text: Sorry, but this is a most untraditional point of view--that the nature of the sacrament must be further defined before women are ordained deacon. 
  
  "True" traditionalist stand for defense of prior tradition, and that prior tradition embraces without qualification the practices of the unified Christian Church prior to the Great Schism. And within that tradition, women were ordained deacons. In honorific listings, they were listed after male deacons but before sub-deacons; but within byzantine practice, the fact all deacons were ordained behind the inconostatis and with essentially the same epiclesis prayer is definitive of Cheirotonia versus Cheirothesia. 
  
  Restoration of an established tradition, regardless of theological ambiguities about exactly what it all means, is, surely what we have a right to expect from true traditionalists, no? 
  
  BTW, please elaborate on diaconal role in Tridentine ritual. Your description does not match my recollection of the missa solemnis. Much intrigued!