Is the Revd. Alison Heal the first woman to be ordained in Luxembourg?
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I met a woman priest from the New Apostolic Church this week - she was ordained in Luxembourg on 12th June! So in fact there has been another woman ordained priest, but in a very different context. I found this article about her ordination here: https://www.nak.lu/db/8134040/Neuigkeiten/Bezirksapostel-Poeschel-besuchte-Luxemburg
ReplyDeleteHow wonderful! Lovely news 🙌❤️
DeleteAlison's ordination was a lovely ceremony, the experience of which is one I will treasure. However, being a novice at such events, (it was the first ever ordination ceremony I've ever attended), I naïvely thought, at the beginning of the service, that someone had placed a present they were going to give to the ordinand on the altar.
ReplyDeleteThe present was a beautiful, flame-shaped white object with a blue cross on it, some people may realise where I am going with this. It was to my utter surprise that just before the ordination part of the ceremony the bishop picked up, what I thought was a thoughtfully wrapped gift, and placed it squarely on his head! I wouldn't have been surprised if the Monty Python crew had turned up and performed the dead parrot sketch. What proceeded instead was the ordination and the laying on of hands by a team of clergy when the life-giving gift of the Holy Spirit was given to Alison to equip her for her high calling and ministry.
For me, it was an experience of God's life giving presence, and nothing to do with dead parrots or presents, other than the gift of the Holy Spirit.
It would have been a very pretty present, but I don't think I'm ready for it, yet! :)
DeleteI don't know... give it a bit of time :)
DeleteAlison's ordination was second time my path in life has crossed with that of a bishop. The first being when Revd. Lyon brought a bishop (not sure which one) to my lesson when I was teaching religion at Lux 1 Secondary School.
ReplyDeleteThe students knew that Chris was bringing the bishop to our lesson and knew that I was nervous. They were helpfully knocking under the desks every now and then, pretending to be the bishop knocking on the classroom door.
Eventually the bishop arrived, with Chris, and all was well. He turned out to be really lovely, and instead of assessing the quality of my lesson he took over, and asked the students some interesting questions. He complimented me on my (very wobbly but authentically flame-like) drawing of his hat on the board that I think I'd managed to label 'flame', and was visibly delighted with this. He rolled with this crumb of information I'd managed to impart and talked about the Holy Spirit.
All in all, it was a good experience for teacher, priest and students alike, rather like Alison's ordination. A spiritually seismic event of magnitudes far greater than my little lesson, many years ago now. However, the ordination is a cause for great celebration here in Luxembourg. Tiptop!
We have had more information come in about the bishop's visit to Luxembourg many years ago.
ReplyDeleteIt was Bishop Geoffrey Rowell who was with us for a long weekend when we celebrated the 50th anniversary of the first Anglican service in Luxembourg. It was some time in 2011 or 2012. Archbishop Franck was still in office. (Archbishop Hollerich arrived in 2012).
The all-seasons altar frontal was dedicated at this service (the collage of different pieces of cloth on which everyone at the service wrote their signature - it has the date on it somewhere apparently).
Does anyone remember the year?