In this enlightening video reflection, Mother Gabriella of Christ the Bridegroom Monastery shares about the importance of spiritual motherhood and the calling that all women have to live this vocation....
Five Feminine Virtues I Learned From the Joyful Mysteries
How many women ache in longing - in one way or another - for the men in their lives (fathers, husbands, boyfriends, sons) to man up? We see the problem, we get exasperated by it, we suffer for it... the struggles of so many men to be grown up, to behave chivalrously,...
Five Feminine Virtues I Learned From The Joyful Mysteries | Part 3: The Nativity
Relations between the sexes: Have they ever been worse? It's enough to tempt one to despair. Thankfully, the Church is a bulwark of sanity in every human realm, not least of all in matters of sex and sexuality, on the deepest, primordial realities of Male and Female....
Does True Womanhood Mean Becoming Exactly Like Men? Catholic Vlogger Emily Wilson Explains All
Womanhood is hard to define, even more so in a culture that suggests that there is no inherent difference between being male and female. What does womanhood mean? Is it less or more than manhood? Is there a distinct difference? Ascension Presents recently published a...
Five Feminine Virtues I Learned from the Joyful Mysteries (Part 2: The Visitation)
The 5-part series is the fruit of personal meditation, reading, and prayer. It is not an authoritative or comprehensive exposition, nor is it a theological treatment of the virtues as the Church names and categorizes them. Rather, it's meant to be an informal...
5 Feminine Virtues I Learned from Mary in the Joyful Mysteries of the Rosary (Part 1: The Annunciation)
These days, I find myself praying often for a restoration of the masculine and feminine virtues in society. There's so much confusion swirling about, whether it's "gender ideology," sexual orientation, body dysmorphia, or otherwise. We all feel the tensions mounting...
Champion of the Feminine, Martyr of Auschwitz: 18 Beautiful Quotes from St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross
St. Teresa Benedicta. Do you know her? You ought to. Edith Stein was born in 1891 in Germany, the youngest of 11 children. She was raised Jewish but fell away from the faith and all belief in God as a teen. Highly gifted, Stein grew up to obtain her doctorate in...
What It Looks Like When Feminine Beauty Speaks Truth To Power
A wise, sane, holy man –G.K. Chesterton- once said that “the modern world is full of the old Christian virtues gone mad. The virtues have gone mad because they have been isolated from each other and are wandering alone. Thus some scientists care for truth, and their...
24 Unstoppable Catholic Women Doing Amazing Things for God (Updated)
Have you ever heard it said that the Catholic Church oppresses women? Many are quick to pass judgment on what they think is the truth of the Catholic faith. In reality, the Catholic Church esteems women and calls us to live out the beauty of our femininity in a way...
11 Things Which Make a Woman Truly Beautiful
In many cases, the concept of beauty has been reduced to the exterior, physical appearance; looking good, dressed well, properly groomed, fashionable, perfectly proportioned… Sadly, in this way we have lost sight of its true meaning: the beauty which comes from the...
Restoring Sanity By Recovering Femininity And Masculinity
“Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world.” (1 John 4:1) Outrage-fatigue. That’s how I feel about the cacophony of institutionalized Feminist resentment that...
A Message of Love from A Woman to All Women: You Are Loveable
I love this music video by the musician Colby Caillat. She communicates a poignant message, made all the more powerful by the stark unmasking of the women of various ages and shapes as they remove their make-up and their aesthetic “enhancements.” So many of us notice...