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"The Christian Mother"
-The Education of her Children and her Prayer
Benzinger, Brothers 1880
This little book is not, what at first sight it may appear to be, a hasty composition, but the result of a constant intercourse with the hearts of little ones for more than a quarter of a century. It is an attempt to bring within the capacity and feeling of very youthful minds the spirit and practice of Catholic devotion.
"As we have seen, the Church looks upon the vocation of a Christian mother as a thing of the greatest importance. This is the reason she introduces her with prayer and blessing into the house of God when she makes her first visit to it after her delivery. From that time she is called, in the name and place of the Church, to assist her child, her tender boy or girl, in obtaining that happiness which Christ has prepared for it, and must therefore, first of all, lead it to the practice of piety and of the fear of God."
#motherhood #women
-The Education of her Children and her Prayer
Benzinger, Brothers 1880
This little book is not, what at first sight it may appear to be, a hasty composition, but the result of a constant intercourse with the hearts of little ones for more than a quarter of a century. It is an attempt to bring within the capacity and feeling of very youthful minds the spirit and practice of Catholic devotion.
"As we have seen, the Church looks upon the vocation of a Christian mother as a thing of the greatest importance. This is the reason she introduces her with prayer and blessing into the house of God when she makes her first visit to it after her delivery. From that time she is called, in the name and place of the Church, to assist her child, her tender boy or girl, in obtaining that happiness which Christ has prepared for it, and must therefore, first of all, lead it to the practice of piety and of the fear of God."
#motherhood #women
Archbishop Fulton Sheen on the subject of equity and equality
Taken from "The World's First Love"
The two basic errors of both Communism and Historical Liberalism on the subject of women are: (1) that women were never emancipated until modern times, since religion particularly kept them in servitude; (2) that equality means the right of a woman to do a man's work.
It is not true that women began to be emancipated in modern times and in proportion to the decline of religion. Woman's subjection began in the seventeenth century, with the breakup of Christendom, [taking its] form at the time of the Industrial Revolution. Under the Christian civilization women enjoyed rights, privileges, honors, and dignities which have since been swallowed up by the machine age. No one has better dissipated the false idea than Mary Beard in her scholarly work: Woman as Force in History. She points out that, of eighty-five guilds in England during the Middle Ages, seventy-two had women members on an equal basis with men, even in such professions as barbers and sailors. They were probably as outspoken as men, for one of the rules of the guilds was that "the sistern as well as the brethren" may not engage in disorderly or contumacious debates. In Paris, there were fifteen guilds reserved exclusively for women, while eighty of the Parisian guilds were mixed. Nothing is more erroneous historically than the belief that it was our modern age which recognized women in the professions.The records of these Christian times reveal the names of thousands upon thousands of women who influenced society and whose names are now enrolled in the catalogue of Saints --- Catherine of Siena alone having left eleven large volumes of her writings. Up to the seventeenth century in England, women engaged in business, and perhaps even more so than today; in fact, so many wives were in business that it was provided by law that the husbands should not be responsible for their debts. Between 1553 and 1640, ten per cent of the publishing in England was done by women. Because the homes had their own weaving, cooking, and laundry, it has been estimated that women in pre-industrial days were producing half the goods required by society.
In the Middle Ages women were as well educated as men, and it was not until the seventeenth century that women were barred from education. Then, at the time of the Industrial Revolution, all the activities and freedom of women were curtailed, as the machine took over the business of production and men moved into the factory. Then came a loss of legal rights by women, which reached its fullness in Blackstone, who pronounced woman's "civil death" in law.
As these disabilities continued, woman felt the loss of her freedom, and rightly so, because she felt she had been hurt by man and robbed of her legal rights; and she fell into the error of believing that she ought to proclaim herself equal with man, forgetful that a certain superiority was already hers because of her functional difference from man. Equality then came to mean, negatively, the destruction of all privileges enjoyed by specific persons or classes, and, positively, absolute and unconditioned sex equality with men. These ideas were incorporated into the first resolution for sex equality passed in Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848: "Resolved that woman is man's equal, was intended to be so by the Creator, and the highest good of the race demands that she be recognized as such."
This brings us to the second error in the bourgeois-capitalistic theory of women, namely, the failure to make a distinction between mathematical and proportional equality. Mathematical equality implies exactness of remuneration, for example, that two men who work at the same job at the same factory should receive equal pay. Proportional equality means that each should receive this pay according to his function.
#fultonsheen #women #communism
Taken from "The World's First Love"
The two basic errors of both Communism and Historical Liberalism on the subject of women are: (1) that women were never emancipated until modern times, since religion particularly kept them in servitude; (2) that equality means the right of a woman to do a man's work.
It is not true that women began to be emancipated in modern times and in proportion to the decline of religion. Woman's subjection began in the seventeenth century, with the breakup of Christendom, [taking its] form at the time of the Industrial Revolution. Under the Christian civilization women enjoyed rights, privileges, honors, and dignities which have since been swallowed up by the machine age. No one has better dissipated the false idea than Mary Beard in her scholarly work: Woman as Force in History. She points out that, of eighty-five guilds in England during the Middle Ages, seventy-two had women members on an equal basis with men, even in such professions as barbers and sailors. They were probably as outspoken as men, for one of the rules of the guilds was that "the sistern as well as the brethren" may not engage in disorderly or contumacious debates. In Paris, there were fifteen guilds reserved exclusively for women, while eighty of the Parisian guilds were mixed. Nothing is more erroneous historically than the belief that it was our modern age which recognized women in the professions.The records of these Christian times reveal the names of thousands upon thousands of women who influenced society and whose names are now enrolled in the catalogue of Saints --- Catherine of Siena alone having left eleven large volumes of her writings. Up to the seventeenth century in England, women engaged in business, and perhaps even more so than today; in fact, so many wives were in business that it was provided by law that the husbands should not be responsible for their debts. Between 1553 and 1640, ten per cent of the publishing in England was done by women. Because the homes had their own weaving, cooking, and laundry, it has been estimated that women in pre-industrial days were producing half the goods required by society.
In the Middle Ages women were as well educated as men, and it was not until the seventeenth century that women were barred from education. Then, at the time of the Industrial Revolution, all the activities and freedom of women were curtailed, as the machine took over the business of production and men moved into the factory. Then came a loss of legal rights by women, which reached its fullness in Blackstone, who pronounced woman's "civil death" in law.
