I understand. Including Orthodox wouldn’t so much be for you, it would be for us.
Anyone who values tradition would naturally look to the East to show the way on how deaconesses could work. If we really wanted to do this right we should be sitting down and talking to people who have an unbroken tradition of it and who still live it.
I suspect though, that that won’t happen because the people involved know that the Eastern example won’t provide them what they really want: ordination to the priesthood and the episcopacy.
“I suspect though, that that won’t happen because the people involved know that the Eastern example won’t provide them what they really want: ordination to the priesthood and the episcopacy.”
I suspect you are right. The mindsets of the Latin and Eastern Churches are sooooooo different. I don’t envy you folks potentially ending up with a bunch of “priestesses” the like of which we have all seen on line over the past few years. Shrill, dramatic, too holy for words, like our convert priests who are oh so much more holy than us “cradle” types and who carry with them a “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” phronema!