28. Responses to Criticisms of Fr. Hauke's Work

An Argument Against Priestesses

Good gracious, I have now reached the final page of Fr. Hauke's quotations-- please read his book. You have made clear to me that you think the ministries of acolyte and reader were excluded to men only because of sexism. No, it only points to an important difference. The theology behind male servers was simple, as an extension of the priests hands, assisting him in the liturgy, should he not also be male? Many of us would say yes, but it is a discipline that has been abrogated. What it will do in terms of future vocations, I shudder to think.

As for a devotion to Christ's maleness, sorry it has already happened. In every masculine pronoun the mystery of the incarnation of Christ as a male human being is reiterated: "I give myself and consecrate to the Sacred Heart of our Lord Jesus Christ, my person and my life, my actions, pains and sufferings, so that I may be unwilling to make use of any part of my being other than to honor, love and glorify the Sacred Heart. This is my unchanging purpose, namely, to be all HIS, and to do all things for the love of HIM, at the same time renouncing with all my heart whatever is displeasing to HIM. I therefore take you, O Sacred Heart, to be the only object of my love, the guardian of my life, my assurance of salvation, the remedy of my weakness and inconstancy, the atonement for all the faults of my life and my sure refuge at the hour of death. / Be then, O Heart of goodness, my justification before God the FATHER, and turn away from me the strokes of HIS righteous anger. O Heart of love, I put all my confidence in you, for I fear everything from my own wickedness and frailty, but I hope for all things from your goodness and bounty. / Remove from me all that can displease you or resist your holy will; let your pure love imprint your image so deeply upon my heart, that I shall never be able to forget you or to be separated from you. / May I obtain from all your loving kindness the grace of having my name written in your heart, for in you I desire to place all my happiness and glory, living and dying in bondage to you" (Act of Consecration to the Sacred Heart by St. Margaret Mary Alacoque). I bet you there are very few feminists and dissenters who offer this prayer and those who try probably alter its wording.

The Sacred Heart of Jesus is a male heart that beats in the chest of the God-Man. His is the heart that brings him to the cross out of love for sinful humanity.

Regarding Mary, your changes to the points from Fr. Hauke again show your disregard for the poignant beauty and truth of the marriage analogy. Can you really be Christian and disregard it? The Son of God aside, the greatest human being to ever walk the earth is a female, the Virgin Mary. Precisely as female and mother she has an abiding role to play in the redemptive process. Your assertion that this is "not because she is a woman" makes no sense in this context whatsoever. Because it smacks of the most disagreeable error, I will continue to pray for you as requested.

Your final addendum is false. You write, "I dissent only with CCC 1577." Your ideas threaten orthodox Christology (who is Jesus?), Ecclesiology (the nature of the Church), Sacramentology (regarding marriage), Liturgiology (the priest as a true icon of Christ), the theology of the transmission of dogma and doctrine, the relationship between Scripture and Tradition, the teaching about Authority and the Magisterium, etc. I am sure, if properly explored, you would find that your "small" dissent is a reflection of a whole host of heresies.