No. It is against the entire 2,000-year Apostolic Church Tradition. Both Catholic and Oriental churches never admitted these practices because they originated with the Protestants. When a woman is at the altar of the presbytery in the sanctuary, there is an element of relativization of the priesthood. This is a phenomenon in which protestants can do whatever they want in their religious gatherings, and this is not the structure of the Catholic Church. This is why this is against the entire tradition and the place of women is not at the altar.
The women are representing the bride of the church, and the bride is in the nave of the church. They are symbolizing the Church as the bride of Christ. Symbolically, the men who are priests, servers, lectors, and other minor orders are included in the priesthood. This is also manifested symbolically with the male altar servers who serve and read, as this is also the first task of the priest.
It is wrong to assimilate that the lectors and the readers are an expression of the common priesthood because the common priesthood is in the nave of the church, where they are called to pray, participate, and receive Holy Communion. Receiving Holy Communion is the highest form of expression of the common priesthood. This is the perennial sense of the Church which unfortunately broke after the Council and revolutionized the liturgy through female servers and lectors.
I believe that this will stop and the Church will return sometime again to the perennial liturgical tradition since the apostles: that at the altar of the presbytery, all the servers will be male to represent Christ. The women and other men who represent the bride of the Church will be one family praising God along with the Holy Angels.
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