The Society of St Agnes - Women In Ministry
St Agnes is a support network provided by the Ecumencial Community Church+Catholic
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The warmest of welcomes from all of us at St Agnes.
   
 What we are:
 
*A network support resource for men and women (provided by the ECC+C) who endorse the ordination of all women.
 
*An advocate for our friends within Roman Catholic Womenpriests. 
 
*Prayerful supporters of reform and change in Roman Canon Law.
 
What we are not:
 
* The Roman Catholic Church, nor are we a part of it.
 
*Anti-men or anti-Roman Catholic.
 
 
We are a Christ-centered community of women and men who have come together to demonstrate our faith through our actions. Our choice of Agnes to head our support network is down to her brave stance against the men of the Roman Church and their overt disrespect for her womanhood - which cost her young life.
 
We provide a platform for women of all ages to discover and experience in a deeper sense, the heart and mind of Jesus Christ through revealing the Word of God. We strive to transfer this into the relevance of faithful discipleship in today's changing and rather complicated world. So many women have a burning heart to reach out and express gospel concern - but feel they are thwarted by the patriarchial dominance of the Church. Please don't mistake us for a radical anti-male group, we do not exclude the men in our lives and never will.
 
In this day and age women can explore priesthood. The aim of St Agnes is to support women who feel called to Holy Orders with the aim of pursuing active and pastoral ministries within their communities. To work hard but pray harder and to find the courage through their strength of faith to take their place in the vineyard and at the altar - because your calling, your courage and your faith; is all you need.
 
We support through friendship and prayer, the tireless efforts of organisations like Roman Catholic Womenpriests (RCWP) and our ethos, although different, still enhances protest for reform. 
 
Here is a wonderfully insightful comment from one of the Ordained Roman Catholic Womenpriests (RCWP) we have friendship and respect with and for:
 
"I believe it is very important that we are both here together in our different situations with our different viewpoints.  This could be helpful to both of us.  I have a theory that the campaign for the ordination of women to the (Roman) Catholic priesthood needs women with as wide a variety of talents and knowledge as possible, because the Vatican opposes us in so many different ways! That we are doing different types of ministry, at least at present, does not matter, for that could change in time anyway."
    
 
"Do not be comformed to this world, but be transformed, by the renewing of your minds..."
Romans 12
 

 
 
 

 

 

 Prayer For St Agnes. 


   Almighty and everlasting God, who chooses those whom the world deems powerless, to put the powerful to shame: Grant us so to cherish the memory of the youthful martyr Agnes, that we may share her pure and steadfast faith in you; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.