Alright, I've had it. Taking my pup out in the middle of the night, I quickly logged on to the net and found this musical butchery:
Women's ordination is a non-issue. I as a male am not fuming and protesting and putting out horrifically bad music because I cannot become a nun. I am not angry that my gender prevents me from becoming a Mother Superior. Nor am I protesting that I cannot be a monastic or a priest in my own Latin Rite because I am married. Do I, as a man, make a fuss over the fact that the highest and most exalted human being in the entire history of the human race is a woman, the Blessed Virgin Mary? Do I sit and stew in my own juices that a man should be higher than the Virgin Mary? No. It is a non-issue. To me, it is not based on inequality of the sexes, but the complimentarity of them - we have different roles, different strengths, and different weaknesses.
In the meantime, as per my custom everytime a brutally awful song like this is put out in the world of the Church, I will offer other songs for musical reparation, and as a reminder that beauty in the faith still exists.
You may be frustrated, but I love your second paragraph. Tomorrow or after I willmentioned in my blog.
ReplyDeleteHappy new year in Christ for you and your family.
Best regards,
Pedro
Hey Pedro,
DeleteThanks - I took the post down briefly only because I wondered whether the polemical nature of it would do any good. I don't like to write like that to be honest - but the whole thing had me so frustrated...
Happy New Year as well to you and yours!
Jason
Amen. I share your sentiments - it's scandalous.
ReplyDeleteYour readers might be interested to know that Orthodox monasticism is a unisex institution. Even the habits are identical, except an Orthodox nun wears an apostolnik, which looks like a loose wimple. (Byzantine Catholic communities are returning to this tradition, such as Holy Theophany Monastery in Olympia, Washington and Christ the Bridegroom Monastery in Ohio.) The novice in one picture is wearing a white one.
ReplyDeleteAlso, once the scissors have been applied to one's head and a klobuk put on it, one is addressed as either Father or Mother (depending on sex), even if not in orders or a superior.
Hey Jack,
DeleteVery interesting - thanks for the info on this!
Pax,
Jason
I just wanted to say that your reparation was successful even for me - even though the Ordain A Lady video was referenced by many other blogs, your two videos here have stayed more in my mind, for their beauty and reverence.
ReplyDeleteHi Nicholas,
DeleteThat's great to hear!
Jason
John Paul the Great settled the issue with "Sacerdotalis Ordinatio". We will, I think, have to put up with those who refuse to understand that all the popes and ecumenical councils put together do not have the authority to act against the essence of a sacrament.
ReplyDeleteThere was a small mistake in the original post of the kind we all make when we are emotional. Jesus is the highest and most exalted human being in history; Mary is the highest and most exalted human person, as Jesus is a divine person, not a human one. (Council of Ephesus, Pope St. Leo the Great.) That is why we can call Mary the Mother of God.
In my experience, people who refer to "the spirit of the Second Vatican Council have rarely read any of what the bishops wrote. The Council changed no dogma. It reinforced many.
Hi Anon.,
DeleteThanks for the correction - totally didn't mean to make an unorthodox statement there!
Pax,
Jason