“The emancipation of womanhood began with Christianity and it ends with Christianity. It had the beginning one night nineteen hundred years ago when there came to a woman named Mary a vision and a message from heaven.She saw the rifted clouds of glory and the hidden battlements of heaven; she heard an angelic annunciation of the almost incredible news that she of all women on earth...of all the Marys in history...was to be the only one who should ever wear entwined the red rose of maternity and the white rose of virginity.
When Jesus grew up and began to teach the way of life, He ushered woman into a new place in human relations. He accorded her a new dignity and crowned her with a new glory, so that wherever the Christian evangel has gone for nineteen centuries, the daughters of Mary have been respected, revered, remembered and loved, for men have recognized that womanhood is a sacred and noble thing.”
...Dr. Peter Marshall
Presbyterian Minister
Chaplain of the U.S. Senate 1948
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“I have always envied Catholics for their faith in that sweet sacred Virgin Mother who stands between them and the Deity, intercepting something of His awful splendor, but permitting love to stream upon the worshipper more intelligibly to the human comprehension through the medium of a woman’s tenderness.”
.....Nathaniel Hawthorne
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“Son, behold your mother”.
Through the prism of these words a man was entrusted to the Mother of God as her son. We all feel entrusted to Mary in that singular man. We therefore live with consiousness of this trust in the Mother of God, not only each on his own but also as a great community.
And so this singular motherhood of Mary’s, transmitted one time to the Evangelist and Apostle John, then extended to so many people and to entire nations above all, gives us a particular sense of identity (with the Son).”
...Pope John Paul II
“I have always envied Catholics for their faith in that sweet sacred Virgin Mother who stands between them and the Deity, intercepting something of His awful splendor, but permitting love to stream upon the worshipper more intelligibly to the human comprehension through the medium of a woman’s tenderness.”
.....Nathaniel Hawthorne
ROSE HAWTHORNE, the second daughter of Nathaniel and Sophia Hawthorne, converted to Roman Catholicism in 1891 and founded a religious order to care for victims of cancer.