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If one has regular access to a traditional chapel, there is usually at least the possibility of establishing a women’s prayer group that involves praying the Rosary, wholesome fellowship and pot-lucks.

Early pioneering women had the fortitude and discipline to raise their children on farms alone, sometimes while the husband was gone for an entire winter, looking for work. There are many other similar, historical examples of this.

Modern lifestyles have greatly weakened our capacity for suffering and self-denial. Our Lady of Sorrows, the Queen of Courage, offers her assistance to those who approach her with confidence.

Most women travel hours to their chapel.  It is not feasible to start a rosary group.  And as for the pioneering woman, they literally had nobody near by which is a totally different scenario than what a woman deals with today.

Most women travel hours to their chapel.  It is not feasible to start a rosary group.  And as for the pioneering woman, they literally had nobody near by which is a totally different scenario than what a woman deals with today.

What about gathering together on a video chat platform to pray and converse, or spend time with one another after Mass? 

The point is that women have had to deal with much worse things and coped by the grace of God. 

Thousands of Catholic virgins and married women offered their lives in martyrdom in early Christian times.

But the modern trad woman complains if she has to wear a shirt covering her elbows.

We are cooked.

Yes.

It is not only the Faith that has been destroyed, but the very foundations upon which Faith rests, which is worse in some ways. A great portion of those women who sacrificed their lives were former pagans, who had noble dispositions even before their conversion; who understood basic philosophical truths such as the absurdity of relativism, the moral necessity of being subject to a man, they had an admiration for natural virtues in general, etc.

I recall Bishop Williamson remarking that modern education, particularly university, destroys this foundation of reason that Faith is built upon.

The key is to teach people, especially women, how to reason. But how is this done? God has to place His hand in their souls and reverse the damage Himself. He can do anything with a will that honestly desires the truth, but as long as this desire is not there, He is forced to cast them out of His presence.

What gives me hope is the promise of Our Lady’s triumph. Only she can restore what has been lost.