[Sundaycommunity] Fwd: Catholic Network for Women's Equality Fwd: If you want some basics about fem. theo and womanist theo. this is a good intro.

[Brian Shaughnessy]

Interesting, Catherine.
I can see these are "high-powered women scripture scholars feeling held
back, which is Rita's main problem with our hierarchical Church -- how they
seem to treat women as 2nd-class citizens.

I would love to see what these women could come up with were they to pore
over the 4,000 or 5,000 pages of Maria Valtorta's life of Christ.

Is the apparent 2nd-class treatment real or, as I think He would say
somehow, "just"?

Check out this "mystical feminine priesthood" and His "Aunt Mary" being "a
bright star in the Christian sky".
___________________________________

When they are near St. Peter's house, his wife runs to meet her husband and
says something to him.  Peter beckons Jesus to go near him.
"The mother of James and Judas is here.  She wants to speak to You but does
not want to be seen."

They arrange that Jesus will go into the house as if wanting to rest, while
they all go and give alms to the poor.  Mary of Alphaeus goes up onto
Peter's terrace-roof where she and Jesus will have more privacy than in the
house.

She is dressed completely in black, with her veil pulled over her face,
weeping silently.

"Mary, My dear aunt!"

"Jesus, how sad at heart I am!"

My Alphaeus... my children...  Why is there so much difference between
those who are of the same blood?  Such difference as hard as millstones to
crush a mother's heart.

Are Judas and James with You?...  Then You know.  Why does my Alphaeus not
understand?  Why is he dying, and why does he want to die like that?  And
Simon and Joseph?  Why are they against You and not with You?"

Jesus:  "I bear them no grudge.  I am sorry for them.  If that is the
reason for your crying, please cry no more."

Mary of Alphaeus:   "They offend You.  I do not want my husband to die
being hostile to You.  God will not forgive him.  And I will not have him,
even in future life".

Jesus:  "Do not say that.  I forgive, and if I forgive..."

Aunt Mary:   "Oh come, Jesus.  Come and save his soul and his body.  People
are saying, also to accuse You, that You have taken two sons away from a
dying man.
'He works miracles everywhere, but He is not capable of working them in His
own home.'   Work a miracle for Your poor aunt!"

Jesus:  "I cannot.  If it were the right thing to do, I would do it.  You
are now so broken-hearted that you cannot understand the Justice of my
inability.  When it was
the hour of My father's death, I did not bring him back to life again.  It
is not just that a family should be exempt from the inevitable misfortunes
of life only because
one of its members is a holy person.

I will soon die, and Mary, My holy Mother, will not be able to snatch Me
from death.

I promise peace for your Alphaeus on account of your pain, and I give you
assurance you will not be separated from him, and I give you My word that
our family will
be united again in Heaven for ever.

As long as I live and even afterwards, I will grant you so much peace and
so much strength that you will become MY APOSTLE [caps throughout mine] for
so many
poor women whom it will be easier for you, a woman, to contact.  You will
be My beloved friend in this time of evangelization.

Alphaeus's death -- do not cry -- will free you from the duties of a wife
and will raise you to the more sublime status of A MYSTICAL FEMALE
PRIESTHOOD so
necessary near the altar of the Great Victim and amongst so many heathens,
who will yield more willingly to the holy heroism of female disciples than
of male
ones. Oh, your name, dear aunt, will be like A BRIGHT STAR IN THE CHRISTIAN
SKY.

Do not cry any more.  Go in peace.  Be strong, resigned and holy.  My
Mother became a widow before you, and will console you as She can console.

Come.  I do not want you to go away in this heat.  Peter will take you in
his boat as far as the Jordan and then go to Nazareth on a donkey.  Be
good."

Aunt Mary:  "Bless me, Jesus.  Give me strength."

Jesus:  "Yes  I bless you and kiss you, My good aunt."

And He kisses her tenderly, pressing her for a long time to His heart,
until he sees that she has calmed down.

aptYLJC,Twbd,ttM


On Mon, Jan 18, 2021 at 6:47 PM Catherine Walther via Sundaycommunity <
sundaycommunity at lists.integralshift.ca> wrote:

> This is a short video where women theologians speak about their
> experiences as women theologians.  I think it would be great for both women
> and men to hear.  Hopefully you'll pass it on to others you think might
> benefit from it, especially the priests in the group.  There's not going to
> be a change in the RC church until those who benefit from patriarchy listen
> and actually change, despite the fact that there are more women Catholics
> than men in the church.
> Enjoy,  Catherine
>
>
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