In this age of cosmetic feminism, women are allowed to be the ambassadors of God in certain churches in celebrating the Holy Communion, where as in few other churches women are permitted to participate in everything except celebrating the Holy Mass. Neither the celebration of the Holy Eucharist nor getting involved in committee and parish meetings are allowed in some minority churches. Why the issue of allowing women in participating all the theatres of parish life is a thorn in the flesh of various churches? Man was so far assigned to be the protagonist of the altar. Despite the secular arena is challenged and threatened by the rule of the equal opportunity dogma, certain churches are still trying to cling on to the harness set by the male chauvinists of the bygone era. Let us examine whether there are facts and fantasies in such a hypothesis, theological as well as pragmatic.

THEOLOGICAL EXEGESIS SEX IMMUNITY:
Human beings are equal, but individuals are not. Everybody is equal in the biological concept, but differ inherently in the immeasurable inner potentialities. One realm is constrained by physical senses, whereas the other one is governed by invincible spiritual laws. Certain guidelines were imbedded in our system while the Creator moulded our prototype in the beginning; this is still being continued with tiny, timely adjustments. This transitory life is only an unaccountable fragment of time in timelessness. The inscribed battle between good and evil in our system is a preparatory struggle for grabbing our eternal places. There are great and small in Heaven, the Abode of the Holy Trinity (Lk. 7:28); yet he who is least in the Kingdom of God is the greatest here. Grumbling and grudges are no mere solutions.

There are no sexual propensities in the Infinity, hence no room for conjugal pleasure or marriage in Heaven ( Mt 19). As soon as the forbidden fruit was tested, the dormant sexuality was aroused in the first parents ( Gen 3:7). The lust of sex impulse is the gateway for all other lusts. As Paradise was not meant for sexual acrobatisms, Adam and Eve were spontaneously thrown out of the garden of Eden. The church is the second heaven (Heb 8:5), consequently, the House of the Lord cannot be desecrated by the intermingling of both sexes, the presence of iron filings with the magnet, other than at the time of worship in segregate pews or in two separate rows. Even though the sanctity of the worship was apparently guarded till now, the dawn of the same-sex (homosexual) relationships and the child paedophile touching the altar is to be proved as a sign of the eventual demise of the church and the imminent descent of the Lord soon after (Mt 24:15). A woman is also not to be enticed to the altar owing to the cycle of biological clocks and the attraction of sensual attention. The hand that plucked the forbidden fruit cannot touch the Body of Christ.

BIBLICAL EVIDENCE:
This topic is a vast area; those who thirst for more facts and figures read my thirteen-volume book "The Abomination of Desolation"( One volume in English and the rest in Malayalam). Even though St Paul, the saintly stalwart and proponent of the chaste faith, is caricatured as a male chauvinist by the feminists, he argues vehemently and pleads that "a soft vessel' (1.Pet.3.7) is not even allowed to ask questions in the church as she has to obey and respect her husband(1Cor 14: 34-38; Eph 5:32). Adam was wooed (woo+ man == woman) to his perdition by the sensual eve as she became the first prey of Satan ( 1 Tim 2:8-15). He also delves deep into the subject, so as to make us believe that Eve was created for Adam, and not vice versa. As Christ is the head of the church, so also man is the head and she, the body ( Eph 5:22-32). We read this text for every sacrament of Matrimony. He may be dubbed as a product of Jewish traditions, forgetting that the Jewish traditions are the bi- products of the transmitted words of God spoken through his prophets and sages.

WOMEN'S ROLE
"I will greatly multiply your pain in child bearing; in pain you shall bring fourth children, yet your desire for your husband, and he shall rule over you"(Gen 3:16). Taking birth in St Mary, the Son of Man cleansed the sins of Adam and the human race, yet one's own guilt of sins remains until it is washed away by ones repentance and contrition of heart. The sacrifice of the Lamb didn't alter the biological nature and functions of man and woman. The pain of child birth and the care of young ones ( suckling, nursing, and the like) cannot be transferred to man since only her body and passions are embedded with the unique ingredients for nursing her babies and husband. Her duties once were fettered by home care and domestic liabilities of natural set up. It has been proved beyond doubt after about thirty years of experiments in domestic, personal and social theatres, that feminism is only a utopian concept which never can befit the society, but an integral recipe for the disintegration of mankind. The age of feminism is dead, yet the etheric radiant of its corpse is luminous everywhere. An ideal Christian life for an unmarried person is possible only in exceptional circumstances; man always craves to hide his face with a complementary partner, and vice versa. The same- sex relationship thrives only when a person is deprived of the solace of confining and confiding with a complementary partner.

The vexation of the spirit of the present generation is that the woman is liberated from the clutches of man and her home duties. Children as a result, go astray in all directions ( 2 Tim 3:1-7). When the heart woman is transformed as a brain woman, the earth feels its wound and draws closer to the consummation of the time. The woman is the heart and man, the brain of humanity. Their complementary functions give balance and equilibrium to mankind " Two swords cannot be put into the same sheath."The tentacles of pseudo democracy have interchanged and exchanged the essence and functions of man and woman. A brain woman cannot excel a heart woman. It doesn't mean that intelligence and academic qualifications are a disqualification for a mother; it only drives home an idea that nobody can serve two masters at the same time faithfully, effectively, and efficaciously. A career woman has so many hurdles in effectively dedicating as a carrier woman. A career woman is torn between home and workplace, hence forcing millions and millions from true wedlock, and aligning themselves with the defacto cohabitation relationship, which accelerates to thrive the sex industries in a luxuriant magnitude, thereby jumping from the frying pan into the fire ( society) by the disintegration of the web of sacrosanct family life. The original authority given to man to rule over woman is still valid now(Gen.3.16) as the motherhood is not yet transferred to man.

