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Offline Elizabeth

Men and women of the forum please comment on my thoughts on women and
« Reply #65 on: May 16, 2012, 12:28:51 PM »
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Quote from: shin
I have found the quotation from St. Gemma.

'I recall very well one time I was given a gold watch and chain. Ambitious as I was, I could hardly wait to put it on and go out (an indication, dear Father that my imagination was working on me). I did in fact go out with it on and when I returned home and started to take it off I saw an angel (whom I recognized immediately as my Guardian Angel) who said to me very seriously; "Remember that the precious jewelry that adorns the spouse of the Crucified King can only be thorns and the cross."

I did not even tell my confessor about this. In fact, I now tell it for the first time. These words made me fear as did the angel himself. But a little later, while reflecting on them without understanding them at all, I made this resolution: I resolve for the love of Jesus and to please him, never to wear the watch again and not even to speak of things that savor vanity. At the time I also had a ring on my finger. I took it off immediately and from that day to this I have not worn such things.'

St. Gemma Galgani


Someone thumbed down this quote. Apparently, that someone thinks they know better than an angel of God

I think the angel knows more about what God considers Christian perfection in acting than you do, Member Who Thumbed It Down.


I gave you a thumb up to make up for this.

Maybe this was part of the particular spiritual path/mortification of St. Gemma???  I am pretty sure saints ahve seen Our Lady and others wearing jewels and flowers ....She is breathtakingly beautiful to look at without any decoration.
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Offline Marcelino

Men and women of the forum please comment on my thoughts on women and
« Reply #66 on: May 16, 2012, 10:22:50 PM »
I love the St. Gemma quote.

The "big picture" I see, in regards to women dressed immodestly, is that for men it's enslaving.  The enslavement is to their own lust, but women sort of control the "stuff" that men lust after.  So, in this way, men become enslaved to women.  It's like the relationship between a drug addict and a drug dealer.  Both are enslaved to their passions, but one is clearly dominant in the relationship.    

That I guess is supposed to be revolutionary, because it transfers power from men and gives it to women, thereby undermining "the patriarchy."  And this is rationalized as good/a necessary evil, because equality is supposed to be just.  
So, I think that's how the left/jews/cultural marxists/moderns/feminists whatever rationalize it, but it seems like it's just an attack on the natural order.  And, if you wear a bikini to the beach, you get to be a part of that war on the natural order, wittingly or not  :laugh1:  And if you wear modest clothing, you're sort of defending the natural order, because you aren't trying to turn men into "slaves."

It's stupid simple, but I think that's how it works!




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Offline Neil Obstat

Men and women of the forum please comment on my thoughts on women and
« Reply #67 on: May 21, 2012, 09:23:55 AM »
Quote from: shin
I have found the quotation from St. Gemma.

'I recall very well one time I was given a gold watch and chain. Ambitious as I was, I could hardly wait to put it on and go out (an indication, dear Father that my imagination was working on me). I did in fact go out with it on and when I returned home and started to take it off I saw an angel (whom I recognized immediately as my Guardian Angel) who said to me very seriously; "Remember that the precious jewelry that adorns the spouse of the Crucified King can only be thorns and the cross."

I did not even tell my confessor about this. In fact, I now tell it for the first time. These words made me fear as did the angel himself. But a little later, while reflecting on them without understanding them at all, I made this resolution: I resolve for the love of Jesus and to please him, never to wear the watch again and not even to speak of things that savor vanity. At the time I also had a ring on my finger. I took it off immediately and from that day to this I have not worn such things.'

St. Gemma Galgani


So this means St. Gemma Galgani would not wear a sterling silver rosary as a necklace?


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