As these disabilities continued, woman felt the loss of her freedom, and rightly so, because she felt she had been hurt by man and robbed of her legal rights; and she fell into the error of believing that she ought to proclaim herself equal with man, forgetful that a certain superiority was already hers because of her functional difference from man. Equality then came to mean, negatively, the destruction of all privileges enjoyed by specific persons or classes, and, positively, absolute and unconditioned sex equality with men. These ideas were incorporated into the first resolution for sex equality passed in Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848: "Resolved that woman is man's equal, was intended to be so by the Creator, and the highest good of the race demands that she be recognized as such."
This brings us to the second error in the bourgeois-capitalistic theory of women, namely, the failure to make a distinction between mathematical and proportional equality. Mathematical equality implies exactness of remuneration, for example, that two men who work at the same job at the same factory should receive equal pay. Proportional equality means that each should receive this pay according to his function.
#fultonsheen #women #communism
Ecce Verbum
Archbishop Fulton Sheen on the subject of equity and equality Taken from "The World's First Love" The two basic errors of both Communism and Historical Liberalism on the subject of women are: (1) that women were never emancipated until modern times, since…
Continued:
In a family, for example, all children should be cared for by the parents, but this does not mean that, because sixteen-year-old Mary gets an evening gown with an organdy trim, the parents should give seventeen-year-old Johnnie the same thing. Women, in seeking to regain some of the rights and privileges they had in Christian civilization, thought of equality in mathematical terms or in terms of sex. Feeling themselves overcome by a monster called "man," they identified freedom and equality with the right to do a man's job. All the psychological, social, and other advantages which were peculiar to women were ignored until the inanities of the bourgeois world reached their climax in Communism, under which a woman is emancipated the moment she goes to work in a mine. The result has been that woman's imitation of man and her flight from motherhood has developed neuroses and psychoses which have reached alarming proportions. The Christian civilization never stressed equality in a mathematical sense, but only in the proportional sense, for equality is wrong when it reduces the woman to a poor imitation of a man. Once woman became man's mathematical equal, he no longer gave her a seat in a bus, and no longer took off his hat in an elevator. (In a New York subway recently a man gave a woman his seat and she fainted. When she revived, she thanked him, and he fainted.)
Modern woman has been made equal with man, but she has not been made happy. She has been "emancipated," like a pendulum removed from a clock and now no longer free to swing, or like a flower which has been emancipated from its roots. She has been cheapened in her search for mathematical equality in two ways: by becoming a victim to man and a victim to the machine. She became a victim to man by becoming only the instrument of his pleasure and ministering to his needs in a sterile exchange of egotisms. She became a victim to the machine by subordinating the creative principle of life to the production of nonliving things, which is the essence of Communism.
This is not a condemnation of a professional woman, because the important question is not whether a woman finds favor in the eyes of a man, but whether she can satisfy the basic instincts of womanhood. The problem of a woman is whether certain God-given qualities, which are specifically hers, are given adequate and full expression. These qualities are principally devotion, sacrifice, and love. They need not necessarily be expressed in a family, nor even in a convent. They can find an outlet in the social world, in the care of the sick, the poor, the ignorant --- in the seven corporal works of mercy. It is sometimes said that the professional woman is hard. This may in a few instances be true, but if so it is not because she is in a profession, but because she has alienated her profession from contact with human beings in a way to satisfy the deeper cravings of her heart. It may very well be that the revolt against morality and the exaltation of sensuous pleasure as the purpose of life are due to the loss of the spiritual fulfillment of existence. Having been frustrated and disillusioned, such
souls first become bored, then cynical, and finally, suicidal.
The solution lies in a return to the Christian concept, wherein stress is placed not on equality but on equity. Equality is law. It is mathematical, abstract, universal, indifferent to conditions, circumstances, and differences. Equity is love, mercy, understanding, sympathy- it allows the consideration of details, appeals, and even departures from fixed rules which the law has not yet embraced. In particular, it is the application of law to an individual person. Equity places its reliance on moral principles and is guided by an understanding of the motives of individual families which fall outside the scope of the rigors of law.
#fultonsheen #women #communism
In a family, for example, all children should be cared for by the parents, but this does not mean that, because sixteen-year-old Mary gets an evening gown with an organdy trim, the parents should give seventeen-year-old Johnnie the same thing. Women, in seeking to regain some of the rights and privileges they had in Christian civilization, thought of equality in mathematical terms or in terms of sex. Feeling themselves overcome by a monster called "man," they identified freedom and equality with the right to do a man's job. All the psychological, social, and other advantages which were peculiar to women were ignored until the inanities of the bourgeois world reached their climax in Communism, under which a woman is emancipated the moment she goes to work in a mine. The result has been that woman's imitation of man and her flight from motherhood has developed neuroses and psychoses which have reached alarming proportions. The Christian civilization never stressed equality in a mathematical sense, but only in the proportional sense, for equality is wrong when it reduces the woman to a poor imitation of a man. Once woman became man's mathematical equal, he no longer gave her a seat in a bus, and no longer took off his hat in an elevator. (In a New York subway recently a man gave a woman his seat and she fainted. When she revived, she thanked him, and he fainted.)
Modern woman has been made equal with man, but she has not been made happy. She has been "emancipated," like a pendulum removed from a clock and now no longer free to swing, or like a flower which has been emancipated from its roots. She has been cheapened in her search for mathematical equality in two ways: by becoming a victim to man and a victim to the machine. She became a victim to man by becoming only the instrument of his pleasure and ministering to his needs in a sterile exchange of egotisms. She became a victim to the machine by subordinating the creative principle of life to the production of nonliving things, which is the essence of Communism.
This is not a condemnation of a professional woman, because the important question is not whether a woman finds favor in the eyes of a man, but whether she can satisfy the basic instincts of womanhood. The problem of a woman is whether certain God-given qualities, which are specifically hers, are given adequate and full expression. These qualities are principally devotion, sacrifice, and love. They need not necessarily be expressed in a family, nor even in a convent. They can find an outlet in the social world, in the care of the sick, the poor, the ignorant --- in the seven corporal works of mercy. It is sometimes said that the professional woman is hard. This may in a few instances be true, but if so it is not because she is in a profession, but because she has alienated her profession from contact with human beings in a way to satisfy the deeper cravings of her heart. It may very well be that the revolt against morality and the exaltation of sensuous pleasure as the purpose of life are due to the loss of the spiritual fulfillment of existence. Having been frustrated and disillusioned, such
souls first become bored, then cynical, and finally, suicidal.
