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Speaking hypothetically! This is NOT arguing for female ordination in any way shape or form. Nor is it implying that you’d disobey the church either.

This one’s a question for the ladies. Out of everything a priest can do, what out of what a priest can do would you most love to be able to do? My Mum is a Lay Leader so she can lead a church service, but she can’t consecrate a host. She’s always said that even if women could be ordained she’d refuse because she wouldn’t like to hear confessions etc.

Is there anything, ladies, that a priest can do that you would love to do? For me, I would like to deliver people from possession or maybe perform extreme unction to see people home. That’s all. I wouldn’t like to hear confessions, consecrate a host, baptise babies, anything like that.

How about you?
 
In short, nothing.

I am called and content with what God is calling me to be. Okay, I don’t know my full calling because God knows that I need to be guided in little steps. However, I would not give up any of the joys of how I am called to serve, unless God asked me too. I wonder at, and rejoice in the callings others have, but in all honesty, I know that my own calling was created especially for me and I am humbled at times when I am carried beyond my own ability. It may be seen as nothing or little to others, but it is an exciting adventure for me.
 
^^^^^This.

I will add that I am happy to be the Bride. The priest, in the person of Christ, the bridegroom. I’m good with that.
 
Nope. There is “nothing I shall want.” I have no desire to be a priest.
I respect them, but I would not want to be one.
 
FlowerOfMountCarmel said:
Is there anything, ladies, that a priest can do that you would love to do?
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Obviously women cannot perform any priestly functions, but if we could, I would love to be able to say Mass.
It would be so sublime to actually consecrate Hosts, hold God in your hands, be so close with God.
The Mass is so wonderful!
 
I have no interest in being a priest let alone a female priest!

If there were something it would probably be to anoint the sick and/or give last rites.
 
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Last Rites is a series of prayers and sacraments that includes the sacrament of the anointing of the sick. And lay people cannot anoint, not even deacons can. Since anointing of the sick is tied to the forgiveness of sins, only priests and bishops can perform it.

-Fr ACEGC
 
I’m sorry, but this entire question is just weird.

To the extent I wanted to be a priest, it was because I thought I could do a good job serving God, praying, being an administrator or doing things priests in the particular diocese or order I joined would be called on to do. It wasn’t like “wow, I’d love to transubstantiate a Host.”
 
I never thought about it because that’s not a role I could ever fill.
 
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I’m sorry, but this entire question is just weird.

To the extent I wanted to be a priest, it was because I thought I could do a good job serving God, praying, being an administrator or doing things priests in the particular diocese or order I joined would be called on to do. It wasn’t like “wow, I’d love to transubstantiate a Host.”
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I agree that it is a weird question. Sometimes weird questions can be interesting.

My answer is related to what I feel I am called to do in my lay capacity (visit and aide the sick, infirm, and dying). So, to the extent I could come up with an answer, anointing the sick and last rites seemed logical.

I have exactly zero interest in being a priest. Even if it were possible. I’m not called to that.

Before deciding to become Catholic I was Baptist, and it is possible for women to become Baptist pastors. I never had any interest in seminary and such then, and I certainly don’t now. Just to be 100% clear.
 
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I actually did have an interest in becoming a Jesuit priest when I was in high school.
I thought Jesuits did a lot of interesting things.
Perhaps it’s good that it wasn’t possible as I might have been too caught up in “interesting things” and not enough in loving my fellow man.
 
When I wanted to be a priest (I was youuung), it was because I wanted to preach and actually have people listen/believe me, lol.

I also wanted to hear confessions and absolve sins. It must be really amazing to be God’s vessel.
 
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It must be really amazing to be God’s vessel.
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I never thought of stuff like that any more than I thought about the sacramental aspects of marriage.

I was thinking more like, “I bet I could manage an office, write some spiritual books, maybe get involved in politics, and I sure wouldn’t be ditching out on my vows to marry a nun.”
 
Your title for the post question reminds me of something a Wayne Newton impersonator would say that’s performing way way way off the Strip.
 
Marriage didn’t interest me when I was young and the ‘Holy’ aspects of marriage basically looked like suffering to me 😂
 
If there’s an emergency, I can already baptize. Other than that, there’s nothing that a priest can particularly do that I wish, want, desire, or am called to do.
 
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