[ninenot]

Neat tagline--

It is heartwarming to hear of your daughter's service.

I think you understand that the exclusively male priesthood is directly descended from the Levites/Temple, through Christ, the High Priest, and so on....

Service 'inside the railing' at the altar was restricted to men and boys for that reason, until a perverse (that IS the word) group of individuals, the LiturgyPoofterWonks, through massive disobedience and in a campaign specifically created to browbeating Rome into submission, finally won liceity for their practice.

In a way, it's almost too big to be believed--but I fear that this situation in the Episcopalian Church is even more advanced---and you are painfully aware of that.

Best wishes to you in your journey. Still have friends down near you who I am SURE would make the trip to meet/greet you at the door of a Catholic church...

[AnAmericanMother]

What's even more amazing is that my daughter herself (even with her devotion to her duty) understands the necessity for a male priesthood. Aside from the obvious traditional issues (and the role of the priest as imago Christi) she herself sees the difference between the way a male priest (even a sorta liberal Father Granola one) and a female priest behave at the altar. There IS a difference.

We in the Episcopal church have had the opportunity to observe the dynamic of priestesses in action. As a hippie child of the 60s and 70s, I initially saw nothing wrong with it, but actual practice has changed my mind. My advice: don't go there.

[AnAmericanMother]

And thanks for your kind wishes.

(I stole the tagline from the Vulgate). :-D