The solution lies in a return to the Christian concept, wherein stress is placed not on equality but on equity. Equality is law. It is mathematical, abstract, universal, indifferent to conditions, circumstances, and differences. Equity is love, mercy, understanding, sympathy- it allows the consideration of details, appeals, and even departures from fixed rules which the law has not yet embraced. In particular, it is the application of law to an individual person. Equity places its reliance on moral principles and is guided by an understanding of the motives of individual families which fall outside the scope of the rigors of law.
#fultonsheen #women #communism
Dignity_of_Woman_EN .pdf
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"The Nature, Dignity and Mission of Woman"
By Fr. Karl Stehlin.
There comes a time in the life of a young person when he begins to ask himself: “Who am I, really? What distinguishes me from other people, from the things around me?” Usually it is the stress of the painful experiences of life that causes him to ask further about the meaning of the whole thing: “Why am I the way that I am? Why am I living in this time and at this place? Not uncommonly a girl arrives at this question because she feels at a disadvantage compared with men.
"Who shall find a valiant woman? far and from the uttermost coasts is the price of her."
Women are attacked on all sides. On one side of the attack women are sub-par creatures, not helpmates and companions but slaves to men, never to develop the immense talents given by God. On the other side, far more common in our age, women are to remake themselves entirely into the strict imitation of men.
This work is a resounding cry by Fr. Stehlin against both of these errors.
#women
By Fr. Karl Stehlin.
There comes a time in the life of a young person when he begins to ask himself: “Who am I, really? What distinguishes me from other people, from the things around me?” Usually it is the stress of the painful experiences of life that causes him to ask further about the meaning of the whole thing: “Why am I the way that I am? Why am I living in this time and at this place? Not uncommonly a girl arrives at this question because she feels at a disadvantage compared with men.
"Who shall find a valiant woman? far and from the uttermost coasts is the price of her."
Women are attacked on all sides. On one side of the attack women are sub-par creatures, not helpmates and companions but slaves to men, never to develop the immense talents given by God. On the other side, far more common in our age, women are to remake themselves entirely into the strict imitation of men.
This work is a resounding cry by Fr. Stehlin against both of these errors.
#women
"Man and Woman"
by Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
"In human love there are two poles: man and woman. In Divine love there are two poles: God and man. From this difference, finite in the first instance, infinite in the second, arise the major tensions of life. The difference in the God-man relationship between Eastern religions and Christianity is that in the East man moves toward God; in Christianity, God moves first toward man. The Eastern way fails because man cannot lift himself by his own bootstraps. Grass does not become a banana, through its own efforts. If carbon and phosphates are to live in man, man must come down to them, and elevate them to himself. So if man is to share the Divine Nature, God must come down to man. This is the Incarnation.
The first difference in the man-woman relationship can be understood in terms of a philosophical distinction between intelligence and reason which St. Thomas Aquinas makes, and which has saved his followers from falling into errors like those of Henri Bergson. Intelligence is higher than reason. The Angels have intelligence, but they have no reason. Intelligence is immediacy of understanding and, in the domain of knowledge, is best explained in terms of "seeing." When a man says, "I see," he means that he grasps and comprehends. Reason, however, is slower. It is mediate, rather than immediate. It makes no leap, but takes steps. These steps in a reasoning process are threefold: major, minor, conclusion.
Applying the distinction to man and woman, it is generally true that man's nature is more rational and woman's, more intellectual. The latter is what is generally meant by intuition. The woman is slower to love, because love, for her, must be surrounded by a totality of sentiments, affections, and guarantees. The man is more impulsive, wanting pleasures and satisfactions, sometimes outside of their due relationship. For the woman, there must be a vital bond of relationship between herself and the one she loves. The man is more on the periphery and rim, and does not see her whole personality involved in his pleasures. The woman wants unity, the man, pleasure.
A second difference is between reigning and governing. The man governs the home, but the woman reigns. Government is related to justice; reigning is related to love. Instead of man and woman being opposites, in the sense of contraries, they more properly complement one another as their Creator intended when He said: "It is not good for man to be alone."'
"The man is normally more serene than the woman, more absorbent of the daily shocks of life, less disturbed by trifles. But, on the other hand, in great crises of life, it is the woman who, because of her gentle power of reigning, can give great consolation to man in his troubles."
"The Book of Genesis reveals that Original Sin did create a tension between man and woman, which tension is solved in principle by man and woman in the New Testament becoming "one flesh" and a symbol of the unity of Christ and His Church. This harmony, then, should exist between man and woman, in which each fills up, at the store of the other, his or her lacking measure in quiet and motion."
Full text:
http://www.catholictradition.org/Mary/man-woman.htm
"The World's First Love" by F. Sheen pdf
#women #men #fultonsheen
by Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
"In human love there are two poles: man and woman. In Divine love there are two poles: God and man. From this difference, finite in the first instance, infinite in the second, arise the major tensions of life. The difference in the God-man relationship between Eastern religions and Christianity is that in the East man moves toward God; in Christianity, God moves first toward man. The Eastern way fails because man cannot lift himself by his own bootstraps. Grass does not become a banana, through its own efforts. If carbon and phosphates are to live in man, man must come down to them, and elevate them to himself. So if man is to share the Divine Nature, God must come down to man. This is the Incarnation.
The first difference in the man-woman relationship can be understood in terms of a philosophical distinction between intelligence and reason which St. Thomas Aquinas makes, and which has saved his followers from falling into errors like those of Henri Bergson. Intelligence is higher than reason. The Angels have intelligence, but they have no reason. Intelligence is immediacy of understanding and, in the domain of knowledge, is best explained in terms of "seeing." When a man says, "I see," he means that he grasps and comprehends. Reason, however, is slower. It is mediate, rather than immediate. It makes no leap, but takes steps. These steps in a reasoning process are threefold: major, minor, conclusion.
Applying the distinction to man and woman, it is generally true that man's nature is more rational and woman's, more intellectual. The latter is what is generally meant by intuition. The woman is slower to love, because love, for her, must be surrounded by a totality of sentiments, affections, and guarantees. The man is more impulsive, wanting pleasures and satisfactions, sometimes outside of their due relationship. For the woman, there must be a vital bond of relationship between herself and the one she loves. The man is more on the periphery and rim, and does not see her whole personality involved in his pleasures. The woman wants unity, the man, pleasure.
A second difference is between reigning and governing. The man governs the home, but the woman reigns. Government is related to justice; reigning is related to love. Instead of man and woman being opposites, in the sense of contraries, they more properly complement one another as their Creator intended when He said: "It is not good for man to be alone."'
