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Berichte zur DIAKONINNENWEIHE 2004 I. PHOTOS Photos können unter www.bilderbox.at angeschaut werden Einzelne Photos sehen Sie auch hier
II. Berichte
Berichte aus deutschsprachigen Ländern,
aus englischsprachigen Ländern
und aus französischsprachigen Ländern
über die Diakoninnenweihe 2004:
I. Deutschsprachige Länder:
BERICHT VON MONIKA WYSS AUS DER SCHWEIZ:
Den Tag der Weihe erlebte ich als sehr symbolträchtig:
Ein strahlend schöner Tag! Zwischen dunkleren Tagen.
Genau zu dem Zeitpunkt als wir uns aus der ausgestreckten
Position erhoben, ging das Schleusentor auf!
Welch kraftvoller Ausdruck!
Im übrigen fühlte ich mich richtig zu Hause!
Mit allen Frauen und Männern einig in einer freien,
toleranten, unbeschwerten, christlichen
(so wie ich christlich verstehe) Kirche.
Es war einfach unbeschreiblich!
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II. Englischsprachige Länder:
BERICHT VON DR. VICTORIA RUE AUS AMERIKA:
The feeling after being ordained a deacon is palpable.
Itis as if my cells have been re-arranged in some new way.
Perhaps it is the "me" that I have always been---
now called out, affirmed, named and blessed.
The ceremony:
"Here I am, I am ready."
Said in English, French, German. A truly beautiful,
international liturgy.
We deacons-to-be spoke these words as responses several times
during the ceremony. The words were a bell, calling me into
the present moment. The prostration, not a feudal position
to a feudal lord, instead symbolized for me a full body
commitment to the life of a deacon.
During the prostration I listened to the myriad of saints names
we had all contributed to the sung litany. I had offered, Dorothee
Soelle, Cesar Chavez, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Catherine of Siena.
It seemed especially that I felt Dorothee's presence
energizing me as she always did as my muse.
Then to my knees, as Christine, Gisela and Rafael laid hands
on me. Christine's touch was light, musical.
Gisela hands felt like she was moving the left and right side
of my brain together. My partner Kathryn laid hands on me,
spoke in tongues and kissed the top of my head.
This was the moment, with Christine, Gisela, Rafael,
Kathryn and my parents, when the tears rushed, gushed up
in me. I looked up into their faces, Kathryn's spirit,
my mother and father as my birth givers. It was all about
birth. Something new being born in me. A song. A rhythm.
The ship had previously entered the locks on the Danube,
and the water was slowly lowering the whole boat to meet
the next part of the river. The laying on of hands seemed
to open the gates. And slowly, as the ceremony continued with
the giving of the stoles, the gates continued to open.
And so I entered, the boat entered, we all entered the new
river as new deacons, wearing stoles that imaged water,
flowing anew in us.
No models now. Uncharted waters. But a good sense of
direction from this ordination. More will we revealed to me.
A new journey has begun in my life.
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BERICHT VON DR. MICHELE BIRCH-CONERY AUS KANADA
In the nine days that have transpired since our
extraordinarily inclusive ceremony, I have gradually come
to some consciousness about what we experienced. Particular
scenes come to mind and in their remembrance, I find
enlargement rather than diminishment of the graces shared and received.
Anyone who has attended an ordination retains the image of the men
lying face down before their ordaining bishops. But when had we seen women
in this posture or in receiving the laying on of hands or in
concelebrating the Eucharist with other priests and bishops?
Only in other Christian denominations and in 2002 and in 2003
in the ordinations of the Danube seven and then, in the necessarily
more private ordination of Dr. Patricia Fresen, the spiritual director
of the carefully framed program opening this path to ordination
in the Roman Catholic Church.
Here we were, then, six more starting out and joining
the eight already held firm in the
courage, love and desire of their supporting communities.
The embrace of these people came through their words and their gifts
offered during the dinner that followed the ceremony already
beginning to feel like the wedding feast of Cana, prior to its conclusion.
