Juvenaly Martinka wrote:My point as I said was not that women should just sit in the wings and do nothing and that that is what is meant in Scripture I was more referencing the Communion aspect of his ministry and the "ordainment of women" as "lay ministers" etc.
From 'The Life of St. Olympia the Deaconess': "
Deaconesses were responsible for the female part of the congregation...the Deaconesses also took Communion to women who were ill and who otherwise could not attend. The Deaconess assisted in holy Baptism by anointing the whole body of the female candidate...."