"The man is normally more serene than the woman, more absorbent of the daily shocks of life, less disturbed by trifles. But, on the other hand, in great crises of life, it is the woman who, because of her gentle power of reigning, can give great consolation to man in his troubles."
"The Book of Genesis reveals that Original Sin did create a tension between man and woman, which tension is solved in principle by man and woman in the New Testament becoming "one flesh" and a symbol of the unity of Christ and His Church. This harmony, then, should exist between man and woman, in which each fills up, at the store of the other, his or her lacking measure in quiet and motion."
Full text:
http://www.catholictradition.org/Mary/man-woman.htm
"The World's First Love" by F. Sheen pdf
#women #men #fultonsheen
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Archbishop Fulton Sheen's Famous Book on The Blessed Virgin Mary.
"...many women, especially as a result of social and cultural conditioning, do not become fully aware of their dignity. Others are victims of a materialistic and hedonistic outlook which views them as mere objects of pleasure, and does not hesitate to organize the exploitation of women, even of young girls, into a despicable trade. Special concern needs to be shown for these women, particularly by other women who, thanks to their own upbringing and sensitivity, are able to help them discover their own inner worth and resources. Women need to help women, and to find support in the valuable and effective contributions which associations, movements and groups, many of them of a religious character, have proved capable of making in this regard.
Women have the right to insist that their dignity be respected. At the same time, they have the duty to work for the promotion of the dignity of all persons, men as well as women."
John Paul II, Letter to Women 🔗
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Women have the right to insist that their dignity be respected. At the same time, they have the duty to work for the promotion of the dignity of all persons, men as well as women."
John Paul II, Letter to Women 🔗
#women
Ecce Verbum
3680-3366.pdf
The role of women in patriotic teaching of Blessed Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński
In his teaching, Wyszyński often spoke of the importance and dignity of women. He drew attention to the equality of women and men in their dignity before God. Incidentally, it is worth recalling that Cardinal Wyszynski always stood up when a woman entered the room, regardless of whether she was simple or educated, young or old. He had great respect for women, whom he held in high esteem.
He emphasized the importance of maternity but saw the vocation of women in a much broader context. He stressed that not all women had a call to family life, which should be respected. He greatly appreciated the spiritual and intellectual potential of women, convinced that God had endowed them very generously and that they should make use of it. He never disqualified them. He saw the value of what they contributed to society, culture and to the life of the Church. He said that the social aspirations of women had to be properly understood and recognized by the Church and the clergy. As Cardinal Wyszyński’s biographer, points out, in the Primate’s days more women worked in various commissions of the Polish Bishops’ Conference than today.
It is worth recalling that the Primate also had interesting and concrete proposals for flexible social solutions, which recognized women’s role and made it possible to combine maternity with work outside the home. He always stood on the side of women and in their defense.
He was also aware of the importance of the pastoral care of women and their special spiritual needs. He repeated that the departure of men from the Church is not yet the greatest drama, but the departure of women is the ultimate catastrophe.
A woman is supposed to enrich public, social and cultural life by making it more human.
“Perhaps then non-human world of steel forces will change into human world of open maternal arms, in which law will not be steel and fist, but love"
He called: „Our technology is threatened with being non-human. Reconcile people with life, and most of all keep guard – that is what we ask of You. Hold a man’s hand (to women), who at the moment of rage would try to destroy human civilisation”.
Priest Primate warned against building a too masculinised world. He said that war experiences distorted social relations: “Human life hardened as well as human voice, his nerves, sight and face. We cannot withdraw from it”.
Priest Primate saw a need of cooperation of male and female components to reach genuine culture in the contemporary world, more human, and simultaneously more divine. As an example, he used to provide cooperation of Jesus and Mary. He said that all virtues, personality features of man and woman must be harmonised to act jointly and guard against subsequent terrible disasters.
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#women
In his teaching, Wyszyński often spoke of the importance and dignity of women. He drew attention to the equality of women and men in their dignity before God. Incidentally, it is worth recalling that Cardinal Wyszynski always stood up when a woman entered the room, regardless of whether she was simple or educated, young or old. He had great respect for women, whom he held in high esteem.
He emphasized the importance of maternity but saw the vocation of women in a much broader context. He stressed that not all women had a call to family life, which should be respected. He greatly appreciated the spiritual and intellectual potential of women, convinced that God had endowed them very generously and that they should make use of it. He never disqualified them. He saw the value of what they contributed to society, culture and to the life of the Church. He said that the social aspirations of women had to be properly understood and recognized by the Church and the clergy. As Cardinal Wyszyński’s biographer, points out, in the Primate’s days more women worked in various commissions of the Polish Bishops’ Conference than today.
It is worth recalling that the Primate also had interesting and concrete proposals for flexible social solutions, which recognized women’s role and made it possible to combine maternity with work outside the home. He always stood on the side of women and in their defense.
He was also aware of the importance of the pastoral care of women and their special spiritual needs. He repeated that the departure of men from the Church is not yet the greatest drama, but the departure of women is the ultimate catastrophe.
A woman is supposed to enrich public, social and cultural life by making it more human.
“Perhaps then non-human world of steel forces will change into human world of open maternal arms, in which law will not be steel and fist, but love"
He called: „Our technology is threatened with being non-human. Reconcile people with life, and most of all keep guard – that is what we ask of You. Hold a man’s hand (to women), who at the moment of rage would try to destroy human civilisation”.
Priest Primate warned against building a too masculinised world. He said that war experiences distorted social relations: “Human life hardened as well as human voice, his nerves, sight and face. We cannot withdraw from it”.
Priest Primate saw a need of cooperation of male and female components to reach genuine culture in the contemporary world, more human, and simultaneously more divine. As an example, he used to provide cooperation of Jesus and Mary. He said that all virtues, personality features of man and woman must be harmonised to act jointly and guard against subsequent terrible disasters.
source 🔗
#women
Ecce Verbum
"Man and Woman" by Bishop Fulton J. Sheen "In human love there are two poles: man and woman. In Divine love there are two poles: God and man. From this difference, finite in the first instance, infinite in the second, arise the major tensions of life. The…
"Defending the honor and reputation of the Mother of God"- on dignity of women
Rick Salbato "The Publican", Vol2, no8; 1999
Excerpts p.1
God put Adam in a deep sleep and then opened the side of Adam to bring out Eve. God created Eve out of the rib of Adam. And God has created nothing on His own since. The last thing that God created without the co-operation of the natural process was woman. In the same way God would create the Church out of the side of Christ.
