text: My studies some 60 yrs ago vehemently protested the idea that anybody other than a priest could do anything of this nature. Fortunately for me, life happened between then and now, and I am more open to vagueness and possibility, and have less a need to be judgmental and dogmatic. 
  
  When Jesus said, "Wherever two or three are gathered together in my name, I am with them", he didn't say anything about faculties, ordination, bishop's or church's permission, gender of whoever was "leading", what kind of clothes to wear, how the bread and winewere to be made, what kind of place the gatherig had to happen in, etc. 
  
  I'm re-re-reading Joseph Campbell on myth and our understanding of God-related matters. My feel for it is that it suggests varied insights about Eucharist, among other things. He is always an exciting experience.