Two diocesan bishops – Limerick and Kildare & Leighlin – indicated recently that they intend to proceed with asking lay men (only) to consider becoming deacons.
Theologian Angela Hanley spoke about the diaconate ministry, which was open to women, and its history to Monica Morley on Midwest Radio on Sun 3rd Oct 2021.
Western People 26.9.23. I suspect I’m not the only one who finds the Garda plebiscite on Commissioner Drew Harris as more than a bit weird. It’s not just the extraordinary…
Link to Newsletter No 3: https://mailchi.mp/synod/synodassemblynewsletter-issue-03-en
Seamus Ahearne watched an ordination to the diaconate. “The simple gesture of granny Pola taking each child up for Communion with her arms around them was special. It oozed with love. There is real diaconate. I couldn’t help wondering if celibacy makes for detached-faith and non-incarnational religion.”
This year the WAC Ireland Advent Liturgy will be in the Chapel, Mercy International Centre, 64A Baggot Street, Dublin 2.
Please join us on Sunday 01 December 2019 at 3.00pm for our Advent liturgy followed by a cup of tea and time to talk about Pope Francis and reform of our church. Our collection this year will be for CONCERN.
Western People , 5.3.2024 When the novelist Philip Roth wrote The Plot Against America in 2004, alternative history fiction was not regarded as a very credible literary formula. Roth imagined…
Seamus Ahearne was somewhat redundant on Sunday morning. “I read the Morning Prayer very slowly. I had to do it out-loud. Otherwise, it was in danger of being rushed thoughtlessly. And my mind retreated to the past. The long distant past.”
Angela Hanley on the diaconate.
Plus ça change,plus c’est la même chose… Nothing learnt from the Killaloe diocese experience 7 years ago.
https://www.thetablet.co.uk/news/3981/killaloe-women-want-diaconate-funds-diverted-to-laity.
Never mind all the talk about a listening church and walking together, this is what patriarchy looks like.
I agree with all you said Angela. As for the diaconate as presently structured I fail to understand how any man can join a set-up that is patriarchal and misogynistic. Is it true that married men who join promise not to remarry if their wife dies?
Angela Hanley on deacons…:
Yes Phil, it is true that married deacons promise in a document signed before ordination not to re-marry should their wife die.
Angela Hanley on the diaconate.
Further to Phil#2 and John#3
https://www.ncronline.org/blogs/ncr-today/widowed-deacon-remarries-gets-laicized
Angela Hanley on Deacons…
The creepiness of the church’s attitude to love and to women emerges here in a peculiarly insidious and irritant way.
Today I discovered that a good Danish friend of mine is a direct descendant of Martin Luther.
‘If there had been no Reformation, I would not exist,’ he wryly remarks.
Angela Hanley on the history of the diaconate ministry.
John@4 and Soline @5, what can you say but ” OH my God !!.
Totally embarrassing!