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Emma Kenworthy's avatar

I am a capable, independently-minded female. I have thrived on bringing up four children, an extremely Godly-feeling, instructive, nourishing occupation. I have an elderly husband whom I adore and love to serve. I love God with all my heart. I have been through a great deal of tragedy and come through it with the help of God. That is the context.........in which I will say with entire conviction: I cannot be DOING with priestesses; I wince, I shy away; sorry, but women are not suited to this role. Are they then inferior? Not in the slightest; but: it is a role for a man, and that is a fact; I can feel it in every bone in my body; I look......even at a little thing like the Radio4 Daily Service, to see: is it a man today? most of the time, increasingly, the answer is No. Women can be so over-emotional; yes those emotions are wonderful for relating to the family, a brilliant tool; but in the spiritual sphere, they can be really inappropriate - too subjective, too woolly, too inconsistent. I absolutely wince when I hear a gushing female voice in the church context - it is overpowering, it is too much about Me, whoever that woman is, not enough about God. I go to church to commune with my Maker, not to have the emotionsl of some female getting in the way. Even my local cathedral, the Dean.....has such a COOING voice 😡 I need male calmness, male representation of God my father; oh how reassuring it is to call God Father. Well, that says it all, I do not want a WOMAN conveying that to me, I want a man to do so, to direct me to the Father, the Father who is my pillar of strength. I - as a woman - can thrive, and yes be empowered, through being nurtured in this way.

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Nathaniel Richards's avatar

The Fatherhood of God is the salve to our wounds in this time (and indeed at all times). To be without paternity is to be an orphan. To be a Christian is to accept the adoption of God the Father through Christ the Son. As Christ says in Hebrews, echoing Isaiah: “Behold I and my children, whom God hath given me.” (Heb ii. 13)

Women’s ordination, while a mockery of the Sacrament of Orders, is more aptly a disturbing message to God: Non serviam. By believing the Evil One’s lie that the only good one can do to serve the Church is through being a cleric, the female “ordinand” in diluting the fatherhood of God, takes on the patrimony of Satan.

Her mind taken with the chaos of the diabolic, the faux bishop in question has no choice but spew the lies of racism and patricide. May God spare her of this evil, grant her the grace to abandon her role, and the clarity to see the true vocation He has prepared for her.

Crux sacra sit mihi lux! Non Draco sit mihi dux!

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