Here we are, then, called and calling. We've left the this year's boat,
the Sissi that again embarked from Passau. Many, who were not physically
present, were with us in spirit. Perhaps some of them, too, will be with us--
'next year in Jerusalem.'
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In Südafrika erscheint folgender Artikel:
THE ORDINATION OF WOMEN
E Strivens & B. Piazza-Georgi
The question of the ordination of women has been a recurring subject
on the international Catholic scene. Here we review some major events
and positions taken, first of the movement favouring women's ordination,
then of the major affirmations of Church authority.
At the start of the Second Vatican Council, the presence of women was
not envisaged. (Barbara Ward, the famous Catholic economist, had her
paper read to the Council by a man.) At the urging of, among others,
Cardinal Leo Suenens, at the third session, 23 women (lay auditors) were
welcomed by Paul VI as the "first women...to participate in a conciliar
assembly".
In 1971, an international synod of bishops recommended establishing a
commission to study the situation of women in the Church, including the
possibility of ordination. In 1976, international biblical experts of
the Pontifical Biblical Commission concluded with a majority of 12 votes
to 5 that there were no scriptural objections to the priestly ordination
of women.
In 1975, the first Women's Ordination Conference (WOC) was held in Michigan,
receiving a strong response; it has turned into an active organisation.
After the fall of the Iron Curtain, information came to light that women
(the best-known, Rev. Ludmilla Javorova) had been ordained Catholic
priests behind the Iron Curtain and, for over twenty years, had
performed an irreplaceably valuable ministry.
During a first European Women's Synod (Gmunden, 1996), Catholic women
formed a network called /Women's Ordination Worldwide/. Since then
Catholics have launched similar organisations in many countries
including South Africa, where /Women's Ordination SA/ - /We are Church
/(a movement of women and men calling for full participation of women in
the Roman Catholic ministry) was launched in 1996 by theologian Dina
Cormick and Veliswe Mary Mkhwanazi. This organization publishes a
newsletter sharing information from Catholic reform organisations
worldwide as well as on local Catholic women's issues. 700 worldwide
representatives attended the second European Women's Synod (Barcelona,
2003).
Over the past decades numerous approaches to the Vatican on the issue
have had the support of a number of prominent priests; eg theologian Fr
John Wijngaards who resigned from the active priesthood in response to
/Ad Tuendam Fidem //(see below)./ The official Vatican stance was
reconfirmed early on, as this issue arose, in/ a Motu proprio/ (Sept.
1972) by Paul VI, who recalled Canon Law and the venerable tradition
that "only the baptised male can validly receive holy orders". This was
followed in 1976 by /Inter Insig-niores /(/Declaration on the Question
of the Admission of Women to the Ministerial Priesthood)/, which took
the position that the Catholic Church has never felt that priestly
ordination can be validly conferred on women.
In 1988 John Paul II brought out the encyclical /Mulieris Dignitatem/
(/On the Dignity of Women/) and in 1995, on the occasion of the UN
Beijing Conference, his First Letter to Women, with a similar focus.
While these documents contain important and sensitive points, many felt
that they stereotyped women in their traditional roles, without taking
into account the many possible roles that married and unmarried laywomen
undertake in our society. Both documents reiterate the incompatibility
of womanhood and priestly ordination. At the same time, the Vatican
statement of commitment presented at Beijing promised that it would
prioritise girls and women in its worldwide institutions.
In 1994 the apostolic (addressed to the bishops) letter /Ordinatio
Sacerdotalis/ (/On Reserving Priestly Ordination to Men Alone/) again
declares "that the Church has no authority whatsoever to confer priestly
ordination on women and that this judgment is to be definitively held by
all the faithful."
In 1998, the Pope issued the apostolic
letter /Ad Tuendam Fidem/, which makes additions to Canon Law and
obliges belief in what the magisterium declares to be definitively held
by those in ecclesial teaching positions under pain of sanction.
