February 26
What is Catholic Women’s Leadership?
“The active enterprise by Catholic women to bring the world to Jesus Christ and Jesus Christ to the world by emulating the Blessed Virgin Mary’s magnanimity of soul, servant’s heart, and conformity to the will of God.”
-Johnnette Benkovic Williams
February 25
“Magnanimity and humility define the leader. Magnanimity is the quest of the spirit for great things. He who strives for greatness and seeks to correspond to it is magnanimous. Magnanimity is rooted in a firm confidence in the highest possibilities of human nature.
Humility is the habit of living in the truth about one’s metaphysical condition, and one’s strengths and weaknesses. It is also the habit of service to family and friends, colleagues and clients, society at large, and indeed all of humanity. Humility fosters in leaders the ambition to serve unconditionally.”
-Alexandre Havard, Virtuous Leadership
February 24
“The woman’s soul is fashioned as a shelter in which other souls may unfold.”
-St. Teresa Benedicta
February 23
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”
-Jeremiah 1:5
King Tut’s sarcophagus. (Image courtesy of Wikicommons Images, D. Denisenkov, CC BY-SA 2.0 DEED)
JK asks: “After reading your blogs on curses, I began to wonder about the famous curse of King Tut and if you believe demons were behind the sudden passage of all those people who died after being involved in the opening of his tomb.”
JP writes: “Do you know anything about using magnets for psychiatric problems? My friend has been going to a new age care center for this treatment. She is not getting any better. She is getting worse in fact. Thanks for any information.”
Liza shares that through the Women of Grace Foundational Study Program, “Full of Grace: Women and the Abundant Life,” she developed a relationship with Mary as her mother and experienced the awesome power of prayer.
February 22
“Our love of neighbour is the measure of our love of God. For Christians — and not only for them — no one is a ‘stranger’. The love of Christ knows no borders.”
-St. Teresa Benedicta
February 21
“Everywhere the need exists for maternal sympathy and help… but in accordance with the model of the Mother of Mercy, it must have its root in universal divine love for all who are there, belabored and burdened.”
-St. Teresa Benedicta
SM asks: “Now that I’m beginning to learn more about the New Age and the occult, I’ve become concerned about a children’s game we used to play at sleepovers where we used to levitate one another by using just one or two fingers on each hand. The person would lay on the floor and we’d encircle them, everyone with one or two fingers slipped under their body. We’d say some kind of chant and then, on the count of three, lift them into the air. Are you familiar with this game and were we inadvertently consorting with occult powers when performing this trick?”
