Women proclaiming Advent
December 2, 2011, 6:43 pm
Posted by Joseph A. Komonchak
The Woodstock Theological Center at Georgetown University is giving women an opportunity to proclaim Advent by giving talks on the Sunday readings. Here is an example, given by Elizabeth McCloskey, one-time Commonweal columnist, who is completing her doctoral dissertation in spirituality at the Catholic University of America.
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The Woodstock Theological Center at Georgetown University is giving women an opportunity to proclaim Advent by giving talks on the Sunday readings. Here is an example, given by Elizabeth McCloskey, one-time Commonweal columnist, who is about to complete her doctoral dissertation in spirituality at the Catholic University of America.
My parish has been doing this for at least 3 years. And non-Catholic Christians of both genders. And Hindus, Moslems, Jews and Buddhists.
Thank you for sharing this reflection. I enjoyed it so much and so did my 11 year old daughter.
Wonderful! I associate Advent with pregnancy, the giving birth of Jesus in his human incarnation and also the birth of the Word. I was also pregnant in Advent twice. So, for me, having women offer their thoughts at this time is especially moving.
As a point of clarification: the non-Christian speakers we had were for Lenten vespers, not Advent vespers. They were particularly able to associate readings from out gospels with related readings from their sacred books around the concept of Lent. Advent would most likely be way too much of a push for them.
The perspective of someone other than an ordained Catholic male can be quite enlightening and a very pleasant change.
No doubt, Jimmy, but where do you stop?
Why must one stop? If someone opines in a manner that the recipients of such an opinion determine it to be wrong/nonsense/whatever, they will act accordingly.
Adults have to make a choice sometime. There are times that clerics and other “authorities” break out in shingles in the face of ambiguity; most “non-authoritative” laity live with it each day in their homes, jobs and social life.
Way too many church professionals constantly view the faithful as so befuddled that, without unctuous instruction, they would confuse the holy water fountain with a birdbath