Liturgy and Discrimination
A Defective Rendering of Liturgy
How do people
who are excluded
by the gender/sexual policies of church hierarchy
cope
during Liturgy?
How do they deal with
the marginalization presented in the present rendition
of Liturgy?
How do we get a Christ-Like
all-inclusive Liturgy
we deserve?
The hierarchy’s use of exclusive language
cuts Sisters-in-Christ
right out of existence,
to say nothing of the
Feminine Aspect of the Divine.
It overlooks the incredible amount of service
given to family, church, society
by females.
It exemplifies the gender discrimination
actively in place by the hierarchy.
It tells the youth
that this discrimination is acceptable,
even God-intended.
It evokes in me—a male,
Grief, Anger, Frustration.
I refuse to be passive or complicit
in a liturgy that is harmful
to individuals and
to community.
Throughout the liturgy,
to myself
and outloud
I change the words.
It is not
for us men and our salvation!
God’s pronouns
are not only he and his.
Mother and Father
works for God.
Creator, Savior, Sanctifier
works better than
Father, Son, Holy Spirit.
God is not only Lord, King, Master,
but Mother, Nurturer, Healer, Caregiver.
And the Holy Spirit
is always
She.
I will no longer be party to voicing an ok
to the submission and subjugation of women
in liturgical rendition.
The Time of being Silent
is over.
I will continue to try to render
a version of Liturgy
both to myself and Outloud
that befits
Christ’s life and message
of
Inclusiveness
and
Non-discrimination.
Join me?
John Chuchman
John, For your sensitivity,
John,
For your sensitivity, and your courage in
expressing your outrage against the verbal
discrimination of women, I thank you.
For recognizing the great services rendered to
Jesus, his Church, and to the entire human community
by women over the centuries, I thank you.
For pointing out the fact that although God is
androgynous, only God's masculine attributes
are celebrated during the prayers of the liturgy,
I thank you.
And for being both a passionate and compassionate
person, who loves what you believe, and lives
what you love, I thank you.
With love,
Little Bear
Please feel free to join an
Please feel free to join an ecclesiastical community which better reflects YOUR Views. Because as you are aware, it's all about you, John.
The Church's infallible Magisterial Teaching cannot change based on the will of the people. Your opinion and my opinion do not matter. The Church is NOT a democracy.
If you cannot or will not submit to the will of God, may God have mercy on your soul.
mfranks: re: infallible
mfranks: re: infallible magisterial teachings
The problem with infallibility is that all it takes is one error and infallibility is no longer valid.
Ex. 1 of many many possibilities:
Under infallibility, the church taught hell for sinners. In 1998, JPII acknowledged this was error. Hell as had been traditionally taught by the church simply does not exist. The teaching of the magisterium was in error. The doctrine of infallibile Magisterial Teaching failed, and as such is no longer valid.
mfranks: if you were to look
mfranks:
if you were to look in the mirror when you wrote this, would your face be radiant with the light of Christ's love, or screwed up into a dark hateful scowl??
no need to answer, the words you wrote have already answered the question.
mfranks, How
mfranks,
How Un-Christlike!
You sound like a rep of the hierarchy in place during Jesus' time.
His life and message were
NON-Bureaucratic,
INCLUSIVE,
and disruptive.
Institutional church today??
Love, John
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