Cardinal Ratzinger commenting on this text warns against notions such as
women's ordination, discussion of abortion, euthanasia, fornication and
prostitution and speculates that dissenting Catholics would face the
possibility of excommunication.
In 2002 seven women were ordained as priests by Catholic bishops on a
ship on the Danube (to avoid legal issues pertaining diocesan
territories). Since then, two of these women, Christine
Mayr-Lumetzberger and Gisela Forster, have been consecrated bishops by
Catholic bishops whose names were kept secret in order to prevent severe
Vatican censure.
Whilst most South Africans have only been marginally aware of the above
events, we were thrown into the centre stage recently with the
ordination of our prominent SA theologian and Dominican, Dr Patricia*
*Fresen, on 7 August 2003 by the above-named, newly-ordained women bishops.
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Dr. Patricia Fresen, Ausbildungsleiterin schreibt zur Diakoninnenweihe:
SIX WOMEN ORDAINED AS DEACONS ON 26 JUNE 2004
On Saturday 26 June 2004, six women from five countries were ordained to
the diaconate on the ship 'Sissi' on the Danube. (Sissi was Elizabeth,
cousin to Louis II of Bavaria, Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary
at the end of the 19th century).
The three ordaining bishops were Bishop Christine Mayr-Lumetzberger,
Bishop Dr Gisela Forster and Bishop Rafael Regelsberger. The women who
were ordained are: Victoria Rue and Jillian Farley from the USA; Michele
Birch-Conery from Canada, Genevieve Beney from France, Monika Wyss from
Switzerland and Amelie Illner from Germany).
They are a highly-educated group: Victoria, Jillian and Michele all have
a Ph.D. and a very good theological background, Genevieve has a Licentiate in
theology and Monika is finishing her licentiate studies in theology.
Amelie is a 3rd year theology student.
This was the first public ordination by the two women bishops, who were
ordained to the episcopate so that they can ordain women to the priesthood.
The ordination on board ship was a moving experience. In the presence of
eighty guests, the bishops led the ceremony with dignity and
poise. The prayers, songs and readings were in three languages and
this gave the occasion a strong international flavour. Many moments will
remain with us: the prostration of the six women during the litany of
the saints, the laying-on of hands in total silence, with only the swish
of the water and the thrum of the engines in the background, the symbols
carried by the new deacons at the presentation of the gifts, the
intercessory prayers and the Eucharistic Prayer itself ... these were all
beautiful parts of the ceremony, which took two-and-a-half hours.
Congratulations on the deck were followed by a superb buffet lunch as we
sailed back to Passau, which was also the starting-point for the
ordinations in 2002. The ship itself was a powerful symbol of the
Church, sailing on one of the great rivers of the world and moving
through a series of locks, when the water level changed. The first
reading was from Galations 3, 26-28 (no longer Jew or Greek, male or
female, but all one in Christ Jesus) and Rom. 16, 3-5, where Paul
expresses his appreciation of the women deacons, Prisca and Aquila. The
Gospel reading was from Mark 4, 35 - 41, the story of the storm on the
lake of Galilee.
All six women will be ordained as priests during the next two years and
will find opportunities of ministry as they present themselves.
There were journalists and television teams present on the ship, a
report has already appeared in Austrian and Swiss newspapers and several radio
and television programs are planned.
Including the six newly-ordained women, there are 34 women
in the Training Program, so the Ordination Movement for women
is moving forward all the time.
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III. Französischsprachige Länder:
EIN BERICHT VON GENEVIEVE BENEY aus FRANKREICH:
*_Sur mon ordination au diaconat_* :
Au début de la cérémonie, pendant la procession d'entrée, l'émotion m'a
saisie et j'ai eu les larmes aux yeux. C'était d'une joie immense.
