God loves you . + "Not another 'blog' here!" - bear with me? + I will call it ‘femality’, and one of its gracious points is that it is not an ‘-ism’. Check my thoughts, my friends. What I mean here is that leg-up ladies seem to so well have over us men. It is not as on a pedestal, though men might think to put ‘Mom’, ‘Dear’, ‘Daughter’, etc., there mistakenly. Part of our male mistakenness is that the ladies don’t need us to put them anywhere. Ladies seem to have a serene steadiness about themselves that we should look to possess within our own male selves. Of course, unfortunately, as so many ladies have tried to ‘look like the guys’ in a false feminism that denies their naturally graced ‘femality’ they give up a lot of that gracious constancy. Still, I don’t consider it odd that the ladies can reclaim their seeming legacy of ‘femality’ if they but choose. Without patient persistence, men can only work to have touches of it, as if deciding late in male life to learn to use facial cosmetics. We guys just ain’t the ladies – just laddies. 'Femality’ is more like a component of a woman’s lifeblood; and, no matter in cloister or among her children. The lady just naturally seems to take her life as if veritably moving about on her knees – I mean they practice 'femality', living naturally prayerfully. We men spend too much time ‘bouncing off of each other’; really, is there much difference between the pro football players on the screen and the bunching-up of males potato-ing the couch, chomping and slurping in front of the set? More or less, just fast-moving herds being observed by indolent herds. Men can have it in the regimen of a monastery, where "eight for prayer, eight for work and eight for sleep" give a serene pace to life that sort of ‘femalates’ the course of life. Then again, a mother-lady within her 'femality' may give "twenty (stolen) minutes for prayer, eighteen hours for (prayerful) work and maybe-six for sleep" and achieve similar results. Ladies seem to take even diaper changing as contemplation of God in life while the male just wishes rubber gloves were thicker. ‘EeYewww, Baby!’ I think that when guardian angels compare notes, the ones with the ladies are considered the lucky ones. It is not that ladies may sin less, but so quickly adapt to graces to make up for things. Men – ‘stiff-necked people’; the ladies (together in 'femality', of course) took their kids to one side to play and pray – the men made some dumb golden calf. What would cause ‘femality’? I don’t know – I’m not a lady. I would think that it at least partially has something to do with that communal way ladies have of being intimate with each other. For example, I used to help my late wife give Tupperware parties. (Yeah, think the Incredible Hulk - not green and mufti intact - in housewares.) At the gatherings, not only were the ladies as if at a special ‘femality’ gathering, but out of their refined communal ways, they more bought Tupperware than I could sell it. I also felt like I was intruding on some strange worshipful assemblage; ‘hey, wanna see my golden calf?’ Where this ‘femality’ really comes out is in God’s revelation: Wisdom is a lady. Leg-up, guys! I think about ‘sophistication’, now, in how it can seem to come out of the sophist fools who gave Socrates a hard time. (ALL men!) Not only was the sophist some clown who thought that ‘quick-and-dirty’ thinking was wisdom – he bore off his ‘sophistication’ with a very untoward haughtiness. Can you say ‘dead-giveaway’? (Socratic stand-up: ‘That ain’t no lady – that’s a sophist’). Now, I know real sophistication – I lived with it for over fourteen years. My wife increasingly seemed to be ‘on her knees’ across her days. Real sophistication is very, truly simple. Think of the Ox in Tom of Aquino locked up with his books, five secretaries, some draft reviews from Albertus Magnus and a Prayer Before the Crucifix; that’s what it took for a man. Think of the very essential ‘odor’ of the Little Flower; she merely, simply, was scrubbing the floor (ON HER KNEES for hours) in front of the Crucifix. Wisdom is simple – but, it is not quickly and easily at hand. (It's on knees, at that.) And, real sophistication just drips with Wisdom because it is growth in Wisdom that yields real sophistication. See – simple! Of practical regard – ‘femality’ – simple, quite childlike prayerfulness - it’s easier to crawl on Home, on one’s knees, with it. Ancient Sophia is like Mary – our dear Queen Mother the prototype of the prototype. Mary could be found loading up on Wisdom – in God’s answers to her prayers as she 'femalatedly' contemplated Him on her knees. For contrasting example, consider the Annunciation. Gabriel comes to some bloke named Uriah and offers the ultimate gift of the Messiah. (Need more scenery? Okay – umm – Uriah’s having grilled veggies in pita staring out the window at kids playing a soccer-like game. You think we changed much?) You can see it’s all wrong when you realize (redundantly) the guy is a MALE. His thoughts? ‘Wow! Who’s the lucky lady? (Whooooo-hooo!)’ Mary noted ‘I am a virgin’ – HE’s more likely to wonder if there’ll be tryouts and auditions. ‘HEY! Do I get to make a golden calf?’ Gabriel: “Umm – just fuggedaboutit!” It took a lady, Mary – fully ‘femalated’ of course, the picture of Wisdom – on her knees. Could be she was even just looking up and taking a breath from scrubbing the floor. And, wasn’t her Son, God of very God, at His best humbly praying to His Father? See – a guy can do it. Okay – okay – the guy is Jesus Christ, but you can see what I mean. So, guys, listen up. ‘Femality’ for any of us can be heard in the voice calling to the Samuel (NOTE: CHILD, not yet a man) in each of us. That response, again: “Here I am, Lord. Speak, for Thy servant hears.” (Refer to 1Samuel, chapter 3; also, see Matthew 18:3, or Mark 10:14-15, Luke 9:47-48, Luke 18:16-17; and John 13:33, which more or less urges 'Be ye the child'.) Get on your most childlike knees, guys; try not to bounce off each other; and, plan to obey, not just listen. Report in to His voice. He will s-l-o-w-l-y but surely get you to Wisdom, reigning right next to Truth. Don’t be surprised if they’re both imaged as ladies. Remember, I love you, too . In the Suffering of Christ, and in His hope of His Resurrection, Pristinus Sapienter (wljewell @catholicexchange.com or ... yahoo.com)