Mother Teresa's beatification is officially scheduled Oct 19, 2003. Mother Teresa (1910-1997) was a worldwide emblem of Christian charity. Born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, in Macedonia, Teresa discovered the face of the suffering Christ in Calcutta among the poorest of the poor. The founder of the Missionaries of Charity will be beatified next year. Daughter of a grocer, she became a nun and went to India as a young woman. After studying nursing, she moved to the slums.

Mother Theresa's secret was that She was a woman totally in personal love with Jesus. Mother Teresa by her dedication to the poorest of the poor impressed the whole world irrespective of caste creed or religion. It is a great miracle that a frail woman went out into the streets of Calcutta and the world of sufferers, to touch and cure the sores of lepers and caress the untouchables of societies. During her youth hood as an young girl, she revealed that Jesus was her first love. Sacrifice of her life for the downtrodden was the response to a call from Jesus. Her central message was her love to Jesus first and then to her neighbour. During a public function of Mother Theresa's honour, then Prime Minister of Indira Ghandhi told 'In this world of today, so frenetic, it is easy to forget the most essential things. Mother Teresa teaches us that love is what is most essential.' 

Born in 1910 she joined the Sisters of Loreto in 1928. She took the name "Teresa" after St. Teresa of Avila, patroness of the Missionaries. Theresa started the Missionaries of Charity, at age of 36, with an amazing spiritual maturity. In 1948 she founded her order, which served the blind, the aged, lepers, the disabled, and the dying.   Mother Teresa arrived in Motijeelof Calcutta in 1947, asking slum dwellers whether there were children she could teach. Teresa soon had scores of students learning their lessons in tin-roofed shacks. The community later built brick-and-plaster classrooms. She founded an order of nuns called the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta, India dedicated to serving the poor. In 1948, she came across a half-dead woman lying in front of a Calcutta hospital. She stayed with the woman and served her until she died. From that point on, she dedicated the majority of her life to helping the poorest of the poor in India, thus gaining her the name "Saint of the Gutters."  Almost 50 years later, the Missionaries of Charity have grown from 12 sisters in India to over 3,000 in 517 missions throughout 100 countries worldwide. 

Mother Teresa's voyage of sacrifice in India began, in Calcutta's Creek Lane, narrow for a pedestrian to pass a bicycle rickshaw. Three years before her start of the voyage, she had heard a call from God "to serve Him among the poorest of the poor." She had been granted permission to found her own order, the Missionaries of Charity, in 1950.

In 1952, she founded the Nirmal Hriday Home for the Dying in a former temple in Calcutta, the first of many homes for sick and dying street people. It was there that they would care for the dying Indians that were found on the streets. Here, Mother Teresa and her sisters cleaned maggots from the rotting faces of leprosy victims, washed the emaciated bodies of the malnourished, held the hands of the dying. 1953, 28 other women had joined her work. Mother had seen Jesus in everyone that she met. It didn't matter whether they were dying of AIDS or Leprosy. She wanted them to be able to die in peace and with dignity. For over 50 years, she worked selflessly helping the poor. That devotion towards the poor won her respect throughout the world and the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979. In 1963 the Indian government awarded her the Padmashri ("Lord of the Lotus") for her services to the people of India, and in 1971 Pope Paul VI awarded her the first Pope John XXIII Peace Prize. Eventually she became worthy to be beautified as a Saint.

She dedicated every day of her adult life caring for "The dying, the cripple, the mentally ill, the unwanted, the unloved" and she loved every minute of it because she was loving, she was cleaning, feeding "Jesus in disguise". Yes, she fed them, sheltered them, cleaned their wounds, but what is more important she made them feel good, loved, wanted, she gave them back their dignity that poverty had taken away from them and even if they died they died with a smile on their face....somebody loves them, somebody cares for them ....

During 1974 Mother told in an interview "I see God in every human being. When I wash the leper's wounds I feel I am nursing the Lord himself. Is it not a beautiful experience?" This quotation of Mother Threrasa if enough for any God loving person to understand the meaning of real love Jesus taught to us and to get inspired. "This not enough for us to say 'I love God', but I also have to love my neighbor. St.John says that you are a liar if you say you love God and you don't love neighbor. How can you love God whom you do not see, if you do not love your neighbor whom you see, whom you touch, with whom you live?"...Mother Theresa. The Nobel peace laureate, who founded a worldwide charity, died Sept. 5, 1997 At her death, the Missionaries of Charity had 4,000 nuns and ran 517 orphanages, soup kitchens, homeless shelters and clinics around the world. 

Over the last two decades of her life, Mother had suffered from heart problems. She suffered a heart attack during a 1983 visit with Pope John Paul II. She suffered another, and more serious, heart attack in 1989. It was then that a pacemaker was installed. During her last year, she suffered from malaria and was treated for a chest infection. Mother died in her convent in India at the age of 87.

Mother Teresa was a living saint and she will be greatly missed for ever. Eternal rest grant unto her Lord, and may Perpetual light shine upon her. May she rest in peace. ;

During here funeral the Message from Pope John Paul read as ' ...Mother Teresa of Calcutta understood fully this gospel of love. She understood it with every fiber of her indomitable spirit and every ounce of energy of her frail body. She practiced it with all her heart and through the daily toil of her hands, crossing the frontiers of religious and ethnic differences she has taught the world this lesson - it is more blessed to give than to receive. ... The beggar, the leper, the victim of AIDS, do not need discussions and theories -- they need love. ... The archbishop of Calcutta, Henry D'Souza: "Perhaps the greatest message she has given to the world is the value and dignity of human life. All human life is precious, in whatever condition we find it, from the womb, to the tomb. "