With this Motu Proprio Spiritus Domini, the pope officially allows women to be part of the acolyte and lector ministries.<\/p>\n
The \u201cacolyte\u201d is the altar servers\u2019 ministry, who helps the deacon and the priest at the altar. In extraordinary cases, they can distribute communion.<\/p>\n
The \u201clectorate\u201d is the ministry of one who reads the Scriptures in the liturgical assembly.<\/p>\n
The Vatican clarifies that it is not a step towards the priestly ordination of women, but a gesture to strengthen the role of the laity. In fact, with the publication of this change, Pope Francis recalls \u201cThe Church does not consider itself authorized to admit women to priestly ordination.\u201d<\/p>\n
POPE FRANCIS<\/strong> Paul VI began this process by specifying the liturgical functions that could be performed without being a priest.<\/p>\n Pope John Paul II said that both men and women could be lectors and altar servers. However, the Code of Canon Law states that \u201cmen\u201d may perform this service.<\/p>\n Pope Francis has substituted the word \u201cmen\u201d for \u201claity\u201d to clear up any doubt about his predecessors\u2019 intention.<\/p>\n He did something similar in 2016 when, through a decree, he clarified that the celebrant can also wash women\u2019s feet during the Holy Thursday ceremony.<\/p>\n Javier Romero<\/p>\n Translation: Christian Campos<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" January 11, 2021. The Vatican clarified that this is not another step towards the sacramental ordination of women, but rather the strengthening of the role of the laity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":15213,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/I-jrAjRo_-4","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bmotuproprioeng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bmotuproprioint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45758"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nJuly 28, 2013
\n\u201cAs far as the ordination of women, the Church has already spoken out, and the answer is no. John Paul II made the Church\u2019s stance definitive. The door is closed. But let me tell you something, Our Lady, was more important than the apostles, bishops, deacons, and priests. Women play a role that\u2019s more important than that of bishops or priests. How? This is what we have to explain better.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n