Ireland; men only Mass abolished?

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Many religious orders have places and events that are gender segregated.
 
Tarpeian_Rock said:
May sound like splitting hairs, but this sounds more like a Mass for a specific group that was men only, vs a Mass that was restricted to men.
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No; read carefully. This is/was MEN ONLY.

I had never heard of this and wondered it if was just here?
 
YOU read carefully.
They are members of a Redemptorist Order and have been having this Mass for decades,
Someone decided is was unfair and caused a fuss. It’s on Monday nights.
I’m sure the women were just DYING to go to this particular Church every Monday night. :rolleyes:
 
That’s so sad, Mass celebrated once a week for over 150 years. Thousands attended at its zenith. 60 attend at the moment. Lifelong members of a specific religious order, and their community.
 
I’m more sad about the fact that it went from thousands attending to only 60 than I am about the gender business, either way.

At least they can’t blame the decline in attendance at the Mass on the fact that women were present.
 
Tis_Bearself said:
I’m more sad about the fact that it went from thousands attending to only 60 than I am about the gender business, either way.

At least they can’t blame the decline in attendance at the Mass on the fact that women were present.
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Well, all the sodalities, fraternal organizations and the like are declining.
People just don’t want to “belong” to anything anymore. Active membership takes work.
 
Our parish has a men’s holy hour, and on another night a women’s holy hour.
We all like it. The homily is geared towards whichever group is there that night.
 
twf said:
But that’s talking about public Masses, no? A priest can celebrate a private Mass. Often Masses are said for women organizations like the CWL.
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Can not a Priest celebrate Mass alone? If so, that’s the definition of men-only. I don’t believe this is how the Canon referenced was intended.
 
Irishmom2 said:
Our parish has a men’s holy hour, and on another night a women’s holy hour.
We all like it. The homily is geared towards whichever group is there that night.
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Where I live, we have a men’s conference and a women’s conference. They both include a Mass, which is in effect single sex, because it is for the people at that conference.

Likewise, we have Masses for youth movements, where the only adults present are a few youth leaders. As you say, one advantage is that the homily can be geared for a particular group. But there is a trend to oppose any segregation by sex, because certain parties don’t **want **different homilies for men and women, because they want to eliminate differences overall. Thus husbands/wives and mothers/fathers would be interchangeable.

I think the canon law provision cited was intended to rule out discrimination based on prejudice, not to ignore natural differences of gender and age. If anything, the Church might be accused of being too geared towards females, so much so that some call for an “affirmative action” type program aimed at males.
 
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