A woman is the tabernacle of creation. God and woman work together to create something in the image and likeness of God that can never die. Only woman can create with God. Only woman, not even angels, can give to God a living soul. Only woman shares creative power with God. Only woman shares in the creative suffering that Christ suffered. Woman is sacred to God, and therefore, could never be a servant as man is. Woman is sacred and therefore must be treated as sacred. She must be dressed holy, and honored, and respected, and waited on, just as anything holy.
Not even the angels can do what woman can do, create a living soul. And this is what Scripture means by “because of the angels”. Everything about women sounds out as God’s greatest creation.
Yes! Man was placed over the woman to be her authority. Sometimes I think it was because God didn’t give man anything else, so he gave him the one thing he could give, which is authority. But then Christ answered that when he washed the feet of the apostles. As I have done, so you do. He who is the greatest of authority is the servant of the rest. Man is in authority so that he can be the servant of the family. It is man’s job, just as the High Priest, to protect the woman and the children. He must provide for them, protect them from danger. Honor them with the best he can provide. Woman must be left alone to socialize the children and the man, and therefore the world.
A family is like a box of diamonds. The man is the box that holds everything together. The woman and children are the diamonds. When the box lets go, the diamonds scatter. When the woman wants to be the box, you end up with two empty boxes. Scripture counted boxes and not the diamonds, because God loves the family unit.
Woman is to be subject to her husband for the same reason soldiers must be subject to their captain. He must have that authority in order to protect the lives of his men. So too, must a man have that authority to protect his family. Man must love is wife like Christ loves his Church, and this is a great mystery, I mean in reference to the Church. What does Paul mean as a great mystery. When God reached into the heart of Adam and pulled out God’s greatest creation, He was for-shadowing when He would reach into the heart of Christ as He also slept, and bring forth the Church. Men must love and protect and reverence women in the same way that Christ loves his Church, which came forth from His own Heart.
The Forth Commandment demands that we obey all authority in all things except sin, for all authority comes from God, even bad authority. So teaches the Church. In the family we must look to the greatest of all families for guidance. The least in the family, Joseph, was the greatest in authority. The greatest, Christ (God) was the least in authority. Mary who was the greatest of all creation and would be Queen of Heaven and Earth, obeyed Joseph in all things. Then let us consider the example Christ gave us regarding obeying our mother.
Mary came to Christ and said, “Son, they have no wine.” His answer in Greek is the whole mystery of women. In the Greek it reads “What is that between you and I, woman.” Or in modern English it would read, “What is that between our agreement.”
In other words, back 18 years earlier, Mary said to Christ something like this, even if not in words, “Son! You always obey your own commandments as an example to others. I wish to hold you to the Forth Commandment and not go about Your Father’s business until I give you permission.”
part2
#women #men
Rick Salbato "The Publican", Vol2, no8; 1999
Excerpts p.1
God put Adam in a deep sleep and then opened the side of Adam to bring out Eve. God created Eve out of the rib of Adam. And God has created nothing on His own since. The last thing that God created without the co-operation of the natural process was woman. In the same way God would create the Church out of the side of Christ.
A woman is the tabernacle of creation. God and woman work together to create something in the image and likeness of God that can never die. Only woman can create with God. Only woman, not even angels, can give to God a living soul. Only woman shares creative power with God. Only woman shares in the creative suffering that Christ suffered. Woman is sacred to God, and therefore, could never be a servant as man is. Woman is sacred and therefore must be treated as sacred. She must be dressed holy, and honored, and respected, and waited on, just as anything holy.
Not even the angels can do what woman can do, create a living soul. And this is what Scripture means by “because of the angels”. Everything about women sounds out as God’s greatest creation.
Yes! Man was placed over the woman to be her authority. Sometimes I think it was because God didn’t give man anything else, so he gave him the one thing he could give, which is authority. But then Christ answered that when he washed the feet of the apostles. As I have done, so you do. He who is the greatest of authority is the servant of the rest. Man is in authority so that he can be the servant of the family. It is man’s job, just as the High Priest, to protect the woman and the children. He must provide for them, protect them from danger. Honor them with the best he can provide. Woman must be left alone to socialize the children and the man, and therefore the world.
A family is like a box of diamonds. The man is the box that holds everything together. The woman and children are the diamonds. When the box lets go, the diamonds scatter. When the woman wants to be the box, you end up with two empty boxes. Scripture counted boxes and not the diamonds, because God loves the family unit.
Woman is to be subject to her husband for the same reason soldiers must be subject to their captain. He must have that authority in order to protect the lives of his men. So too, must a man have that authority to protect his family. Man must love is wife like Christ loves his Church, and this is a great mystery, I mean in reference to the Church. What does Paul mean as a great mystery. When God reached into the heart of Adam and pulled out God’s greatest creation, He was for-shadowing when He would reach into the heart of Christ as He also slept, and bring forth the Church. Men must love and protect and reverence women in the same way that Christ loves his Church, which came forth from His own Heart.
The Forth Commandment demands that we obey all authority in all things except sin, for all authority comes from God, even bad authority. So teaches the Church. In the family we must look to the greatest of all families for guidance. The least in the family, Joseph, was the greatest in authority. The greatest, Christ (God) was the least in authority. Mary who was the greatest of all creation and would be Queen of Heaven and Earth, obeyed Joseph in all things. Then let us consider the example Christ gave us regarding obeying our mother.
Mary came to Christ and said, “Son, they have no wine.” His answer in Greek is the whole mystery of women. In the Greek it reads “What is that between you and I, woman.” Or in modern English it would read, “What is that between our agreement.”
In other words, back 18 years earlier, Mary said to Christ something like this, even if not in words, “Son! You always obey your own commandments as an example to others. I wish to hold you to the Forth Commandment and not go about Your Father’s business until I give you permission.”
part2
#women #men
Ecce Verbum
"Defending the honor and reputation of the Mother of God"- on dignity of women Rick Salbato "The Publican", Vol2, no8; 1999 Excerpts p.1 God put Adam in a deep sleep and then opened the side of Adam to bring out Eve. God created Eve out of the rib of Adam.…
Defending the honor and reputation of the Mother of God -on dignity of women
Rick Salbato "The Publican"; Vol2, no8; 1999
Excerpts p.2
18 years later, Christ is saying to His Mother, “Are you now giving Me permission to go about My Father’s business. With tears in Her Eyes, She knew that She could not hold him back any longer. “Do whatever He asks of you.” Christ changed the water to wine and started His Father’s business.
