PCS Forum: PCS Forum on April 30, 2024: Women Called to Catholic Priesthood for Session 4: Priestly Leadership in a Companionship of Equals

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Next Sessions: Tuesday, 1:00PM EDT

April 30 -Session 4: Priestly Leadership

Please share how your experience reflects the following characteristics of priestly leadership?

Roman Catholic Women Priests are a "prophetic challenge to transform hierarchical and sexist structures that claim that males only can be ordained for priestly service to God and the community."

How do women priests reflect the following leadership ministries?

1 Kerygma- Proclaiming the word of the gospel and invite community to shared homilies

Synod Synthesis report:

-“We are encouraged by many small communities in the emerging Church, who live the closeness of the day-to-day around the Word of God and the Eucharist.”

2 Koinonia: All are welcome in caring communities-to celebrate and receive Eucharist and -upbuilding of community of excluded /dispossessed on journey of faith

From Synod Synthesis Report:

“All the baptized should be involved in processes and decision-making in the Church. “

3.Diakonia: The Basin and the Towel: diaconal ministries core to priesthood, includes, visiting the sick, feeding hungry, demonstrations for justice, championing human rights

4. Leiturgia: Come and rejoice in community gatherings to celebrate sacraments.

5. Form and Sustain Ecclesial Communities:

RCWP Movement expanding the conversation initiated by Pope Francis's synodal process by mission to enlare the space of the tent.

-in inclusive communities and ministries

-collaborative leadership with all the baptized

-ecumenical communion with different faith traditions

-practices reflect Jesus's invitation to eat with tax collectors, sinners and women, embrace a Eucharistic theology that invites all the baptized to the table.

6. Embody Communion:

-Diverse theologies and spiritualities reflected in rituals in RCWP movement.

- We celebrate Eucharist and consecrate together at Zoom liturgies and in person.

- Multiple ways Christ is present to the community and to the cosmos e and eat."

- "Gather, remember, share bread and wine."

-"We are also Eucharist. We become what we eat."

-"Transubstantiation is a Greek concept that goes with Greek philosophy. I don't think Greek philosophy fits life in the modern world."

"We take the power within ourselves as baptized people... and we are becoming it, we transform it into the living body of Jesus into who we are becoming and evolving.

Authors comment:

"Their emphasis on inclusion and widening the tent combined with their almost universal focus on feeding and becoming food for the world provided a theological reflection on becoming a living communion."

Summary:

"What they now offer is a type of leadership that rejects hierarchical , patriarchal obedience. Rather they see themselves as facilitators, educators, and convenors; they accompany the people of God on their journey of faith. These shifts demonstrate different styles of leadership and accountability. "

Time for all sessions: 1:00pm EDT

Authors of recently published book: Women Called to Catholic Priesthood- From Ecclesial Challenge to Spiritual Renewal ,Sharon Henderson Callahan and Jeanette Rodriguez, will join our PCS Forum and provide an overview of each topic from their book. Then, participants will be invited to share their call and lived experiences of embodying a new form of priestly ministry in inclusive ecclesial communities of equals that are widening the church’s tent. These sessions will be recorded and available on YouTube for the public. Translation services in Spanish will be provided. All are welcome!

April 9 - Session 1: Stories of Call

April 16 - Session 2: Sharing Ministries

April 23 - Session 3: Spiritual Practices to Nurture the Journey

April 30 -Session 4: Priestly Leadership

Sharon Henderson Callahan, EdD, is professor emerita and past academic dean of the School of Theology and Ministry at Seattle University. A scholar of ministry and leadership , Callahan has focused her research on both Roman Catholic and mainline Protestant ecclesial formation.

Jeanette Rodriguez, PhD, is a professor of theology and religious studies at Seattle University. Currently she also serves as Executive Director of the Institute for Catholic Thought and Culture at the university. She is a 'border theologian" studying Christian faith experience among different cultural groups; her books include studies of Haudenosaunee and Mexican American cultural identity.

Videos for Public Sharing are on youtube.

See links below:

People sometimes ask us: How do you know if you are called to Catholic Priesthood? What do you do? How do you minister in a Church that does not officially recognize women priests? How do you deal with excommunication?

Listen to the following stories in which women priests share their stories of Call and Ministry.

Video Recordings of PCS Forum on our ministries and our call.

Session 4: Priestly Leadership

https://youtu.be/_h_ycL341ow