Sentences with phrase «considered for ordination»
The change, which opens up the possibility that people in same - sex relationships can be considered for ordination, is expected to take effect starting on July 10.
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Conservative MP Chris Davies welcomed the progress the Church had made increasing female clergy members, but added: «What steps are the Church taking to ensure the diversity of those being considered for ordination better reflects the country as a whole?»
Those who in conscience can not receive the sacramental ministry of women should not be excluded from being considered for ordination
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They are encouraging women to prepare for and seek ordination, and they are trying to be open to considering women as well as men for positions of lay leadership.
Rejecting the recommendation of a task - force study that such ordination be allowed, the assembly voted instead that only repentant homosexuals who choose celibacy or seek a reorientation of their sexual desires should be considered as qualified candidates for ministry.
We are all called to give generously: parents, in the efforts they put in for their children; young adults, in recognising that their bodies are «for the Lord» and should be considered as something holy; consecrated religious, in giving themselves in prayer out of a perfect love for God; and especially priests, who are told at their ordination that they must imitate what they celebrate at the altar.
The recommendation made by the United Church's Executive Council in 1973, if difficult to implement, is the appropriate stance: «It [the Executive Council] recommends to associations that in the instance of considering a stated homosexual's candidacy for ordination the issue should not be his / her homosexuality as such, but rather the candidate's total view of human sexuality and his / her understanding of the morality of its use.»
The Archdiocese of New York (where I consider it a privilege to be counted a member) has recently received some criticism for its low number of priestly ordinations this year.