Painting by Gregory Frank Harris
by Janet Kalven, 1946
The task of the unmarried woman is, by her whole-hearted surrender to God, to make virginity spiritually fruitful in the world. In embracing virginity, she should radiate purity and nobility of soul.
Her very existence, like that of the virgin consecrated in religion, should be a strong positive influence upholding the dignity of womanhood and the sanctity of marriage.
By developing her capacity for spiritual motherhood, she should become a source of strength and comfort and inspiration to mankind. Never has the world been so full of misery, so desperately in need of the healing influence of woman’s love.
The mission of the unmarried woman in this time is to give the full riches of her maternal love and devotion to alleviate the sufferings and renew the hope of mankind.
In order to accomplish her vocation, the single woman must find an appropriate sphere in which she can carry out her dedication to God through loving service of human beings.
She must strike out on new paths, searching for types of work in which she can use her womanly talents and develop her woman’s nature.
In the education and formation of the young; in agriculture, tending growing plants and animals; in the care of the sick, the weak, the poor, the helpless, woman finds fields of activity appropriate to her capacities as nurturer of life.
Unfortunately, work as it is carried on in these fields today often affords small opportunity for the use of woman’s characteristic talents.
In medicine, in education, in social work, we suffer from depersonalization, from too much large scale organization and mechanical routine, from too much concern with the physical aspects of the process.
We need women to pioneer in these fields again, bringing with them their gift for warmly personal service and creating truly womanly occupations.
We need women who will help to restore the emphasis on the spiritual, and who will make the work of healing, of teaching, of relieving the distressed a full expression of living charity between human persons.
“Youth is at the same time the most beautiful and the most dangerous period of life; it can be the most blessed, or the most fatal of seasons. It is the time of poetry and romance, of dreams and visions, of aspirations and ambitions, of the noblest impulses and the grandest resolves. But it is also the season of inexperience and immaturity, of impulsiveness and impetuosity, of conceit, of hasty ideas, undigested plans and precipitate action. By one heroic decision a young person can lay the foundations of future greatness; and by one misstep a youth can start headlong and irresistibly to utter and irretrievable ruin.”-Rev. Fulgence G. Meyer, 1920’s
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That was so beautiful that reading! The emphasis on the spiritual is so lacking! It is so desperately sad. When the spiritual is first, everything else falls into place. Thank you for an inspiring reading!
Forty dreams of Don bosco is an excellent book. 😉
This is great thank you. Although I am married now; this is just the sort of encouraging article I really valued when single.
It is wonderful to have your uplifting posts again – thank you and Happy Easter!
Indeed, it is true that the workfield has become more mechenical. Even in work which has feminine characteristics. It is most of all about money, competition and statistics and not about the personal side.In the nurse work or elderly homes this has become commonplace.
Maybe this is also due to feminism where women have lost the true feminine spirit and try to compete with men. Because of this women not only lose the softness and gentleness of their personality, but also there great worth and respect as women.
Society becomes harder when there are no opposites. The feminine side of women should balance and soften the hard and calculating side of men.
May we pray to Our Lady and hope that Christian single and all women can shine their feminity all through society!