A question for all JWs, regarding women

by dgp 13 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

• 

  palmtree67

  I agree with the comment about "repressed anger".

  JW women find other ways to be in control.....

  They gossip about each other and about each others families and that affects who gets priveleges in the cong. Don't doubt that for a second!!

  For example, if an elder's wife tells him, "Sister So-and-So is having such and such issue with her husband.....or I heard THIS or THAT about So-And-So....." and he elders are considering that brother for an appointment.....

  Do you really think that elder isn't going to let the other elders know there is a "controversy" about that Brother??????

  I often used to think that SISTERS ran the congregation much more than brothers did.
• 

  White Dove

  Only the elderettes could wield such a sword as that. The rest of us peons were powerless.
• 

  its_me!

  I remember when I was younger, and just getting ready to get married, feeling that women really did get the short end of the stick. Then, after I got married, I realized it was much worse than I had first thought! I really hated it, and yes, I felt anger about it, and later, after going through a judicial committee, I felt absolute RAGE. I still feel angry, but a little better now that I don't feel a need to go back into that kind of life. But, I never felt that there was anything I could do to increase women's equality in the congregation. I felt completely helpless about the whole thing, that is until recently when I discovered that I could just GET OUT!!!!!! I hope that any woman that feels the same as I did will get out too!!
• 

  GLTirebiter

  Are women allowed by the Vatican to give the host at mass?

  Blondie,

  I haven't been able to find an authoritative article with all the details but I can explain the situation. In the RCC, it is preferred that the host and wine is distributed by ordained priests and deacons. But when there are not enough clergymen to handle the number of congregants, the diocese can appoint "extraordinary ministers of the eucharist" to assist with distributing communion. In most of the US, there is a shortage of priests so these "extraordinary" ministers are used every Sunday. The diocese (i.e. local Bishop) decides who is qualified; extraordinary ministers are not ordained and thus they can be women if the local diocese chooses to appoint them.

  So yes, women can sometimes distribute communion at a Catholic mass, but no, this does not mean the church is ordaining women.

  GLT