text: Where to begin?  The Seder was/is a family feast.  No family is complete without its women members.  The feast was/is prepared by women and the aftermath of the feast was/is cleaned up by the women (although in some families a few men graciously help).  Jesus, Who was Himself a layman, instituted no priesthood.  There was already an active Jewish priesthood.  Had He wanted to be a priest He would have incarnated into the priestly tribe.  Our current iteration of priesthood owes as much to Roman administrative concepts as it does to Jewish  beliefs, and Jesus, as we all know, was a faithful Jew.  Apostles are messengers, in this case messengers of the Good News.  Mary Magdalene bears the title Apostle to the Apostles. 
  What does seem abundantly clear is that the all male priesthood we know is stultifying (deservedly) from the inside because it lacks the wisdom and strength of half of God's children.