C. S. Lewis - Priestesses in the Church?

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[starrjohnson]

This post, seeing the state we are in currently, is breathtakingly clear and prophetic.

[nonosays]

Hearing this again in 2023 as the Anglican Church finally breaks with the C of E is almost unbelievable.
And truly painful.

[resurrectingman]

If only he could see what has become of the Anglican church...

[johnmcclain]

I have been about this business since my return from Beirut, in 83, as a Marine, and finding it necessary to adjust my beliefs to encompass a personal God and Savior, having run away from faith in belief, most of my life. I am amazed at what I've found with Lewis, having read him to our children, thirty five years, as the Narnia tales, and never realizing he was far beyond. My Christian life has been greatly expanded, enhanced, and indeed, "Blessed" in the last year I've found the incredible reason "Clive", has brought to my personal understanding and my faith, I am awed by God's felicity.

[robertjohn]

He wouldn’t be an Anglican these days.

[allanlindsay]

I made mention of Walter Hooper's observation that he believed CS Lewis would eventually have become a Catholic as he, Hooper, did. Of course mention of the Catholic Church brought forth some vigorous responses, there are 30 comments on here currently and over half of them concern that one comment. This ability that the mentioning of the Catholic Church always engenders, has, I must admit helped confirm me in my faith. So here is a comment from Lewis himself which is both prophetic and indicative, " . . . missionary to the priests of one's own church is an embarrassing role though I have a horrid feeling that if such mission work is not undertaken the future history of the Church Of England is likely to be short . . ."

[allanlindsay]

Thank you for this wonderful presentation. I'm au fait with this essay of Lewis and it is good to revisit it, as time moves on Lewis seems to be of similar stock to the prophets. Walter Hooper, who converted to Catholicism said he had no doubt that if Lewis were alive he would have become Catholic.

[johnnotrealname]

This one essay disproves anglicanism. C.S.Lewis was very prescient.

[allanlindsay]

The other aspect worth noting in this "problem" which is worthy of consideration is pregnancy . . . . . until recent times anything up to and often over twenty confinements during a woman's life was not that unusual, let's say then some 180 months the equivalent to some fifteen years, then there is all that is entailed in relation to post natal health, apparently so some medical experts have claimed few if any women recover their health 100% then there is the feeding of the children and all else. How could a woman truly serve God and humankind in terms of the Church and the faithful? Of course just as Lewis reached the shores of Heaven in came ubiquitous contraception and all the propaganda ensuring its take-up . . . . and then came the Priestesses. How many priestesses Anglican or otherwise could hold down the role without contraception, while providing a true and dedicated ministry? (Is contraception against the law of God? )

[AndyYoung]

Lewis is his usual brilliant self, but there is a simpler reason why women can't be priests - though the devil is hard at work convincing us that they can. Christ had a 3-fold identity, as priest, prophet and king. Officially, a priest, when saying mass, is an "in persona Christi." That is someone "acting in the person of Christ" to bring the sacrifice on Cavalry to here and now via the Eucharist. Of course, priests do this in the other sacraments too. The point is that in the Old Covenant/Testament, and now in the New Covenant/Testament, from the righteous Abel to Melchizedek to Christ to today, rabbis and priests have always been men because the 2nd person of the Blessed Trinity is a MAN in heaven - and will be for all eternity!!! No matter what the Satanically inspired homosexual/lesbian lobby claim.

[jhoughjr]

wow church being a ball. kinda mind blowing. But I am a bit medicated as well. always made me contemplate god more.

[michelesweet]

An error found: Acts 1:14 states along with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers were in the upper room where all were filled with the Holy Spirit.
He denies this Reality.
I can't help but wonder whether this essay represents his merely human intellect/ wisdom, earthly, before he married, during or after his wife died. Good read
Titled, A Severe Mercy, a compilation of letters between Lewis and the author, Sheldon Vanauken, whose wife also died of cancer.

[uiPublic]

Agiven Holy Catholic Israel's church led by Aaron & Miriam wanted keep Brother Moses as Visiting Professor but for God's timely intervention and another Marium the most beloved of Gospelors yet derided by Monkery's then on defined Medieval darkness until liberated by Martin Luther duo the Hope for Redemption depends upon Faith's & Love of Holy Bride?!
For God's own identity hitherto till Christ's had been a fierce Motherly Hen to her Chics fold to grow up...

[allenbird]

My perfectly reasonable comment here seems to have been deleted. May the Christian God dispatch the wicked souls of those responsible back to the Hell that spawned them.