Female Deacons

[sistersintigo]

[quote name='sistersintigo' timestamp='1282578892' post='2162018']
Be not dismayed, fearless poster who started this thread. There is a deeper reason for the humor and levity and irreverence of some of the responses.
If you used Phatmass Phorum's search function, you will discover older, longer threads on this very topic. Some of the threads have been closed/locked. If you take the time and trouble to look at the posts, you will know why. This topic is a flaming one, it gets heated quickly and people get burned!
This is especially true on the sub-phorum of Vocation Station, where a number of "deaconess" thread topics have appeared in the past.
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Check 'em out:
[url="http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/index.php?showtopic=48018"]http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/index.php?showtopic=48018[/url]
[url="http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/index.php?showtopic=89030"]http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/index.php?showtopic=89030[/url]
[url="http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/index.php?showtopic=72950"]http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/index.php?showtopic=72950[/url]
[url="http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/index.php?showtopic=34210"]http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/index.php?showtopic=34210[/url]
[url="http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/index.php?showtopic=34056"]http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/index.php?showtopic=34056[/url]
[url="http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/index.php?showtopic=23143"]http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/index.php?showtopic=23143[/url]

[elizabeth09]

Cool, but they do not change my mind about having females as deacons, because cannot.

Edited August 25, 2010 by elizabeth09

[sistersintigo]

[quote name='Katholish' timestamp='1282616675' post='2162306']
In regards to another point brought up, it was common for Medieval prioresses and Mother Superiors to be honored in their cloisters almost to the same degree as a bishop. Not only might have have donned a stole for ceremonial functions, but they were also known to have rings of office and carry crosiers. The significance of these signs of office greatly developed in the aftermath of the Investiture Crisis, and such uses all but became extinct as they became more solidly associated with the spiritual power belonging to bishops alone.
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Katholish has an excellent point here: the issue of holding office is a separate one from conferring minor orders.

To that end, what I could locate in recent scholarship on Carthusian monasteries of cloistered nuns, I have posted upon a thread in Vocation Station. If you choose, you can link to that specific post [url="http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/index.php?showtopic=102274&view=findpost&p=2163675"]here.[/url]