April 24
“Those who remain silent are responsible.”
-St. Teresa Benedicta
Tag Archives: Catholic Women’s Leadership
Is your heart open?
April 23
“The soul of woman must be expansive and open to all human beings, it must be quiet so that no small weak flame will be extinguished by stormy winds; warm so as not to benumb fragile buds… empty of itself, in order that extraneous life may have room in it; finally, mistress of itself and also of its body, so that the entire person is readily at the disposal of every call.”
-St. Teresa Benedicta
How can you be more receptive to His plans?
April 22
“Things were in God’s plan which I had not planned at all. I am coming to the living faith and conviction that—from God’s point of view—there is no chance and that the whole of my life, down to every detail, has been mapped out in God’s divine providence and makes complete and perfect sense in God’s all-seeing eyes.”
-St. Teresa Benedicta
Do you begin your day with prayer?
April 21st
“Let go of your plans. The first hour of your morning belongs to God. Tackle the day’s work that he charges you with, and he will give you the power to accomplish it.”
-St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross
Know, receive, and love Jesus!
March 27
“We still have one short question to answer: ‘How are Catholic women to accomplish their providential role as spiritual mothers (with Mary) of the human race?’ The answer is simplicity itself. Like Mary –
- They are to know Jesus from daily intimacy with Him in prayer
- They are to receive Jesus by often receiving Him into their hearts
- They are to love Jesus, by spending themselves in serving the needs of Christ’s children as they have never done before.”
-Fr. John A Hardon, S.J.
The heart of the Church
March 26
“The limitless loving devotion to God, and the gift God makes of Himself to you, are the highest elevation of which the heart is capable; it is the highest degree of prayer. The souls that have reached this point are truly the heart of the Church.”
-St. Teresa Benedicta
Drawn into God
March 25
“The deeper one is drawn into God, the more one must ‘go out of oneself’; that is, one must go to the world in order to carry the divine life into it.”
-St. Teresa Benedicta
Follow in Mary’s footsteps
March 24
“I am confident that the Holy Spirit is sending down His gifts of fiery tongues on the Church today – and with emphasis on the women. He is inspiring them to follow in Mary’s footsteps and do for the beleaguered faithful in our day what she did for the infant Church in her day. Time and again our Holy Father has appealed to the faithful women as they stand beneath Christ’s bleeding Mystical Body to carry on Mary’s role as Mother of the Church in our time.”
-The Apostolate of Women by Fr. John Hardon, S.J.
Save the peace of the world
March 23
“Reconcile men with life and above all, we beseech you, watch carefully over the future of our race. Hold back the hand of man, who, in a moment of folly, might attempt to destroy human civilization… Women of the entire universe… you to whom life is entrusted at this grave moment in history, it is for you to save the peace of the world.”
-Closing Message to Women, Second Vatican Council
The vocation of woman
March 22
“The hour is coming, in fact has come, when the vocation of woman is being acknowledged in its fullness, the hour in which women acquire in the world an influence, an effect, and a power never hitherto achieved. That is why, at this moment when the human race is undergoing so deep a transformation, women impregnated with a spirit of the Gospel can do so much to aid humanity in not falling.”
-Closing Message to Women, Second Vatican Council
