Posted on 06/09/2022 5:19:04 PM PDT by ebb tide
The archdiocese said two Protestant ministers will observe and provide input at the Synod.
TWIN CITIES, Minnesota (LifeSiteNews) – A Eucharistic Procession on Sunday for the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis included two Protestant ministers, one of whom is a female “bishop.”
The archdiocese included the Eucharistic Procession as part of its Synod Assembly. The Catholic Church teaches that the Eucharist is the literal Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity of Jesus Christ.
Ann Svennungsen, a “bishop” of the Minneapolis Area Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), can be seen in liturgical vestments processing out of church after male altar servers and several laity, but before Catholic priests. Jerad Morey, a United Methodist Church minister, is seen next to Svennungsen, wearing a white surplice. He is a strategic relationships director with the Minnesota Council of Churches.
“I thought it was significant that we would invite representatives from our separated brothers and sisters from our other Christian communities here in the Twin Cities,” Archbishop Bernard Hebda said, according to the archdiocesan newspaper The Catholic Spirit. He invited them “to ask for their prayers for this effort and also to keep them abreast of what’s going on in our archdiocese, but also to be able to hear their perspective on the questions that they’re facing in their polities, too.”
“There’s always that desire that Jesus has, that all of his followers would be united,” Abp. Hebda said. “And so even though that’s an imperfect unity at this moment, to be able to engage our brothers and sisters who are Christian in this effort — and really, Bishop Svennungsen and Reverend Morey are representatives of those communities much more broadly — is a way for us to really be mindful of the gifts that they bring to the broader Church of those who follow Christ in our archdiocese as well.”
“Except for voting, the Protestant observers will participate in every way as the other 500 delegates to the Synod, said Father Joseph Bambenek, the Synod’s assistant director,” Catholic Spirit reported. “They are contributing with other Synod members in discussions throughout the assembly, Father Bambeneck said.”
LifeSiteNews emailed the archbishop’s listed email, his executive assistant Patrice Zangs, and the communications office for the archdiocese on Thursday morning but did not receive a response.
LifeSiteNews asked if either Morey or Svennungsen had expressed any interest in becoming Catholic, what expertise they bring to the table, and if the archdiocese asked the two to wear vestments or if it knew ahead of time they would. LifeSiteNews also asked, to no avail, if the archdiocese believed Svennungsen dressing like a priest could cause confusion because only men can be priests.
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LifeSiteNews contacted Bob Hulteen, the communications director for the Minneapolis Area Synod of the ELCA on Thursday morning to ask questions of Svennungsen. LifeSiteNews asked if she had any interest in becoming Catholic, what she hoped to see changed in the Catholic Church, and what she believes the Eucharist represents.
He said Svennungsen was not available because she was traveling but he would try to get answers from her by phone. No further response was received by publication time.
Ping
A joy-filled, blind, Haitian former-pastor at the dialysis clinic where I work keeps repeating “Jesus is Coming!” I hope he’s right.
Holy Spirit, cleanse Your Church.
The ELCAs do believe in something very close to but not exactly the Real Presence. The UMCs don’t believe in much of anything that I can see.
The ECLA does not have valid “bishops”, let alone female bishops.
Hebda is an apostate.
These two groups (RC and ELCA) have much in common, not the least of which is disregard for the clear meaning of the Bible on the matters of ordination and of manmade tradition.
What denominations, in your estimation, get ordination right?
So says one who is in a manmade “church”.
Sorry, not interested.
Minds so open that their brains fall out
1 Timothy 2:12
There’s a reason why I’m not a Lutheran.Why would I want Lutheran “clergy” involved in any church service I attend?
The ELCA isn’t Really Lutheran either; so, maybe, you have something in common with them.
The evangelical lutherns aren’t considered very luthern by other lutherns. They wish the evangelical lutherns would take luthern out of their name. Missouri synod is very conservative and traditional. Don’t judge lutherns by the evangelical lutherns.
The Catholic Church is going to usher in the antichrist. Most of what they teach goes against the bible. Anyone who goes with catholic beliefs, get out now.
Go find yourself a Jim Jones, roving.
He’ll “save” you.
She is as Lutheran as the pope is Catholic.
I think the antichrist will be atheist, and while there are many Truths Bible Christians hold in common with what Catholicism art least professes, yet distinctive Catholic teachings are not manifest in the only wholly God-inspired, substantive, authoritative record of what the NT church believed (which is Scripture, in particular Acts through Revelation, which best shows how the NT church understood the gospels)
Which includes "The Catholic Church teaches that the Eucharist is the literal Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity of Jesus Christ" which is not as the literal manifestly physical Body and Blood in His incarnation, and who never appeared as any inanimate object, but it is that of non-existent bread and wine that is said to be the true body and blood of Christ, though such look, etc (and decays, and when visible, Christ is no longer locally present under that appearance) and would test to be just as they appear, as did and would the incarnated body of Christ (and a purely literal reading of Lord's supper means this blood flesh is what the apostles saw). Thus this fantasy and problem is explained via a metaphysical contrivance.
Back tommorow, by the grace of God.
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