This is why women can't pass the sacrament

Описание: Why can't LDS women pass the sacrament? I'm on a quest to figure it out. To my niece, this one's for you.

— “From Men to Boys: LDS Aaronic priesthood Offices, 1829-1996,” by William G. Hartley, in Journal of Mormon History, Vol. 39, No. 3 (Summer 2013), pp. 256-263: https://tinyurl.com/2aebctxn
— That quote from Francis Lyman: https://tinyurl.com/mrsk9757
— “Women’s Service and Leadership in the Church,” via the Church’s gospel topics and questions glossary (mentions blessings of healing/sacrament prep): https://tinyurl.com/yc64zkxx
— “‘None of these offices is he to do’: priests and the administration of the sacrament,” by Jonathan Stapley via By Common Consent: https://tinyurl.com/muzs2fnx
— “Ordained and Acting Teachers in the Lesser Priesthood, 1851-1883,” by William G. Hartley, BYU Studies vol. 16, no. 3 (Spring 1976): https://tinyurl.com/36yxjap8
— “Excessive Formalities in the Mormon Sacrament, 1928–1940,” by Justin R. Bray (Intermountain West Journal of Religious Studies, vol. 4, no. 1): https://tinyurl.com/dktdpyhd
— See also “The Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper” from chapter 4 of “The Power of Godliness: Mormon Liturgy and Cosmology,” by Jonathan Stapley (check your local library).
— See also, “My Fellow Servants: Essays on the History of the priesthood,” by William G. Hartley (check your local library).


Notes:

— The fact that “administering” the sacrament didn’t encompass “passing” the sacrament is further evidenced by a 1913 Improvement Era article that lists the duties of deacons, teachers and priests. While it was the duty of a deacon to “pass the sacrament,” it was the duty of a priest to “administer the sacrament” AND “pass the sacrament.” They are listed as two different things. See Hartley, pp. 118, and this link to the corresponding Improvement Era article: https://tinyurl.com/3d36cjrd

— “For the first seventy years since its inception, leaders entrusted older men of the higher, Melchizedek Priesthood with the task to distribute the emblems in sacrament services.” Source: https://tinyurl.com/dktdpyhd

— Researcher Jonathan Stapley wrote that “‘administering the sacrament’ hasn’t ever really been considered passing or preparing it (except in the contemporary church when the people conducting the meeting ‘thank the Aaronic Priesthood for administering the sacrament.’[)]


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