Celebrate International Women's Day Weekend

This coming weekend - 6th - 8th March - is a time to celebrate. It is International Women’s Day Weekend.
We should remember the wise words of Archbishop Desmond Tutu - a fervent supporter of women’s rights.
Speaking a few years ago following the ceremony to mark his Honorary Freedom of the City of London, he told an audience at the Mansion House of his joy at the rise of women to positions of authority.
It was a particular joy, he said, that in that very year London had elected a woman as Lord Mayor - only the second in the history of the city.
He went on  to talk about the benefits of ordaining women into the priesthood.
They brought, he said,”quite amazing” new attributes to the church.
“I just want to make a plea to those who may be wanting to hold back on this that you don’t know the incredible enrichment that is going to come your way as woman share with God’s church the headship. We now, I mean quite extraordinarily, have two women bishops – the only two women bishops in the whole of Africa.”
And he cautioned those whose social conservatism and adherence to tradition make them opposed to the idea of female clerics.
“Dear friends, we would be crazy to think that God had organised the world in this fashion – that over 50% of human kind should be denied the possibility of exercising the gift’s that God has given them. I myself think we will not see an end to war in the world, we will not see an end to rapacity, we will not see an end to the ghastly things that we see in Syria and in all of these other places until we let women be women. With their gentleness, their capacity to share. We have a saying in one of our languages, “A mother is able to share even the eye of a fly.” He added his own belief that “Men will never be able to reach the full extent of what it means to be human without women. And we will not see a world that has no war, a world where children don’t starve because someone has had to dump surplus in order not to spoil the market. Let women be women and then the rest of us will become human.”To show your support  for International Women's Day weekend join a LIVE stream March 6-8 via InternationalWomensDay.org or YouTube, or Facebook Live.