Iselin Aspen
1 min readJul 16, 2021

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Women can not be priests based upon what the priesthood is, not because they are “stupid" or “less eloquent or caring".

You obviously do not believe that a priest is impowered with something supernatural. If your view is that you become a priest after a certain education/seminary, then you have a Protestant view of the priesthood. (Which is fine, if that’s what you believe).

But if you become a priest after having received an anointment, by the laying on of hands by someone who has received a special power (through an unbroken chain of bishops, first from Jesus himself and then on to the Apostles), then you receive the power to change bread and wine into flesh and blood, and the power to loosen someone from their sins.

It is the traditional teaching handed down throughout almost 2000 years, (but even before that, since the Christian sacrifice is a continuation and perfection of the Jewish temple sacrificial rite.) that this miraculous characteristic is only manifested in men, just like pregnancy is only manifested in women. So why would someone adore a sacrifice that doesn’t change into flesh and blood? This has nothing to do with gender equality.

Only with belief in the Tradition that the sacraments derive from or a rejection of it. Which is your choice of course.

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Iselin Aspen
Iselin Aspen

Written by Iselin Aspen

Busy mum, blogger and musician, trying to thrive in Scandinavia. I write about freedom, history, nature, hypocrisy and anything that tickles my mind.

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