The quote below, found in ENDOW’s “Discover Your Dignity: Part II” study.....(more on ENDOW’s DYD II here) provides us with a rich invitation to ponder how a strong woman lives out her vocation of love.
“The Bible does not praise the weak woman, but the strong one, when it says in the Book of Proverbs ‘it is kindly instruction she gives’ (Prov 31:26), because kindness is the summit of fortitude. The motherly woman has the privilege of this direct and important function----to know how to wait; to know how to be silent; being able, when faced with injustice or weakness, to turn a blind eye, to excuse, to cover shaming things up---which is no less a work of mercy than that of covering the nakedness of the body.”
Gertrud von le Fort, The Eternal Woman
"For both we and our words are in his hand, as are all understanding and skill in crafts." Wisdom 7:16
COME HOLY SPIRIT!!! Please give us your gifts to do the will of God for His glory! Please intercede for us, our Blessed Mother Mary!
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