Get this...

[NYCCatholic]

Okay, another question for my awesome freepers...

Get this...a friend of mine recently attended a week-long silent retreat given by a congregation of nuns in the Northeast. I won't name the order. During daily Mass, the Priest allowed one of the nuns to proclaim the Gospel and give a homily.

Is this allowed? I was under the impression that only a Priest or Deacon can read the Gospel and give a homily.

[Hoodat]

Priscilla and Aquila founded the church at Ephesus.

Romans 16:3-5

[FourtySeven]

I don’t doubt they did, and it’s clearly (started) in their house. However the passage in Romans nor in Acts indicate with any clarity that Priscilla gave sermons, when people met there for the purpose of celebrating Mass.

Again, the passage in Acts merely indicates three people met at their house for the purpose of helping Apollos perfect his faith. This is not Mass in the strict sense, which is why any teaching Priscilla engaged in is perfectly understood to be not only acceptable but required of anyone of faith, no matter the gender.

IOW, I imagine (and this is probably Church teaching too) that Priscilla and Aquila probably had friends over for dinner to share the faith, to fellowship, etc. but such instances, as described in Acts for example, we’re not church “services” (if you call it that) or “Mass” (as we Catholics say).

That is, the instance in Acts was not for the purpose of worshipping God. It was to instruct a fellow Christian in the matters of Faith, which Carholic women are not only “free” to do but encouraged to do.