He could not come into the world without Mary saying, “Yes!” to the angel. Without Her “Yes!” we could not be saved. Without Her, “Do whatever He asks of you.” we could not be saved.
You young men, hold a woman in awe. When you look at women, look with respect and even envy, knowing that you were given the commandment to care for them. Know this also, that before you were created God knew you, and if He meant for you to be married, He picked your wife for you before you were born. If you have an affair with a woman, you are not only committing a sacrilege against God’s tabernacle of creation, but you are committing adultery against the wife you have not met yet. You would be wise to say to your future wife:
" I have been loyal to you all my life, even before I met you, because I knew that God chose you for me. I have loved you even before I met you and will all the days of my life."
You husbands, remember St. Joseph. He was the first in authority but the last before the eyes of God and in grace. St. Joseph was picked to protect and care for the diamonds. You should treat your wives with respect and even awe. Provide for them, protect them, never let even the children give them any disrespect. Stand up when they come into the room. Wait on them at the dinner table. Make sure they have all they need to do what they do best, socialize the world. Men could never socialize the world. Women are social, we are animal. They are loving, we are fighters; and we should be, for that is how we protect the diamonds.
Woman has no seed, but in Genesis 3:15 God said, “I will put enmities between thee and the woman, and thy seed and her seed.” The Devil has no seed and the woman has no seed. Man has the seed. But in this case God produced Christ without the use of man, and therefore all of the Son of God came from Mary without the help of man. Mary’s children are those who keep the commandments of Her Son, and Satan’s seed are those who brake the commandments of Her Son. One of those commandments is to Honor (kabed) your Father and Mother. This type of honor, unlike hadar, is reserved for God and Father and Mother only. It means to reverence, venerate and revere. We must treat our wives and mothers with the same reverence we would treat God face to face, or the way we would treat the Holy Grail that held the blood of Christ, for women are the holy grails of creation.
part1
#women #men
Rick Salbato "The Publican"; Vol2, no8; 1999
Excerpts p.2
18 years later, Christ is saying to His Mother, “Are you now giving Me permission to go about My Father’s business. With tears in Her Eyes, She knew that She could not hold him back any longer. “Do whatever He asks of you.” Christ changed the water to wine and started His Father’s business.
He could not come into the world without Mary saying, “Yes!” to the angel. Without Her “Yes!” we could not be saved. Without Her, “Do whatever He asks of you.” we could not be saved.
You young men, hold a woman in awe. When you look at women, look with respect and even envy, knowing that you were given the commandment to care for them. Know this also, that before you were created God knew you, and if He meant for you to be married, He picked your wife for you before you were born. If you have an affair with a woman, you are not only committing a sacrilege against God’s tabernacle of creation, but you are committing adultery against the wife you have not met yet. You would be wise to say to your future wife:
" I have been loyal to you all my life, even before I met you, because I knew that God chose you for me. I have loved you even before I met you and will all the days of my life."
You husbands, remember St. Joseph. He was the first in authority but the last before the eyes of God and in grace. St. Joseph was picked to protect and care for the diamonds. You should treat your wives with respect and even awe. Provide for them, protect them, never let even the children give them any disrespect. Stand up when they come into the room. Wait on them at the dinner table. Make sure they have all they need to do what they do best, socialize the world. Men could never socialize the world. Women are social, we are animal. They are loving, we are fighters; and we should be, for that is how we protect the diamonds.
Woman has no seed, but in Genesis 3:15 God said, “I will put enmities between thee and the woman, and thy seed and her seed.” The Devil has no seed and the woman has no seed. Man has the seed. But in this case God produced Christ without the use of man, and therefore all of the Son of God came from Mary without the help of man. Mary’s children are those who keep the commandments of Her Son, and Satan’s seed are those who brake the commandments of Her Son. One of those commandments is to Honor (kabed) your Father and Mother. This type of honor, unlike hadar, is reserved for God and Father and Mother only. It means to reverence, venerate and revere. We must treat our wives and mothers with the same reverence we would treat God face to face, or the way we would treat the Holy Grail that held the blood of Christ, for women are the holy grails of creation.
part1
#women #men
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"Defending the honor and reputation of the Mother of God"- on dignity of women
Rick Salbato "The Publican", Vol2, no8; 1999
Excerpts p.1
God put Adam in a deep sleep and then opened the side of Adam to bring out Eve. God created Eve out of the rib of Adam.…
Rick Salbato "The Publican", Vol2, no8; 1999
Excerpts p.1
God put Adam in a deep sleep and then opened the side of Adam to bring out Eve. God created Eve out of the rib of Adam.…
Ecce Verbum
theology_of_the_body (1).pdf
Communio personarum as God's plan for man and woman and its distortion by original sin
"Recent years have seen new approaches to women's issues. A first tendency is to emphasize strongly conditions of subordination in order to give rise to antagonism: women, in order to be themselves, must make themselves the adversaries of men. Faced with the abuse of power, the answer for women is to seek power. This process leads to opposition between men and women, in which the identity and role of one are emphasized to the disadvantage of the other, leading to harmful confusion regarding the human person, which has its most immediate and lethal effects in the structure of the family."
"From the very beginning humanity is described as articulated in the male-female relationship. This is the humanity, sexually differentiated, which is explicitly declared “the image of God”.(Gn1:27)
"With regard to this text from Genesis, “...woman is another ‘I' in a common humanity. From the very beginning they appear as a ‘unity of the two', and this signifies that the original solitude is overcome."
"The Hebrew word ezer which is translated as “helpmate” indicates the assistance which only a person can render to another. It carries no implication of inferiority or exploitation if we remember that God too is at times called ezer with regard to human beings (cf. Ex 18:4; Ps10:14)."
“In the ‘unity of the two', man and woman are called from the beginning not only to exist ‘side by side' or ‘together', but they are also called to exist mutually ‘one for the other"
"Although God's original plan for man and woman will later be upset and darkened by sin, it can never be abrogated."
"When humanity considers God its enemy, the relationship between man and woman becomes distorted."
"God's decisive words to the woman after the first sin express the kind of relationship which has now been introduced between man and woman: “your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you” (Gn 3:16). It will be a relationship in which love will frequently be debased into pure self-seeking, in a relationship which ignores and kills love and replaces it with the yoke of domination of one sex over the other. Indeed the story of humanity is continuously marked by this situation, which recalls the three-fold concupiscence mentioned by Saint John: the concupiscence of the flesh, the concupiscence of the eyes and the pride of life (cf. 1 Jn 2:16). In this tragic situation, the equality, respect and love that are required in the relationship of man and woman according to God's original plan, are lost. It follows then that the relationship is good, but wounded and in need of healing."
