In the last issue, I dealt with Frank Schaeffer’s assertion:

[b]y ordaining women, “liberal” Protestants are in effect saying, “Christ did not come in the flesh, his maleness does not matter, he is a mere symbol of something larger.”

St. Gregory the Theologian says that as Christians we undergo three births. The first is our physical birth from our mother, when we are born into the life of this world. The second is our baptism, when we are reborn through water and the Holy Spirit as members of the body of Christ. The third birth is the resurrection, when all of us hope to be born anew into the Kingdom of Heaven.¹ At this glorious feast we honor the most holy Mother of God and celebrate her new birth into the resurrection. We pray that by our Lord’s grace, and through her prayers, we may one day be with her where she has gone before us.