{"id":20656,"date":"2013-02-10T07:05:54","date_gmt":"2013-02-10T12:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/?p=20656"},"modified":"2016-09-30T16:59:55","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T20:59:55","slug":"people-are-literally-fighting-over-who-gets-to-give-me-communion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/2013\/02\/people-are-literally-fighting-over-who-gets-to-give-me-communion\/","title":{"rendered":"“People are literally fighting over who gets to give me communion…”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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That\u2019s one of the more bizarre quotes by an excommunicated Ohio woman who yesterday attempted ordination as a Catholic priest.<\/p>\n

Get Religion<\/a><\/strong> notes that the Toledo Blade did a better-than-average job of covering the run-up to this event; the paper actually mentioned prominently that Beverly Bingle\u2019s ordination was not recognized by the Catholic Church, and took note of her excommunication.<\/p>\n

Terry Mattingly runs the full quote from Bingle:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe whole excommunication thing, I don\u2019t accept,\u201d she said. \u201cNeither do the members of the church. People are literally fighting over who gets to give me communion every day. It\u2019s beautiful. \u2026<\/p>\n

\u201cI go to Mass daily, or at least try to,\u201d she said. \u201cThat\u2019s my most important prayer, is the Mass, the assembly of the people of God acknowledging that they are the body of Christ, and that we are called to make a difference in the world. I go various places. I normally go to Corpus Christi [in Toledo]. I\u2019m still a member, and they can\u2019t take away my baptism. I just go and I sit there at Mass, and and I will receive communion. Somebody will break a host and give me one surreptitiously, or I\u2019ll receive it before or after. I drive a good distance sometimes to go to Mass where nobody knows me.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This morning, the Blade has a write-up about the ordination itself:\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Seventeen women from Roman Catholic Womenpriests, including ordained priests, deacons, and a bishop, as well as candidates and applicants for ordination, stood at the end of the service to show their numbers.\u00a0The Rev. Dagmar Celeste, former first lady of Ohio and the first American to be ordained by Roman Catholic Womenpriests, was among them.<\/p>\n

She said that acceptance by the Vatican will come.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a matter of time, but it\u2019s God\u2019s time,\u201d she said\u2026<\/p>\n

\u2026In her homily, Bishop Joan Houk of Roman Catholic Womenpriests spoke of the sacred call.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are all one in Christ,\u201d she said, \u201cand so when someone is called forth for the community, they can be priests and deacons.\u201d A member of the congregation responded, \u201cYup,\u201d and drew chuckles.<\/p>\n

But she also spoke of fear. \u201cThere is fear in our country, as you read in the news. There is fear in our church, as the leaders of our church are afraid of women serving. So it is our job, we are commissioned, we are blessed, all of us, through our baptism, as priests, prophets, and royalty, to go out and take the fear away. Bring God\u2019s love, bring God\u2019s caring, bring God\u2019s healing. Ann and Beverly are going to be leaders that you can call on.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fear was present in the sanctuary: there was an area where no photos were allowed. Sitting there were a professor from a Roman Catholic college, a nun, and others. But in announcing the area, the Rev. Mary Ellen Robertson, a Roman Catholic Womenpriests member from Deltona, Fla., and Muskegon, Mich., said, \u201cnot many back there, I notice.\u201d<\/p>\n

Once the ordination rites were finished, Bishop Houk announced: \u201cIt is with great joy that I present to you our new priest, Beverly Bingle.\u201d<\/p>\n

More than 30 seconds of applause followed.<\/p>\n

Before the service, the Reverend Bingle had said, \u201cI believe that sacraments are celebrations of something that already happened. You don\u2019t get married and then fall in love. You don\u2019t get ordained and then become a priest. So it\u2019s a process, and this is community recognition of what I\u2019ve been going through. It\u2019s pretty wonderful.\u201d<\/p>\n

After the Reverend Bingle was ordained a deacon Sept. 13, the Catholic Diocese of Toledo stated her participation \u201cin an invalid and illicit attempted ordination\u201d meant she was automatically excommunicated from the Catholic Church.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You can watch video of the event at the link.\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Photo: Jetta Frazere\/Toledo Blade<\/em><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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