734 (WOMAN/ EMANCIPATION/ VIRTUE/ VALOUR)
I remember once, when a
woman passed by the
monastery in such a
dress as if she actually
wore nothing!
An
impertinent question, spontaneous and
unrestrained, then came to me:
“Why, Oh God,
did you create women? Why have women
no brains?”
In the days that followed, however, our
Church celebrated great holy women, almost daily…
I marvelled at their
accomplishments!!! I admired their
bravery!!! I admired their
holiness of
life!!!!
So, I
asked our Lord, Jesus Christ, for
forgiveness for these two
naive and
childish questions and
took back my
word… and even
more so, when
I remembered the
more honourable than the
Cherubim and
beyond compare more glorious than the
Seraphim, our
Queen, who is
more wide than the
Heavens, His All-Holy Mother and
our Mother, Panagia!!!
Indeed, when the
woman, who is
equal in
merit to the
man, is in her
natural dimensions and
standards, she may do
great things!!!
Says the righteous
Solomon in his book of
Proverbs (31:10):
Who can
find a
virtuous wife? For
her worth is
far above rubies.”
(that is, it is not easy to find a
fine woman with a
brave spirit and a
praiseworthy life! For she is
incomparably superior from
all precious stones.)
If you wish to read the whole
eulogy of the woman, in this chapter:
(Proverbs of Solomon 31, 10-31) see:
In other words,
the female sex won on this point… (of course, as long as the
woman, as I mentioned above,
maintains the
proper specifications made by our
Creator for
her…)
God created
woman beautiful according to her
nature!
Why do you,
woman, interfere with the
beauty of
nature, which in the end you
make ugly…with the
artificial interventions on your
face, with the various
make-ups and the
paintings…even on the
nails (which, alas, become more
dangerous than those of a lion!)
Do you not realize that with all these
interventions you are becoming
much uglier…? And yet you
delude yourself that they make you
more “beautiful”(!)
If I ask you
why you
do that, you will probably
answer that you
do it to please your
husband…
If this is
so, then why do you
not make up yourself when
you are at
home with your
husband, but do this when you go out of the
house?
Let me
give you the answer myself,
why you
do it:
Simply, to
satisfy your
feminine vanity and
egoism…
Let’s
be honest:
When a
woman makes-up her face, she’s actually putting a
sign on her
forehead that reads: “Do
not see me as a
soul, as a
fellow human being, but
see me as a woman!”
Please
understand, my sister, that the
true beauty of the
woman consists of:
1.
Maintaining her
natural (smiling) face, and not the
sloppy/made-up and
carnival-like face full of
make up.
2. Her
modest way of
dressing.
3. Her
modesty in
words and
conduct.
4. Her
true and
genuine love, compassion and
charity…
I wish this to you!