THE ORATORY SOCIETY / CELTIC CATHOLIC SOCIETY FULLY SUPPORTS THE ORDINATION OF WOMEN AS DEACONS, PRIESTS AND BISHOPS.
BISHOP PAT'S FIRST ORDINATION - A WOMAN
On September 14th 1998 Bishop Pat ordained his first priest - Frances Meigh - who had been a missionary, a nun and a hermit.
The ordination took place in St. Andrew's Church, Omeath, Co. Louth, Ireland at 4pm. The former Church of Ireland (Anglican) church was crowded for the occasion.
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Pricilla was a priest in early Rome. She is pictured in the catacombs presiding at the Eucharist as a priest.
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Saint Brigid of Ireland with St Patrick is the patron saint of Ireland.
She is reputed to have been ordained Priest and Bishop by Saint Mel of Longford.
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A woman called Joan, pretending to be a man, was ordained deacon and priest.
She pursued a successful career in The Vatican and was eventually elected Bishop of Rome and Pope.
She is pictured here in the Papal Tiara.
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St. Therese of Liseaux is reputed to have been ordained on her death bed by a sympathetic bishop convinced of her holiness and her vocation to priesthood.
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Ludmila Javorova (born 1932) was ordained a priest by Bishop Felix Maria Davidek (1921-1988) in Yugoslavia.
The regime in Yugoslavia was persecuting the Church and Davidek ordained several women priests. The regime would never suspect that these women were secret priests.
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BENEDICT
(BY: FRANCES CROAKE)
Among the animals in the cold dank dark of a stable,
After the pain and the bleeding and the birthing;
Mary looked down at the baby lying across her legs
And said: "THIS IS MY BODY. THIS IS MY BLOOD".
In the shadows of the bleak Calvary hill,
After the pain and the bleeding and the dying;
Mary looked down at the broken frame across her legs
and said: "THIS IS MY BODY. THIS IS MY BLOOD".
Its just as well that she said it to Him then.
For now, dry old men,
In brocaded robes belying barrenness,
Ordain that she cannot say it to Him now.
JESUS, MARTHA AND MARY
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