It is well-known that St. Thérèse of Lisieux went on a pilgrimage to Rome before entering the Convent, with her father and sister, Céline.
In the book “The Story of a Family; the Home of the Little Flower”, published in 1947, the author states on p. 358 “The many warnings which forbade the weaker sex to enter certain sacred places, called forth from her [St. Thérèse] a vehement protest.”
Then he proceeds to quote the saint, from unpublished reminiscences:
“Every moment they were tellings us: ‘Don’t enter here…Don’t go in there…You will be excommunicated!’ Oh poor women! How they are despised! Yet they love the good God, and in far greater numbers than men! And during Our Lord’s Passion the women had more courage than the Apostles, since they braved the insults of the soldiers and dared to wipe the adorable Face of Jesus…Doubtless that is why He allows contempt to be their portion on earth, since He chose that for Himself…in Heaven, He will know well how to show that His thoughts are not those of men, for then the ‘last’ will be the first.’”
Source: https://archive.org/details/storyoffamilyhom0000piat/page/358/mode/2up
Some additional thoughts to reflect on: women and men need one another for the procreation and education of the human race. With all of this war of the sexes in society and even in places like CathInfo, do we think marriages will take place as much as they should, or even succeed? The family is the foundation of society, because society is a collection of families. With the state of the world today, we should tremble at how it reflects the current state of families.
In engaging in this kind of behaviour, are we not becoming the play-things of the devil, puppets in his hand? We should realize that this is a larger battle for the damnation and extermination of the human race, a battle that satan is winning, and we allow our wretched, petty passions, to rise up and dictate our words and actions, going right along with hell's plan for us. As Catholics, it is not proportionate to act in this manner, considering the graces we have received of baptism, our holy Faith, instruction, and all of the other sacraments and means of grace.
We are supposed to keep our passions subordinated to reason, and men are supposed to be the supreme example of this, having been gifted by God with a greater ability when it comes to logic. This gift, along with the gift of the true Faith, enables a man to become worthy of obedience and trust, and a wonderful protector of the morale, the sanity, and the stability of the woman.
Women are more inclined to be emotional, simply because it is required for their role as a mother, which involves nurturing, delicacy, greater compassion, and patience. That does not mean women cannot reason, it means that her use of reason demands more sacrifice, having to rise above a stronger inclination to emotion. Men and women ought to have great reverence and love for the respective gifts of each sex, and make use of them in accordance with the will of God, instead of despising and envying one another.
I will end with this famous quote about the creation of woman. Of course, when he says equal with man, we understand that as meaning equal in value, not in role.
“The woman was made of a rib out of the side of Adam; not made out of his head to rule over him, nor out of his feet to be trampled upon by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected, and near his heart to be beloved.”
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