God loves you . Well . . . more . . . uh . . . something, anyway. It is more that God seems to have His quiet voice heard because I sit in solitude - quiet and near motionless - more nearly in contemplation even when not attempting to contemplate. It does seem though, that at Corinthians 7, Saint Paul is noting that when the two become one, he infers that it is the world that troubles them by ignoring the unity. (In-laws can be ever in-laws . . . SIGH!) Their marriage need not have its own troubles. While Saint Paul recommends a celibate chastity, he is far more worried about the chastity end of it. He is not one, I agree, to give marriage high accolades. Yet, Christ Himself honored marital unity with His Sacrament of Matrimony; indeed, the first Sacrament He instituted. It isn't recorded that He complained at Cana that the two should not have married with so many winos in the families. Besides, the record does show that the Apostles arrived, and immediately afterward - the wine failed. I would hope those holy vagabonds left a nice gift. Remember, I love you, too . In the Suffering of Christ, and in His hope of His Resurrection, Pristinus Sapienter (wljewell @catholicexchange.com or ... yahoo.com)

Yana,

Single life has it's ups and downs and is hard too.  When you think of the trash that is in the world who can escape it?  Parties, drinking bouts, alternate lifestyle(s), drugs, tv games, and so on, endless of the things that can fill a soul with corruption.  
If you think about it, I think a true Christian Marriage dedicated to Christ is much better than today's single life.  Love.  Love. Love. Love is the best thing.

John 2:1 And the third day, there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee: and the mother of Jesus was there.
Et die tertio nuptiae factae sunt in Cana Galilaeae et erat mater Iesu ibi

2:2. And Jesus also was invited, and his disciples, to the marriage.
Vocatus est autem ibi et Iesus et discipuli eius ad nuptias

2:3. And the wine failing, the mother of Jesus saith to him: They have no wine.
Et deficiente vino dicit mater Iesu ad eum vinum non habent

Peace

No one is implying that the Apostles ran the wine dry. In fact they were just there as guests who were glad to be by their Master.

I wrote True christian marriage not worldly ideals and thoughts of marriage.  The world does not know what true marriage is for the many.  They are devoid of truth.

Peace

Re: BHokuto's post:

"No one is implying that the Apostles ran the wine dry."

I thought Warren did? ???

Regards,

Old Sigma (Cradle Catholic [Latin rite] & generally inveterate amateur)

It was a joke, people.  Have a glass of wine and lighten up.