Mother Pelican
Meditations on Man and Woman, Humanity and Nature

Luis T. Gutiérrez

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Meditation Seeking Understanding ~ Liturgy These pages are meditations on the mysteries of the creation, the incarnation, and the redemption. They explore the Christian understanding that all men and women are consubstantial in one and the same human nature, and are consubstantial with Jesus Christ as to his humanity. The meditations are based on a layman's reading of the Sacred Bible, the Catechism of the Catholic Church, and the Theology of the Body as they pertain to the egalitarian complementarity of man and woman, which transcends the patriarchal binary of mutually exclusive male-female opposites. This understanding of the complementary equality of man and woman applies to all the sacraments, sheds light on the great nuptial mystery of Christ and the Church, and would seem to support the ordination of women to the ministerial priesthood and the episcopate. Liturgical Body Language The Anointing at Bethany Working Draft - 12 June 2016 PRAELUDIUM 1 - Natural Unity & Complementarity Human love in the divine plan: Natural Unity of Man and Woman Natural Complementarity of Man and Woman Natural Consubstantiality of Man and Woman PRAELUDIUM 2 - The Redemption of the Body Redemption of human love after original sin: Patriarchal Disunity of Man and Woman From the Creation to the Ascension ~ Male and Female From the Creation to Pentecost ~ Masculinity and Feminity PRAELUDIUM 3 - Nuptial Meaning of the Body Divinization of human love in the sacramental economy: Sacramental Complementarity of Man and Woman Sacramental Homogeneity of Man and Woman Sacramental Consubstantiality of Man and Woman Sacramental Unity of Man and Woman ORIGINAL BODY LANGUAGE From the beginning, the NUPTIAL MEANING of the body is sex/gender inclusive, male and female... Bearing fruit and multiplying... filling the earth... taking care of nature... Sense of solitude... deep sleep... finding each other as "flesh of my flesh"... Leaving father and mother... seeking nuptial unity... becoming one flesh... BIBLICAL COMPLEMENTARITY is about the natural, mutually inclusive communion of man and woman as personal subjects. PATRIARCHAL BODY LANGUAGE After original sin, the original NUPTIAL MEANING of the body is often obscured and oversexualized but remains sex/gender inclusive, male and female... Mimetic desire... male domination... female subordination... Sexual violence... other forms of violence... brother against brother... Patriarchal families... poligamy, slavery, hoarding... idolatry... PATRIARCHAL "COMPLEMENTARITY" is an artificial, mutually exclusive dichotomy of man and woman viewed as sexual objects rather than personal subjects. REDEEMED BODY LANGUAGE After the redemption, the NUPTIAL MEANING of the body is sex/gender inclusive, male and female... and becomes LITURGICAL, EUCHARISTIC, sacrificial love begetting new life... The human body makes visible what is invisible, i.e., the spiritual and the divine Ecclesial communities make visible what is invisible, e.g., trinitarian unity in diversity Interpersonal body language makes visible what is invisible, e.g., love begetting life REDEEMED COMPLEMENTARITY fully restores and sacramentalizes the original, natural, mutual inclusiveness of man and woman as personal subjects. Eucharistic Body Language ~ Corpus Christi COLLOQUIUM 1 - Restoration of Natural Body Language The "already/not yet" of divinized human love: Reconstructing the Original Unity of Man and Woman Reconstructing the Original Harmony of Humanity and Nature Here and Now: Laudato Si' and the Year of Mercy Here and Now: Integral Humanism and Evangelization COLLOQUIUM 2 - Apostolic Body Language The "already/not yet" of apostolic body language: Apostolic Complementarity of Man and Woman Apostolic Consubstantiality of Man and Woman Apostolic Consubstantiality of Man and Woman ~ Mary COLLOQUIUM 3 - Body Language for the New Evangelization The "already/not yet" of the missionary Church: Here and Now: Liturgical Body Language Body Language in the Church Family Eucharistic Body Language, Male and Female Apostolic Body Language, Masculine and Feminine One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic ~ Male and Female SUMMARY - Liturgical Body Language in Heaven and Earth God is LOVE, 1 in 3 Personal Subjects, not 3 sex objects Jesus Christ is an embodied Personal Subject, not just a sex object All men and women are embodied personal subjects, not just sex objects The patriarchal priesthood reduces all men and women to be sex objects Trinitarian body language is not PATRIARCHAL Trinitarian body language is EUCHARISTIC, masculine and feminine Trinitarian body language is LITURGICAL, masculine and feminine It is time to ordain some women as DEACONS, PRIESTS, and BISHOPS TRANSUBSTANTIATION happens when the priest consecrates the bread and wine acting in persona Christi, i.e., in the person of Christ as a divine personal subject, not just a human being with a male body. Transubstantiation also happens when baptized persons, of any sex/gender, let themselves be BROKEN for others. [APPENDIX] ADDENDUM Mary of Bethany's Liturgical Body Language Only a baptized male is "proper matter" for the order of priesthood? Mt 26:6-13; Mk 14:3-9; Lk 7:36-50; Jn 12:1-7, 13:1-17 Question: Now that we are in the sacramental economy of the Church, after the redemption of the body and being of the same flesh, why not ordain some women to serve as DEACONS, PRIESTS, and BISHOPS? THE PATRIARCHAL ERA IS PASSING AWAY. WE ARE A NEW CREATION! APPENDIX: THEOLOGY OF THE BODY The body is a sacrament of the entire person but is not the entire personal subject. When a priest consecrates the bread and wine, he or she is acting in the person of Christ as a divine personal subject, not just as a human being with a male body. El cuerpo es un sacramento de toda la persona, pero no es la totalidad del sujeto personal. Cuando un sacerdote consagra el pan y el vino, él o ella está actuando en la persona de Cristo como un sujeto personal divino, no sólo como un ser humano con un cuerpo masculino. Il corpo è un sacramento di tutta la persona, ma non è l'intero soggetto personale. Quando un sacerdote consacra il pane e il vino, lui o lei agisce in persona di Cristo come un soggetto personale divino, non solo come un essere umano con un corpo maschile. Le corps est un sacrement de la personne entière mais pas la totalité du sujet personnel. Quand un prêtre consacre le pain et le vin, il ou elle agit dans la personne du Christ en tant que sujet personnel divine, non pas seulement comme un être humain avec un corps masculin. O corpo é um sacramento de toda a pessoa, mas não é a totalidade do sujeito pessoal. Quando um sacerdote consagra o pão eo vinho, ele ou ela está agindo na pessoa de Cristo como um sujeito pessoal divino, não apenas como um ser humano com um corpo masculino. Der Körper ist ein Sakrament der gesamten Person ist aber nicht das gesamte persönliche Thema. Wenn ein Priester das Brot und Wein konsekriert, er oder sie wird als göttliche persönlichen Gegenstand in der Person Christi handeln, nicht nur als Mensch mit einem männlichen Körper. Cialo jest sakramentem calej osoby, ale nie jest to cala osobistym przedmiotem. Gdy kaplan konsekruje chleb i wino, on lub ona dziala w osobie Chrystusa jako Boskiego osobowego podmiotu, a nie tylko jako czlowieka z meskiego ciala. [SUMMARY] BY REINFORCING THE MINDSET OF MALE HEGEMONY, THE PATRIARCHAL PRIESTHOOD IS AN OBSTACLE TO GRACE AND THE ADVENT OF AN INTEGRAL ECOLOGY |Back to Title| PelicanWeb Home Page      Index of Meditations

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