"Above all, the fact that human beings are persons needs to be underscored: “Man is a person, man and woman equally so, since both were created in the image and likeness of the personal God”.Their equal dignity as persons is realized as physical, psychological and ontological complementarity, giving rise to a harmonious relationship of “uni-duality”, which only sin and “the structures of sin” inscribed in culture render potentially conflictual. The biblical vision of the human person suggests that problems related to sexual difference, whether on the public or private level, should be addressed by a relational approach and not by competition or retaliation."
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Letter of Benedict XVI on the collaboration between men and women in the Church and in the world
#women #men
"Recent years have seen new approaches to women's issues. A first tendency is to emphasize strongly conditions of subordination in order to give rise to antagonism: women, in order to be themselves, must make themselves the adversaries of men. Faced with the abuse of power, the answer for women is to seek power. This process leads to opposition between men and women, in which the identity and role of one are emphasized to the disadvantage of the other, leading to harmful confusion regarding the human person, which has its most immediate and lethal effects in the structure of the family."
"From the very beginning humanity is described as articulated in the male-female relationship. This is the humanity, sexually differentiated, which is explicitly declared “the image of God”.(Gn1:27)
"With regard to this text from Genesis, “...woman is another ‘I' in a common humanity. From the very beginning they appear as a ‘unity of the two', and this signifies that the original solitude is overcome."
"The Hebrew word ezer which is translated as “helpmate” indicates the assistance which only a person can render to another. It carries no implication of inferiority or exploitation if we remember that God too is at times called ezer with regard to human beings (cf. Ex 18:4; Ps10:14)."
“In the ‘unity of the two', man and woman are called from the beginning not only to exist ‘side by side' or ‘together', but they are also called to exist mutually ‘one for the other"
"Although God's original plan for man and woman will later be upset and darkened by sin, it can never be abrogated."
"When humanity considers God its enemy, the relationship between man and woman becomes distorted."
"God's decisive words to the woman after the first sin express the kind of relationship which has now been introduced between man and woman: “your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you” (Gn 3:16). It will be a relationship in which love will frequently be debased into pure self-seeking, in a relationship which ignores and kills love and replaces it with the yoke of domination of one sex over the other. Indeed the story of humanity is continuously marked by this situation, which recalls the three-fold concupiscence mentioned by Saint John: the concupiscence of the flesh, the concupiscence of the eyes and the pride of life (cf. 1 Jn 2:16). In this tragic situation, the equality, respect and love that are required in the relationship of man and woman according to God's original plan, are lost. It follows then that the relationship is good, but wounded and in need of healing."
"Above all, the fact that human beings are persons needs to be underscored: “Man is a person, man and woman equally so, since both were created in the image and likeness of the personal God”.Their equal dignity as persons is realized as physical, psychological and ontological complementarity, giving rise to a harmonious relationship of “uni-duality”, which only sin and “the structures of sin” inscribed in culture render potentially conflictual. The biblical vision of the human person suggests that problems related to sexual difference, whether on the public or private level, should be addressed by a relational approach and not by competition or retaliation."
source
Letter of Benedict XVI on the collaboration between men and women in the Church and in the world
#women #men
Ecce Verbum
Communio personarum as God's plan for man and woman and its distortion by original sin "Recent years have seen new approaches to women's issues. A first tendency is to emphasize strongly conditions of subordination in order to give rise to antagonism: women…
On the meaning of Eser kenegdo (a helper) in the book of Genesis
St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross
source: Essays on Woman, chapter II - The Separate Vocations of Man and Woman According to Nature and Grace, pages 61-62 🔗
*The Hebrew word ezer which is translated as “helpmate” indicates the assistance which only a person can render to another. It carries no implication of inferiority or exploitation if we remember that God too is at times called ezer with regard to human beings (cf. Ex 18:4; Ps10:14).- Benedict XVI 🔗
#marriage #women
St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross
source: Essays on Woman, chapter II - The Separate Vocations of Man and Woman According to Nature and Grace, pages 61-62 🔗
*The Hebrew word ezer which is translated as “helpmate” indicates the assistance which only a person can render to another. It carries no implication of inferiority or exploitation if we remember that God too is at times called ezer with regard to human beings (cf. Ex 18:4; Ps10:14).- Benedict XVI 🔗
#marriage #women
Ecce Verbum
"...many women, especially as a result of social and cultural conditioning, do not become fully aware of their dignity. Others are victims of a materialistic and hedonistic outlook which views them as mere objects of pleasure, and does not hesitate to organize…
Holy_women_Benedict_XVI,_Pope,_1927_2011_Huntington,_Ind_Our_Sunday.pdf
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Holy women
Benedict XVI
From Scripture through today, women have always played a unique and critical role in Church history. In his weekly addresses, Benedict XVI expertly and thoughtfully explores the life stories of 17 holy women
Hildegard of Bingen, Claire of Assisi, Matilda of Hackeborn, Gertrude the Great, Angela of Foligno, Elizabeth of Hungary, Bridget of Sweden, Marguerite d'Oingt, Juliana of Cornillon, Catherine of Siena, Julian of Norwich, Veronica Giuliani, Catherine of Bologna, Catherine of Genoa, Joan of Arc, Teresa of Ávila, Thérèse of Lisieux
"The Church gives thanks for all the manifestations of the feminine genius which have appeared in the course of history, in the midst of all peoples and nations; she gives thanks for all the charisms that the Holy Spirit distributes to women in the history of the People of God, for all the victories which she owes to their faith, hope, and charity: she gives thanks for all the fruits of feminine holiness"
John Paul II, Letter to women 🔗
#women
Benedict XVI
From Scripture through today, women have always played a unique and critical role in Church history. In his weekly addresses, Benedict XVI expertly and thoughtfully explores the life stories of 17 holy women
Hildegard of Bingen, Claire of Assisi, Matilda of Hackeborn, Gertrude the Great, Angela of Foligno, Elizabeth of Hungary, Bridget of Sweden, Marguerite d'Oingt, Juliana of Cornillon, Catherine of Siena, Julian of Norwich, Veronica Giuliani, Catherine of Bologna, Catherine of Genoa, Joan of Arc, Teresa of Ávila, Thérèse of Lisieux
"The Church gives thanks for all the manifestations of the feminine genius which have appeared in the course of history, in the midst of all peoples and nations; she gives thanks for all the charisms that the Holy Spirit distributes to women in the history of the People of God, for all the victories which she owes to their faith, hope, and charity: she gives thanks for all the fruits of feminine holiness"
John Paul II, Letter to women 🔗
#women
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The soul of a woman
Catholic doctrine, already clearly contained in the Bible, teaches that the nature of woman is not inferior to that of man, that woman, like man, possesses an immortal soul, endowed with mental powers and subject to moral duties similar to those of man; that, like man, she is called to grace and to supernatural happiness, being able even to surpass him in the sublimity of God's gifts and in the greatness of her merits. The loving submission of the wife to her spouse in domestic life should not degenerate into bondage, into humiliation and oppression. While pagan civilisation degrades and corrupts woman almost as barbarously, while modern materialism and rationalism bring her back to the shamelessness of the old harems and lupanars, Catholicism, through its teachings, sacraments and religious institutions, constantly awakens in her feelings of dignity, patience, sweetness, which elevate her far above the ideal dreamt up for her by the wisest representatives of philosophy.
