Läs vad som menas med vigning och hur kvinnor exkluderades
Forts på National Catholic Reporters berättelse om den historiska utvecklingen som ledde till hur kvinnor exkluderades från kyrkliga vigningar
”Two points are important to make about the development of leadership roles in the church in the period from the fifth to the 13th centuries. First, the definition of ordination changed radically during the 12th century. Second, women were considered capable of ordination up until the 13th century. This having been said, it is important to understand what ordination meant from the fifth to the 13th centuries. Only then can we understand what it meant to ordain women during that period.”
”During the first millennium of Christianity, ordination meant election by and installation of a person to perform a particular function in a Christian community. Not only bishops, priests, deacons and subdeacons but also of porters, lectors, exorcists, acolytes, canons, abbots, abbesses, kings, queens and empresses were all considered equally ordained. This makes perfect sense. An ordo (order) was a group in the church (or society) that had a particular job or vocation. In fact, any job or vocation was called an ”order,” and the process by which one was chosen and designated for that vocation was an ”ordination.”
http://ncronline.org//news/women-religious/meaning-ordination-and-how-women-were-gradually-excluded
// Irène
