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Ministers of Christ: Recovering the Roles of Clergy and Laity in an Age of Confusion
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In this bold and powerful book, Dr. Peter Kwasniewski put forward an indisputable defense of the Church's historical teaching that liturgical services – including lecturers and altar servers – should be performed exclusively by men.
God created the two sexes for profound reasons, explains Dr. Kwasniewski, and we underestimate humans when we forget those reasons. He claimed that the interdependence of the two sexes strengthens male and female and that the complementary characteristics of masculinity and femininity are indispensable for human development. The clear distinction between the sexes has informed the Church's view of the roles of men and women in the liturgy for centuries, and is now under attack not only from outside the Catholic Church but also from within, threatening its own order and coherence. of civilization itself.
Dr. Kwasniewski methodically draws on Scripture, Church doctrines, and human nature to establish the right callings of the laity and clergy, as well as their various but essential modalities of liturgical participation. He explains the Old Testament history and New Testament foundations of the diaconate, subdiaconate, and minor orders, and he relates the male priesthood to Our Lord's Incarnation. He then exposes in amazing detail how these functions are intended to represent and exude the priesthood of Jesus Christ.
Finally, Dr. Kwasniewski outlines a way to a more healthy church life, one that substitutes the "heresy of action" with the primacy of prayer and the power of reflection. He contends that we should abandon the effort to "update" everything and return to the tranquil embrace of the Christian religion's intrinsic changelessness. Only then can we truly worship the unchanging God in His eternal reality, which is mirrored in Catholic tradition's liturgical rites and the stable forms of life they call forth and bless.
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