What we assert here is so far certain that of it no honest man would dare to deny a word. All accusations against a biblical woman, against a Christian woman, belong to the order of those which are not uttered in public and to which there is no need to respond - except with contempt. In recent times, however, it has come to be thought that the Church has not always had the same respect for woman that it does today, and that it has even denied her, or at least questioned her right to claim for herself a rational, spiritual, immortal soul similar to that of man. In support of this strange notion, a fact was cited which had been known for a long time, but in which scholars of earlier times did not see a similar allegation: namely, the treatise initiated at the Second Synod of Macon, which supposedly proves that the bishops of that time were not entirely convinced of the existence of a rational and immortal soul in woman. Let us therefore examine this allegation.
Gregory of Tours (Historia Francorum l. VIII, c. 20), a credulous and confused historian, if indeed he was even a historian, reports the fact which gave rise to this fable in this way: "At this synod (the second at Macon, held in 585, some say in 588) one of the bishops maintained that a woman could not be called a man (mulierem hominem non posse vocari). However, when other bishops explained the matter to him (ratione accepta), he agreed with their opinion (quievit); for the Old Testament Scriptures teach that God, creating man in the beginning, said: male and female he created them, and gave them the name Adam, that is, man of the earth (homo terrenus); and therefore he called woman the same as man, for he called both of them man (utrumque enim hominem dixit). Moreover, Christ the Lord is called the Son of man because He was the son of the Virgin, that is, of a woman. Finally explained by many more testimonies, the question is completed (causa quievit)". The canons of this second synod of Macon have been preserved, and on a careful reading of them it is difficult to understand why the whole dispute was initiated. It seems, therefore, to be completely incidental and in no way seems to concern a subject, otherwise not at all dogmatic, which this synod should have dealt with.
One single bishop, unsupported by any other bishop or episcopal delegate, comes up with the idea of raising a question which is reported by Gregory of Tours, without apparently attaching any great importance to it, which he would certainly not have failed to point out if this objection were what today's rationalists vainly want it to be. The difficulty does not concern the human and rational soul of a woman, but only the name man (homo), the application of which to a woman puzzles the Bishop -not a great theologian and a weak scholar. He confuses the word homo with the word vir, takes the name man (a human) with the name man (a male), and cannot understand how a woman could be called by the first of these names when she obviously cannot be called by the second.
🔗p.2, source
#women
Catholic doctrine, already clearly contained in the Bible, teaches that the nature of woman is not inferior to that of man, that woman, like man, possesses an immortal soul, endowed with mental powers and subject to moral duties similar to those of man; that, like man, she is called to grace and to supernatural happiness, being able even to surpass him in the sublimity of God's gifts and in the greatness of her merits. The loving submission of the wife to her spouse in domestic life should not degenerate into bondage, into humiliation and oppression. While pagan civilisation degrades and corrupts woman almost as barbarously, while modern materialism and rationalism bring her back to the shamelessness of the old harems and lupanars, Catholicism, through its teachings, sacraments and religious institutions, constantly awakens in her feelings of dignity, patience, sweetness, which elevate her far above the ideal dreamt up for her by the wisest representatives of philosophy.
What we assert here is so far certain that of it no honest man would dare to deny a word. All accusations against a biblical woman, against a Christian woman, belong to the order of those which are not uttered in public and to which there is no need to respond - except with contempt. In recent times, however, it has come to be thought that the Church has not always had the same respect for woman that it does today, and that it has even denied her, or at least questioned her right to claim for herself a rational, spiritual, immortal soul similar to that of man. In support of this strange notion, a fact was cited which had been known for a long time, but in which scholars of earlier times did not see a similar allegation: namely, the treatise initiated at the Second Synod of Macon, which supposedly proves that the bishops of that time were not entirely convinced of the existence of a rational and immortal soul in woman. Let us therefore examine this allegation.
Gregory of Tours (Historia Francorum l. VIII, c. 20), a credulous and confused historian, if indeed he was even a historian, reports the fact which gave rise to this fable in this way: "At this synod (the second at Macon, held in 585, some say in 588) one of the bishops maintained that a woman could not be called a man (mulierem hominem non posse vocari). However, when other bishops explained the matter to him (ratione accepta), he agreed with their opinion (quievit); for the Old Testament Scriptures teach that God, creating man in the beginning, said: male and female he created them, and gave them the name Adam, that is, man of the earth (homo terrenus); and therefore he called woman the same as man, for he called both of them man (utrumque enim hominem dixit). Moreover, Christ the Lord is called the Son of man because He was the son of the Virgin, that is, of a woman. Finally explained by many more testimonies, the question is completed (causa quievit)". The canons of this second synod of Macon have been preserved, and on a careful reading of them it is difficult to understand why the whole dispute was initiated. It seems, therefore, to be completely incidental and in no way seems to concern a subject, otherwise not at all dogmatic, which this synod should have dealt with.
One single bishop, unsupported by any other bishop or episcopal delegate, comes up with the idea of raising a question which is reported by Gregory of Tours, without apparently attaching any great importance to it, which he would certainly not have failed to point out if this objection were what today's rationalists vainly want it to be. The difficulty does not concern the human and rational soul of a woman, but only the name man (homo), the application of which to a woman puzzles the Bishop -not a great theologian and a weak scholar. He confuses the word homo with the word vir, takes the name man (a human) with the name man (a male), and cannot understand how a woman could be called by the first of these names when she obviously cannot be called by the second.
🔗p.2, source
#women