ABSTRACT
Mary as a priest, it might be a good idea to consider one special consequence of the fact that Mary gave birth to Christ before she could be a priest at the altar of his sacrificial death. Ordinarily, it would be a priest who places the bread and wine of the eucharist on the altar during the sacrifice of the mass, and it would be the priest who consecrates the eucharistic elements and officiates in a reenactment of the sacrifice of Christ over the altar. Another way to represent Mary as a priest was to counterpose her positive action in the history of salvation to the negative action of her predecessor Eve. There is, for example, the famous miniature created by Berthold Furtmeyr for the missal of Salzburg Archbishop Bernhard von Rohr. Women's ordination to the Catholic priesthood has long been blocked by the all-male church hierarchy.
