“You’re not humbled when you humble yourself, but when you are humbled by others and you bear it for Christ.”

                        -St. Josemaria Escriva

For Reflection:

Is God currently offering me an opportunity to grow in humility through others? What does St. Josemaria Escriva recommend so that I might mine the grace being offered me?

Full of Grace:
Women and the Abundant Life
Johnnette Benkovic
Pb 238 pgs
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Chapter One   Page 12
The Special Call and Gift of Woman

In their closing message of the Second Vatican Council, the Council Fathers expressed an urgent plea for women to accept God’s call:  The hour is coming, in fact has come, when the vocation of woman is being acknowledged in its fullness, the hour in which women acquire in the world an influence, an effect and a power never hitherto achieved.  That is why, at this moment when the human race is undergoing so deep a transformation, women impregnated with a spirit of the Gospel can do so much to aid humanity in not falling.