The Angelus

La Petite Jardiniere

This is what we are about: We plant the seeds that one day will grow. We water seeds already planted, knowing that they hold future promise." | Archbishop Oscar Romero
Gardening Daniel Ridgway Knight (American-born French genre painter, 1839-1924) la petite jardiniere

God's call to Beauty - Woman

Woman is a call to Beauty. To be a woman is a calling, a task to be fulfilled, not just a fact to declare. Being a woman is a vocation to be beautiful, not the kind of attractiveness that is exposed and exploited in today's advertisements that use the body of woman as a Thing, as a tool to sell their products. A woman's beauty is one of mystery, of hidden interiority, of withinness. It is a kind of beauty which comes from Goodness...

...in the heart that is open to kindness

...in a mind which seeks after wisdom

...in a heart that is faithful through suffering

...in a whole presence that is full of graciousness and a strength that comes from within.

To be a woman is to say in many different ways and yet in all uniqueness:

I am beautiful before God

I am beautiful before man

and beautiful before children

when I am most truly woman.


https://www.themotherscloister.com/journal/2017/10/23/beautiful-is-the-woman