Après, tout au long des trois heures qu'ont duré l'ordination, j'ai
ressenti un grand calme intérieur et le sentiment dominant était que
j'étais exactement là où je devais être et que je faisais exactement ce
que je devais faire. J'étais dans une étape importante :
d'abord, d'avoir reconnu "ma vocation" et d'être enfin reconnue dans
celle-ci (ce fut pour moi un grand cadeau d'avoir pu faire la première
lecture en français de Ga 4,26-28 et Rm 16,3-5, de proposer une prière
d'intercession et de distribuer le pain, paroles et gestes que je
n'avais, en réalité, jamais pu faire auparavant, aussi bizarre que cela
puisse paraître, mais que je faisais-là comme si je les avais toujours
faits, sans râbachage cependant), ensuite, d'être dans le sérieux d'un
engagement. Donc, juste place à la croisée d'un chemin : à la fois,
aboutissement d'un mûrissement et nouveau départ, en toute liberté.
Pendant la "litanie des saints" et l'imposition des mains,
j'étais vraiment en communion intense avec toutes les personnes
présentes, et particulièrement avec les ordinandes (nous étions très
près l'une de l'autre et je faisais vraiment corps avec
elles) et avec toutes celles et tous ceux que j'avais emporté avec moi,
vivants ou morts qui avaient croisé ma vie, et avec les chrétiens et
chrétiennes, du passé ou de notre époque, que je n'avais jamais
rencontré-e-s. Quand nous nous sommes relevées après la prostration, le
bateau était dans une écluse fermée, comme un symbole de l'Eglise
bloquée ; puis, les portes de l'écluse se sont ouvertes et c'était comme
l'Eglise qui pouvait s'ouvrir de nouveau à l'Esprit Saint et continuer
d'avancer. Moment très fort pour tout le monde, je pense. Pendant
l'imposition des mains, le bateau était arrêté et sur place, tanguait un
peu : comme nous étions à genou, c'était un peu difficile pour moi de
garder l'équilibre, mais quand chaque personne m'imposait les mains,
cela m'équilibrait et ce fut aussi un moment très fort, je recevais
concrètement le soutien nécessaire pour mon engagement (à mon équilibre
physique, psychique, spirituel...) par les autres. Moment d'immense
tendresse de Dieu, très concrètement à travers ce geste des mains posées
sur ma tête, à la fois le même et différent selon les personnes : plus
doux ou plus appuyé, plus court ou plus long, plus tendre ou plus
dynamique...selon qui posait les mains.
Je garde aussi une grande joie de la participation active d'Albert, mon
mari, qui est protestant et qui a fait preuve d'une grande tolérance
en acceptant d'être-là, de me présenter, de me remettre l'étole, de
distribuer la communion en même temps que nous, nouvelles
diaconnesses, et de communier lui-même au pain et au vin.
Je pourrais dire encore bien d'autres choses, mais ce serait trop long,
alors je dis juste : merci.
Geneviève BENEY
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III. PARTNER und PARTNERINNEN begründen, warum die Frauen geweiht werden sollen:
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MAG. GENEVIEVE BENEY
Albert Ratz a dit:
Geneviève est née à Paris dans une famille catholique modeste. Son père
mourut prématurément, elle avait dix ans. Adulte, elle fut enseignante
en Education Physique avec compétence en danse moderne. Puis, elle
quitta l'enseignement pour étudier la Théologie à la Faculté Catholique
de Strasbourg. Mais, ses diplômes ne lui ont permis aucune fonction dans
l'Eglise. Néanmoins, elle espérait dans le Concile Vatican II qu'elle
voyait comme un commencement tout en constatant les blocages et,
parfois, les régressions.
Féministe convaincue, et aussi, à cause des circonstances de la vie,
elle resta célibataire jusqu'à 39 ans, vivant quelque peu à l'aventure
et se déplaçant, cherchant partout à se rendre utile. Elle finit par se
fixer dans le Sud de la France.
Je l'ai rencontrée lorqu'elle était devenue adhérente d'une petite
association de recherche et de protection du patrimoine local. Elle
participait aux fouilles archéologiques dont j'étais le responsable.
