"Thank you, every woman, for the
simple fact of being a woman! Through the insight which is so much a part of
your womanhood you enrich the world's understanding and help to make human
relations more honest and authentic...
Necessary emphasis should be placed on the 'genius of women,' not only by considering great and famous women of the past or present, but also those ordinary women who reveal the gift of their womanhood by placing themselves at the service of others in their everyday lives. For in giving themselves to others each day women fulfill their deepest vocation. Perhaps more than men, women acknowledge the person, because they see persons with their hearts.
They see them independently of various ideological
or political systems. They see others in their greatness and limitations; they
try to go out to them and help them.
In this way the basic plan of the Creator
takes flesh in the history of humanity and there is constantly revealed, in the
variety of vocations, that beauty-not merely physical, but above all
spiritual-which God bestowed from the very beginning on all, and in a
particular way on women."
- Blessed John Paul II, Letter to Women
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