Maria Gwyn McDowell

p “I can’t imagine women in the altar, as priests, deacons, alter servers….”  These are the words of a kind and thoughtful 91-year old man who has spent his whole life in the church, whose children pa href=http://deiprofundis.org/2008/nov/16/paucity-imagination target=_blankread more/a/p

div class=quote-msgdiv class=quote-authoremPresident-elect Barack Obama/em wrote:/divThis victory alone is not the change we seek; it is only the chance for us to make that change.br / br /...br / pa href=http://deiprofundis.org/2008/nov/05/change-we-seek target=_blankread more/a/p

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p May I apologize to you?  You don’t know who I am, and I barely know you.  I saw your grandmother take you to the front, offering your strong young arms in service.  I watched as the kind young te pa href=http://deiprofundis.org/2008/oct/08/i-am-so-sorry target=_blankread more/a/p

p This is, as the title indicates, a rant. A long rant. A peevish, ridiculous, adolescent rant. Having clarified the emotional maturity of what follows, let me begin. /p pa href=http://deiprofundis.org/2008/sep/30/perception-vs-reality-rant target=_blankread more/a/p

p a href=http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/author/wilcoxb/ title=Posts by W. Bradford WilcoxW. pa href=http://deiprofundis.org/2008/sep/27/talking-right-stumbling-left target=_blankread more/a/p

p span class=inline inline-lefta href=/image/dormition-theotokosimg src=http://deiprofundis.org/sites/deiprofundis.org/files/image/Dormition-NewSkete.blog-w250.jpg alt=Dormition of the Theotokos: from the Communities of New Skete title=Dormition of the Theotokos: from the Communities of New Skete class=image image-blog-w250 width=250 height=315 //aspan class=caption style=width: 248px;strongDormition of the Theotokos: /strongfrom the Communities of New Skete/span/span /p div class=image-clear/divpa href=http://deiprofundis.org/2008/aug/22/dancing-god target=_blankread more/a/p

pspan class=inline inline-lefta href=/image/sr-katrina-coffin-lidimg src=http://deiprofundis.org/sites/deiprofundis.org/files/image/sr_katrina_coffin.blog-w250.jpg alt=Sr. Katrina - Coffin Lid: Sr. Katrina#039;s coffin lid, with lilacs painted by Sr. Cecelia. title=Sr. Katrina - Coffin Lid: Sr. Katrina#039;s coffin lid, with lilacs painted by Sr. Cecelia. class=image image-blog-w250 width=250 height=339 //aspan class=caption style=width: 248px;strongSr. Katrina - Coffin Lid: /strongSr. Katrina's coffin lid, with lilacs painted by Sr. Cecelia./span/span /ppSr./p div class=image-clear/divpa href=http://deiprofundis.org/2008/aug/20/sr-katrina-memory-eternal target=_blankread more/a/p

pspan class=inline inline-lefta href=/image/transfigurationimg src=http://deiprofundis.org/sites/deiprofundis.org/files/image/Trans_Theophanes_1408.blog-w250.jpg alt=The Transfiguration: Theophanes the Greek, 1408 title=The Transfiguration: Theophanes the Greek, 1408 class=image image-blog-w250 width=250 height=344 //aspan class=caption style=width: 248px;strongThe Transfiguration: /strongTheophanes the Greek, 1408/span/span /ppRecently, I had the pleasure of spending the a href=http://orthodoxwiki.org//p div class=image-clear/div/a/ppa href=http://deiprofundis.org/2008/aug/19/transfiguration target=_blankread more/a/p