions were. If they were praying for wives and mothers, that sort of thing, then yes, you are being too analytical about it. But, if they were praying that women will someday become priests (to use an extreme example), then you’re totally right.
 
“for women in the Church” which sounded like an allusion to me.

“for fighters for women’s rights”

et al.
 
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“for women in the Church” which sounded like an allusion to me.

“for fighters for women’s rights”

et al.
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Maybe I’m just naive, but I think of nuns and getting us the right to vote. Is your priest/parish really liberal? Therein lies your answer.
 
Yes. We have a Ris-A-Fix behind the altar in the stead of a proper crucifix. Every single EMHC was a girl. Laity returning the Host to the tabernacle, etc.

That is why it seemed like allusion to me.
 
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