Quelque temps plus tard, ma première femme, rescapée d'Auschwitz est
morte. Geneviève m'a soutenu moralement dans cette épreuve. Un jour, en
1989, je l'ai invitée à dîner chez moi et depuis...elle n'est plus
repartie !
Puisque maintenant, elle ne devait pas quitter la pays, elle proposa ses
services à l'église locale, mais on la jugea trop différente de la
norme, on n'avait pas besoin d'elle...
Au même moment, elle découvrait l'existence de groupes catholiques
réformateurs. En 2001, elle participa, à Rome, au Synode du Peuple de
Dieu, parallèlement à l'Assemblée des Evêques. Un grand moment !
Aujourd'hui, c'est une nouvelle étape...
Je veux préciser que tous ceux qui connaissent bien Geneviève : sa
maman, ses frères, les trois enfants de mon premier mariage, nos amis
catholiques, protestants, agnostiques, non-croyants...ont tous exprimé
leur compréhension et sympathie pour ce qui se passent ici.
J'ajoute, qu'en France, certaines personnes ont dit qu'aujourd'hui,
elles se joignaient à notre prière.
übersetzt ins Deutsche:
Albert Ratz sprach:
Geneviève wurde in Paris geboren in einer einfachen katholischen
Familie. Ihr Vater verstarb sehr früh, als sie erst zehn Jahre alt war.
Sie wurde Sportlehrerin, spezialisiert auf modernen Tanz. Doch dann
verließ sie die Lehrerinnenlaufbahn, um Theologie zu studieren an der
katholischen Fakultät in Strassburg. Doch ihre Diplome eröffneten ihr
keinerlei Funktion in der Kirche. Sie war von Hoffnung erfüllt durch das
Zweite Vatikanische Konzil, das sie als einen Aufbruch betrachtete, auch
wenn sie immer wieder Stagnation und manchmal Rückschritte feststellen
musste.
Als überzeugte Feministin, und aus anderen Lebensumständen blieb sie
unverheiratet bis zu ihrem 39. Lebensjahr. Sie zog öfter um, ziemlich
ungebunden, immer danach trachtend, sich überall nützlich zu machen.
Schließlich ließ sie sich in Südfrankreich nieder.
Ich lernte sie kennen als sie Mitglied wurde in einem kleinen Verein für
die Bewahrung der lokalen Denkmäler. Sie nahm teil an archäologischen
Ausgrabungen, für die ich die Verantwortung trug.
Als einige Zeit später meine erste Frau, eine Überlebende von Auschwitz,
verstarb, begleitet mich Geneviève durch diesen Verlust. Eines Tages,
1989, lud ich sie zu mir zum Essen ein und seitdem \x{2026} ging sie nie mehr weg.
Da sie nun nicht mehr wegziehen musste, bot sie der lokalen Gemeinde
ihren Dienst an, doch man fand sie zu sehr von der Norm abweichend, und
man brauchte sie nicht\x{2026}..
Zu dieser Zeit entdeckte sie die Existenz von Kirchenreformgruppen. 2001
nahm sie in Rom an der Kirchenvolkssynode teil, die parallel zur
Bischofssynode stattfand. Ein großer Augenblick Heute beginnt ein neues
Kapitel\x{2026}
Ich möchte unterstreichen, dass alle, die Geneviève gut kennen, ihre
Mutter, ihre Brüder, die drei Kinder aus meiner ersten Ehe, unsere
Freunde, ob katholisch, protestantisch, agnostisch, nicht-gläubig\x{2026} alle
haben sie Verständnis gezeigt und Sympathie für das, was hier stattfindet.
Und ich möchte betonen, dass in Frankreich mehrere Menschen gesagt
haben, dass sie uns im Gebet begleiten
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Dr. JILLIAN FARLEY aus AMERIKA
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Dr. VICTORIA RUE aus AMERIKA
Kathryn said:
Victoria Rue has a vision of radical inclusion for those on
both sides of this eucharistic table--those serving and
receiving. As a theater director and feminist theologian
she believes that the church needs the theater
to rehearse this revolution.
