To a great extent the level of any civilization is the level of its womanhood. When a man loves a woman, he has to become worthy of her. The higher her virtue, the more her character, the more devoted she is to truth, justice, goodness, the more a man has to aspire to be worthy of her. The history of civilization could actually be written in terms of the level of its women.”
-- Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen
Great quote, and really, what a long way we women have to go to meet those standards!
ReplyDeleteYes, we do have a long way to go but we know that Our Lord will help us and Our Lady is our model. What a grace it is to be a Catholic woman! Can we ever thank God enough for this?
ReplyDeleteSadly, the race for equality has led many women to begin acting more like men and thus the idea of a virtuous woman, with that of the chivalrous male, has gone the way of fairy tales. I pray to God that I might instill in my boys some sense of what it means not just to be male but rather to be a man in the way God has intended. And I pray that somewhere there are daughters being raised with high virtue to take them out of themselves to lofty aspirations.
ReplyDeleteI echo your prayers, Eutychus, even as I am certain that they are being heard. Chivalry is not dead, though it may slumber, and virtuous women live, though they are sometimes hidden.
ReplyDeleteIf it were not so, life would be to hard to bear. :-)
ReplyDeletethat would be " "too" hard to bear" of course.
ReplyDelete(and not nearly as exciting.)