WONDERFUL WOMAN

Carlo Carretto (1910-1988) writer, priest, and member of the Little Brothers of the Gospel, wrote:

“I observe that women are better than I am.
Along the path to God, which is the one thing I care about, I always feel woman is a step or two ahead of me.
In humility humbler, in patience stronger, in charity more genuine.
I am not enviuos by nature. But it is easy to see that God looks predilection on woman; more often than not, he says to me; ‘Look and learn.’
I would not want you to think I am trying to flatter women, or worse, that I am sentimentizing over them.
I believe I am bearing witness to the truth and, more, to the personal virtue of every woman.
On the path to God, woman has special help.
Not for nothing are women more naturally religious. And this is not because they are weak.
It is because they are better made.
It is because God, when thinking about the creation, thought of it as being feminine.
How dear to God must be woman’s ‘abononment’ in love and in those things greater than she is.
What predilection he must have for her silence, open to the One who comes.
Not for nothing is Mary of Nazereth the greatest of all women and men, and the example for all.”

I think a celibate priest only knows what he said he knew. I’m not sure he really knows the other half of what a Wonderful Woman might be. I think I do. I’ve been married for a while and I know how ‘two become one flesh’ and it’s the greatest secret there is for a man and woman. Much of what he says is certainly true, but here is wisdom: Men are not tough enough or smart enough to be women.

“But from the beginning of creation he made them male and female.  For this reason a man will leave his father and mother, and the two will become one flesh. So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.” Jesus