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Source: Axia Women We are glad to be able to share with you, by permission, a reflection by Abbess Katherine Weston–superior of the St. Xenia Monastic Community for over 30 years and the President of the Fellowship of St. Moses the Black–in which she considers the role of deaconesses and abbesses.  Today, because of the recent and conspicuous ordination of a female deacon in Zimbabwe, I want to start to say something about ordination. In our hyper-individualistic age, the most important thing to remember is the people are elevated to meet a need of the Church. I know a man…