On this side (those receiving),
she has helped students and marginal communities
tell their own stories--prison inmates,
women with AIDs and cancer, Christian lesbians,
Vietnamese immigrants.
Oh this side (those serving), she has enacted her
sense of calling through \x{201C}A Critical Mass\x{201D}--
women who have publicly served the eucharist in a run
down park which was the former site of St. Mary's Cathedral,
destroyed by the Oakland earthquake. For the last decade
they sanctified the space and the lives of the homeless people in the park.
This is an apt metaphor for what happens when women take the
authority due them in the church.
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Dr. MICHELE BIRCH-CONERY aus KANADA
Anne said:
Michele, Dr. Birch-conery, brings a lifetime of working
toward inclusionary practices to her role as deacon.
As an exemplary teacher and mentor, she continuously brings
out the best in her students through collaborative learning
methods that are always on the leading edge of contemporary
teaching models. As nurturer, her overarching goal is to
awaken the students' love for learning and encourage them on
their learning paths.
Michele is a poet, a visionary and a master of the English
language. As an author and a professor of English literature
she brings both a rich vocabulary and an extraordinary
ability to formulate striking metaphors with which she
deconstructs past exclusionary practices in language
and works to build new and inclusionary ones.
As a deeply spiritual person, Michele is committed to the
spirit of Sophia (wisdom) and how that might be enacted out
in real practice. Having been a health worker for many years,
she also feels she has a special ministry to the ill and
dying and thier families.
These are some of the talents Michele has been gifted
with and which she now brings back to an ongoing and
evolving church, a church signified by its growing visions
of inclusivities.
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MONIKA WYSS aus der SCHWEIZ:
Eli sagte:
Bereits als Kind erlebte Monika eine starke innere Bindung
an Jesus und Maria. Sie begleiteten sie ständig.
Schon damals spürte sie die Berufung zur Priesterin.
Mit dem heutigen Tag beginnt dieser Traum Wirklichkeit
zu werden.
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IV. SYMBOLE:
GENEVIEVE BENEY:
*_Symbole que j'ai apporté _: *
**
J'ai apporté des calissons, une pâtisserie du Sud de la France, faite
avec de la pâte d'amandes, fruits de l'amandier. L'amandier est un
arbre méditerranéen qui, chez nous, fleurit dès le mois de janvier et
qui porte bien son nom biblique de "veilleur" car il annonce le
renouveau printannier : en hébreu, c'est le même mot qui signifie amande
et Bèth-El ou Maison de l'Eternel ; l'amande est donc à la fois symbole
de fragilité, ses fleurs restant exposées aux derniers frimas de
l'hiver, et symbole d'immortalité divine. Je précise qu'Albert et moi,
nous habitons "rue des Amandiers", dans notre petit village, donc "rue
des Veilleurs" : tout un symbole aussi.
Ich habe Calissons mitgebracht, eine Süßigkeit aus Südfrankreich, die
aus Marzipan gefertigt wird, aus der Frucht des Mandelbaumes. Der
Mandelbaum ist ein Baum aus dem Mittelmeerraum, der bei uns im Januar
blüht und seinen biblischen Namen, nämlich der \x{201E}Wächter\x{201C} treffend trägt,
da er die Erneuerung des Frühlings ankündigt: auf Hebräisch bedeutet das
Wort Bèth-El sowohl Mandel als auch das Haus des Ewigen; die Mandel ist
also gleichzeitig das Symbol des Verletzlichkeit, denn ihre Blüten sind
den letzten Winterfrösten ausgesetzt, und das der göttlichen
Unsterblichkeit. Ich möchte dazu sagen, dass Albert und ich in der
Mandelbaumstraße wohnen, rue des Amandiers, in unserem kleinen Dorf,
also in der \x{201E}Wächterstrasse\x{201C}: ebenfalls ein Symbol.
