🤎🧡The Wife Desired Senses What is Needed🤎🧡

 by Father Leo J. Kinsella, 1950’s

A real man likes to picture his wife as one with spirit and bounce. Because she is intelligent with a mind of her own she knows when to maintain a principle, when to be roguish and sportive. Gifted with imagination she can give herself to the game of intriguing her husband. Always she is exciting and vivacious.

The wife loves a little compliment here and there herself, so she knows the value of this form of encouragement. Incidentally, in most marriages heading for the rocks the couples exchange no compliments. Just the opposite is true between people who seem still to have some sort of possessive love for each other.

I do not suppose there exists a married couple who could not concentrate upon and draw up a list of each other’s shortcomings. The wise wife knows that there is no future in this mean indoor sport. She counts her blessings. She makes her husband’s good points the foundation upon which she strives to help him build improvements.

The ideal wife does not mother her husband. Yet she knows that he stands alone only with difficulty. Physical or mental pain may drive him to her. She knows how to accept him then with feeling.

Toward the end of his days a man can look back upon his life and find no greater accomplishment than his full success as a husband and father. All his varied activities possessed significance, really meant something only in relation to his role as husband and head of the house.

If he had great success in the cheap sense of the word and became very rich, but was a failure as a husband, what contentment is there in the last recollections of his life? What success, real or fictitious, can compensate for his failure as a husband?

No woman can escape sharing her husband’s misery or his contentment and peace. If she has contributed to his making, to her comes the reward of real happiness. No wife hurts her husband more than she hurts herself. No wife makes her husband happier than she makes herself.

🤎🧡The Ministry of Love in the Home🤎🧡

by J.R. Miller

There is no influence in all the world so gentle, so strong, so far-reaching, as the influence of a true woman’s heart.

It is not by great deeds that she builds up her home. It is by quiet words spoken in season, by little acts of watchful kindness, and by the thoughtful adapting of herself to the needs of those around her. A loving wife makes her home a place of peace. She smooths difficulties, softens harshness, and lifts life into a higher atmosphere by the warmth of her own spirit.

No one can estimate the power of the ministry of love. It inspires courage, sweetens burdens, and gives new hope to weary hearts. When love fills a home, light is in every room, music is in every word, and grace is in every task.

Love is the secret of a beautiful home.

🤎🧡Some Reflections🤎🧡

✿Thought:

“A wife creates the climate of the home by her presence. Her tone, her glance, her manner — these things speak louder than words.”

✿Reflection:

How true this is. A woman who is gentle and watchful in spirit can warm a room simply by entering it. She does not have to make announcements or grand gestures; her quiet sense of what is needed — a soothing word, a softening of conflict, a bit of order restored — becomes the very breath of the household.
This is the beauty of feminine influence: it works quietly but deeply.

✿Thought:

“A wife’s greatness lies not in thinking less of herself, but in thinking of herself less.”

✿Reflection:

This does not mean she becomes invisible or exhausted. Instead, it means her eyes are open.
She sees:

• when a child needs reassurance,

• when her husband is burdened, when the atmosphere needs peacefulness.

And she responds with simplicity and grace. Her love is active, not anxious — freely given, not forced.

✿Thought:

Quotation:
“The wife desired does not wait to be told what to do. She senses the needs of those she loves and anticipates them.”

✿Reflection:

There is something deeply feminine about anticipating rather than merely reacting.
It is not servile — it is creative.
It is the art of seeing with the heart.
The home becomes welcoming because her spirit is welcoming.
The family feels safe because her love watches.

✿Thought:

“The best influence is quiet influence. The best rule is gentle rule.”

✿Reflection:

The wife desired leads, but she leads with warmth.
Her strength is real — but soft.
She builds peace through:

• a calm tone,

• a patient look,

• a joyful willingness to serve.

The world shouts. The Christian home whispers love.

To be the wife desired does not mean to be perfect — but to be present. It means to bring our full feminine hearts into the everyday: noticing, tending, smoothing, comforting, beautifying. These quiet offerings, unseen by the world, are of great worth to God. A woman who senses what is needed and responds with love is truly the heartbeat of her home.

“No one can put up with the gloomy and disagreeable man all day long. Thus a person is bound, by a certain natural debt in decency, to get along amicably with others.” -St. Thomas Aquinas

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The saints assure us that simplicity is the virtue most likely to draw us closer to God and make us more like Him.

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Sins of the Tongue or Jealousy in Woman’s Life

by Monseigneur Landriot, Archbishop of Rheims,
Translated from the French by Helena Lyons

“This book consists of fifteen discourses (four on Sins of the Tongue, three on Envy and Jealousy, two on Rash Judgments, two on Christian Patience, and four on Grace) that were originally talks given to laywomen of his diocese in the late 19th century. At the beginning the good Archbishop says “I propose, my children, to give you some instructions on the tongue, and the faults which it causes us to commit. I shall commence today by speaking of the power and beauty of that organ, of the noble use which ought to be made of it, and of the many advantages we may derive from it.” There is precious little teaching on the topics covered in these instructions which is accessible to the average man and woman of today.”  Loreto Publications

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