Women are to take to pulpits in a German diocese, saying “it is not enough to give testimony only in the family or at work.”
– The time has come “to broaden the framework so that women, with their charisms, can be seen and heard more strongly in liturgy and preaching”
– Building on the success of May’s “Day of the Women Preachers”
Sermons are usually given by priests, but that’s about to change in the Diocese of Osnabrück, where for a week at least – from September 13 to 20 – women will proclaim and interpret the word of God in a series of special church services.
It all started with an invitation from the Office for Women’s Pastoral Care of the German Bishops’ Conference for Catholic women to celebrate the International Year of the Word of God by sharing their perspectives on the Bible in their respective communities and by sending in their sermons and catecheses, a selection of which will be published in a book.