WomenEucharist
By Sheila Durkin Dierks
What in the name of God
are thousands of Catholic women doing?
Nationwide, they're gathering
in hundreds of small groups
with bread and wine
and celebrating Eucharist without a priest.
This is a unique collection of interviews
with Catholic women who decided
to wait no longer for patriarchal
permission.
They meet in each others' homes to bless and break bread
and they find Jesus present.
This book answers the questions:
What do women do who love
the church, but hate the injustice?
Where do women go to celebrate
joyfully with inclusive language
and "equal access" to God?
How do women pray together
to heal their relationships with a God
who had only been known as Father?
What do women experience when
they begin to celebrate Eucharist
without a male mediator?
How can you do the same?
Here's what you'll be finding:
"You have only to go into most parish churches during liturgy to know that something is dreadfully wrong. . . Look at the faces of the people past the first ten rows. Bored, don't sing, they're reading the bulletin and waiting for the hour to pass so they can get on with their 'real' lives."
"I have been horrified when Mass was used to separate and divide people. . . it is within the church itself that women learn every Sunday, year after year, that they are somehow inferior."
"I came to WomenEucharist because of boring Masses, uninvolved crowds fulfilling an obligation, not being fed spiritually."
Does this sound like what you experience?
"I was fortunate enough to have a friend who was starting a group and invited me to participate. This became a turning point in my life."
"I started in the group and stayed in the group because of my friends. They have showed me the face of God in ways I never knew or expected."
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WOMEN EUCHARIST - What in the name of God are
thousands of Catholic women doing?
Sheila Durkin Dierks
317 pgs. $16.95 paperback ISBN: 0965813797