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Dr. JILLIAN FARLEY:
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Dr. VICTORIA RUE:
I brought four symbols:
1.An icon of Cesar Chavez\x{2014}who championed
the plight of poor Latino migrant workers in California.
2.An icon of Harvey Milk\x{2014}the first elected
openly gay politician in the US.
He was elected to San Francisco\x{2019}s city council
and was martyred, shot,by another councilman.
3.Dorothy Day\x{2014}the founder of the Catholic Worker
and a journalist.
4.A button of the American flag\x{2014}with a
peace symbol imposed on it.
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Dr. MICHELE BIRCH-CONERY:
We brought a cruet of salt water from the Straight of
Georgia, just off the East Coast of Vancouver Island.
We placed it on the altar and after the ordination ceremony
we poured it into the calm, sunny waters of the Danube.
Sunny water for a golden day, the salt and other minerals
from North America and Germany merging to represent another
important offering towards change for women and men in the
initiative for the ordination of women in the Roman Catholic
Church. Thus began my further commitment to service in
Christian Community in an unfolding I can hardly imagine.
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MAG. MONIKA WYSS:
Als Symbol meines Landes habe ich gemeinsam mit meinen
Kindern eine kleine Kuhglocke ausgesucht,
da wir alle finden, dass das genau die Schweiz symbolisiert.
Jeder schliesst sofort auf unser Land.
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V. GEBETE
GENVIEVE BENEY:
*_Prière d'intercession_* :
Tout au long de notre chemin vers l'ordination, des personnes nous ont
accompagnées et aidées, d'autres ont eu du mal à comprendre ou même ont
voulu nous empêcher. Je confie à votre prière toutes ces personnes,
celles qui nous sont hostiles aussi bien que celles qui sont amies.
*_Bittgebet_* :
Auf unserem Weg zur Weihe haben und Menschen begleitet und unterstützt,
andere hatten es schwer, zu verstehen oder sie haben gar versucht, uns
daran zu hindern. Ich möchte alle diese Menschen unserem Gebet
anvertrauen, die die uns feindlich gesonnen sind und die, die uns
Freunde sind.
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Dr. JILLIAN FARLEY:
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Dr. VICTORIA RUE
For the Roman Catholic Church. May the winds of the Ruach
blow through the corridors of the Vatican,
opening wide the windows and doorways with a new
understanding of the incarnation as a celebration of the body,
a celebration of sexuality, a celebration of lesbian and gay
people.
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Dr. MICHELE BIRCH-CONNERY:
I pray for a Church that fines the courage to examine
and relinquish its exclusionary practices and that,
in christian Commujities, we embrace inclusivity.
Let us pray that we experience, completely,
"how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ
and that we come to know this love that surpasses knowledge"
and may we "be filled to the measure of all the fullness of
our Mother and Father, Our Sister and Brother, our Friend
and Lover--God. Ephesians 3:17-19.
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MAG. MONIKA WYSS
Mutter und Vater unser, bitte erweitere das Bewusstsein
der Menschen, damit wir alle erkennen,
dass die Nächstenliebe der einzige Weg zur Erlösung ist.
Nächstenliebe ohne Einschränkung, ohne Vorurteile.
Mit Deiner Unterstützung und dem Vorbild von Jesus Christus,
können wir durch diese Liebe nur gewinnen und nichts,
aber auch gar nichts verlieren, denn sie ist die Grundlage
eines jeden erfüllten Lebens.
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VI. UNTERSTÜTZENDE WORTE:
Hello,
We are a Spanish Catholic group called "Women and Theology - Zaragoza".
We wish to express
our support to the ORDINATION FOR WOMEN group. For us, this is a very
important issue
for the Catholic Church.
We want to thank your efforts and fight for the women's dignity. It's
not possible for us to attend to the coming ordintation, but will be
with us, accompanying you from Zaragoza - Spain.
Our prayers and blessings.
*Mujeres y Teología - Zaragoza*
mujeresyteologiazaragoza@hotmail.com
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