All ministries that exercise Christ’s priesthood are essential.
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Category: Lay Ministry
Different Vesture for Male and Female Servers?
“I am way beyond upset. We don’t need to be reminding women and girls that they are second class citizens in the Church.”
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The One Word of God in Many Voices
The diversity of voices that proclaim our Scriptures in the liturgy are a kind of aural icon of the infinite fulness of the Word spoken in eternity.
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Proclaiming the Word – in many ways!
Is there ‘a’ right way to proclaim the Scriptures?
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The Prayer of the Faithful and the Deacon
Why the Roman Missal wants the deacon to read the intentions of the Universal Prayer.
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Without Deacons, Priests Cannot Exercise Their Office in the Celebration of the Eucharist: A Voice from the 7th Century
A priest that “can do everything himself” is unthinkable for St. Isidore.
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Warning: Girl Altar Servers May Cause Bad Liturgy!
What happens when women are involved with liturgy? According to a 2015 article, when females are involved with liturgy, we get bad liturgy.
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Reading DW #4: Where Are We on Ministry?
Ministry remains a difficult question between Catholics and Lutherans. DW helps to map the differences and see which are church-dividing and which are not.
Read moreIn the Face of Death: A Ritual for Those Present at the Moment of Dying
The Diocese of Speyer, Germany, has created a brief ritual for those accompanying the dying and present at the moment of death. Different from the Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick, this blessing ritual (Sterbesegen) may be used by anybody, lay or ordained.
Read moreShared Ministry and Divine Grace: Restoring the Diaconate in Orthodoxy
Note: This essay was first published by Public Orthodoxy, a blog of the Orthodox Christian Studies Center at Fordham University, on March 7, 2016. Republished
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