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Traditional Catholic Faith => Catholic Living in the Modern World => Topic started by: cassini on May 28, 2025, 12:45:37 PM
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14 Qualities of a Virtuous Woman
Emotionally Mature – She handles conflicts with grace, avoids unnecessary drama, and thinks before she reacts.
A Good Communicator – She listens attentively, speaks with kindness, and expresses herself clearly without placing blame.
Patient and Understanding – She knows that every relationship has its ups and downs and remains patient through tough times.
A Supportive Partner – She encourages her husband’s dreams while pursuing her own, creating a relationship where both can thrive.
Knows When to Speak and When to Stay Silent – She understands that words have power and that sometimes silence speaks louder than anything.
Handles Conflict Peacefully – Instead of making problems worse, she focuses on solutions and values harmony over winning an argument.
Forgiving – She doesn’t hold grudges, choosing to let go of past mistakes and move forward with love and understanding.
Financially Wise – She manages money responsibly, plans for the future, and contributes to her family’s financial stability.
Respects Her Husband – She values his role, appreciates his efforts, and supports his leadership without diminishing her own voice.
Creates a Loving Home – She prioritizes making her home a place of peace, warmth, and love for her family.
Self-Aware – She understands her strengths and weaknesses and is always working on becoming a better version of herself.
Values Intimacy – She nurtures both emotional and physical closeness, recognizing that connection is key to a strong relationship.
Loyal and Trustworthy – She is faithful, honest, and dependable, building a solid foundation of trust in her marriage.
Grounded in Faith – She leans on her Faith for wisdom, strength, and guidance in her marriage and life.
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Thank you for this Cassini. Who is Fr Sean? Do you have a link?
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Very edifying post- Thank you!
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Thank you, I really appreciate this post!
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Thank you for this Cassini. Who is Fr Sean? Do you have a link?
Yes 2 Vermont, Sean Sheehy, Email
frlistowel@gmail.com
He is the Irish priest who sends me his articles I put up on CIF
https://www.cathinfo.com/catholic-living-in-the-modern-world/forgive-so-we-can-live-and-let-live/
It was attached to this weeks but was so good I put it up separately for all to read.
Hopefully he will follow it up with one for MEN.
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Yes, very good list, I should look over it every morning.
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Thank you for sharing this! May God help us women all to be virtuous.
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As rare as a unicorn. :smirk:
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Eve didn't want to be held accountable for her sin of disobeying God and following Satan, so she chose to drag Adam down with her. Misery loves company. Sound familiar, guys?
:popcorn:
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Eve didn't want to be held accountable for her sin of disobeying God and following Satan, so she chose to drag Adam down with her. Misery loves company. Sound familiar, guys?
:popcorn:
WWCS?
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Financially Wise – She manages money responsibly, plans for the future, and contributes to her family’s financial stability.
Yes, love of poverty:
On Virginity (https://isidore.co/calibre#panel=book_details&book_id=6549):
…it is not by beautifying herself, or by living a life of luxury, or by demanding from her husband money, or by being extravagant and lavish that she will be able to win him over. When she removes herself from all present concerns and imprints upon herself the apostolic way of life, when she displays great modesty, decorum, disdain for money and forbearance, then will she be able to capture him. When she says: "If we have food and clothing we have all that we need," [l Tim 6:8 (https://drbo.org/x/d?b=drl&bk=61&ch=6&l=8-#x)] when she practices this philosophy in her actions and, laughing at physical death, calls this life nothing, when she considers along with the prophet every glory of this life to be as the flower of the field, [Isa. 40:6 (http://drbo.org/x/d?b=drl&bk=27&ch=40&l=6-#x)] then she will capture him.
There are the 5 instructions given to Sarah (Tobias 10:13 (https://drbo.org/cgi-bin/d?b=drl&bk=17&ch=10&l=13-#x)), that she:
- honour her father and mother in law
- love her husband
- take care of the family
- govern the house
- behave herself irreprehensibly
Also, generosity:
another trait, which I've never seen mentioned in marriage-prep books, is whether a potential wife was raised by contracepting parents. Contraception is the opposite of generosity, and it is difficult for her to learn generosity when her parents themselves contracept and thus aren't generous. If she's from a big family, that's a sign her parents don't contracept; but among candidates for a potential wife from same-sized families, the ones whose parents don't contracept should be preferred.
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Eve didn't want to be held accountable for her sin of disobeying God and following Satan, so she chose to drag Adam down with her. Misery loves company. Sound familiar, guys?
:popcorn:
And Adam did not want to be lonely.
So how do you think the daughters of Eve, should be held accountable? :popcorn:
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And Adam did not want to be lonely.
So how do you think the daughters of Eve, should be held accountable? :popcorn:
Your question was answered long ago :popcorn:
Genesis 3:16 To the woman also he said: I will multiply thy sorrows, and thy conceptions: in sorrow shalt thou bring forth children, and thou shalt be under thy husband's power, and he shall have dominion over thee.
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Your question was answered long ago :popcorn:
Genesis 3:16 To the woman also he said: I will multiply thy sorrows, and thy conceptions: in sorrow shalt thou bring forth children, and thou shalt be under thy husband's power, and he shall have dominion over thee.
I am not sure that is the answer Nacho is thinking of. ::)
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PM (https://www.cathinfo.com/catholic-living-in-the-modern-world/traits-of-a-good-potential-wife-of-poverty-generosity/msg796538/#msg796538)
another trait, which I've never seen mentioned in marriage-prep books, is whether a potential wife was raised by contracepting parents. Contraception is the opposite of generosity, and it is difficult for her to learn generosity when her parents themselves contracept and thus aren't generous. If she's from a big family, that's a sign her parents don't contracept; but among candidates for a potential wife from same-sized families, the ones whose parents don't contracept should be preferred.
Don’t necessarily assume a person from a small family contracepted. My mother had medical issues and lost numerous pregnancies. For whatever reason, God intended only two of us to survive.
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Don’t necessarily assume a person from a small family contracepted.
I suppose a big family could contracept and a smaller one not.
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I suppose a big family could contracept and a smaller one not.
Yes, it’s possible, of course. Remember the anecdote of Bp. Fulton Sheen. He met a couple of newlyweds en route to Europe for their honeymoon at Lourdes. They told him that they planned to pray for a big family and light a candle. The bishop gave them his blessing. Twenty-five years later, the bishop encountered the same couple again on their way to Lourdes. He asked if they were lighting another candle. They replied, “No, Your Excellency, we’ve been blessed with two dozen children, so we’re going to blow the candle out.”
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PM (https://www.cathinfo.com/catholic-living-in-the-modern-world/traits-of-a-good-potential-wife-of-poverty-generosity/msg796538/#msg796538)Don’t necessarily assume a person from a small family contracepted. My mother had medical issues and lost numerous pregnancies. For whatever reason, God intended only two of us to survive.
True. I had 3 before my husband became a quadriplegic and spent 15 years in a nursing home and died from cancer. We had always talked about 6 (given our advanced ages that would have been a big family for us).