Honoring Some Real Women for International Women's Day 2009

Today is International Women's Day. Radical feminists will have hijacked it for their own political purposes. Rather than honoring true feminists like Susan B. Anthony they will use it to promote the "culture of death". So here are some women who truly deserve being honored because they are living out their vocation as God would have them.

1st of all there is Mother Angelica PCPA, foundress of Eternal Word Television Network . She has done so much to spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ beyond what I can say here.

Mother is at Our Lady of the Angels Monastery at Hanceville, AL. The Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration at the Monastery are another group of women who are truly fulfilling their call by God to be a countersign to our culture.

There are many other religious orders who are doing the same thing. There are the Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration sent from Hanceville to start Our Lady of Solitude Monastery in Black Canyon City, AZ. Another group of Poor Clares can be found at Saint Joseph Adoration Monastery in Portsmouth, OH. The Poor Clares Colettine are found at Monastery of the Poor Clares (Kokomo), IN. Then there are the Benedictines at Our Lady of the Annunciation Monastery of Clear Creek, OK. These are just a few of the women who have heroicly sacrificed in order to spend their time in prayer for the Church.

There are several orders who are serving in other ways. The Dominican Sister of St. Cecilia (Nashville Dominicans) serve to teach our youth as do the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist in Ann Arbor, MI.

The The Intercessors of the Lamb in Omaha do just that, spend their time in prayer as well as training others for the powerful ministry of intercession. The Sisters of Life spend their time in prayer as well as active Pro-Life ministry. I think they are the only order to be consecrated under a special, fourth vow to protect and enhance the sacredness of human life. The Religious Sisters of Mercy of Alma, MI are dedicated to the spiritual & corporal works of Mercy. (Note: They began in 1973 in response to the renewal called for by Vatican II & show what is the true Spirit of Vatican II, not this false one that so many other orders have used as a justification to abandon the faith.)

The Servants of God's Love serve the Church in a variety of ways. The Apostles of the Interior Life are a group of consecrated women dedicate themselves to evangelization and to offering a service of spiritual assistance for the Interior formation of all who seek to know and love Jesus Christ.

Then there are the lay women like Judie Brown of American Life League; Dr. Theresa Burke, founder of Rachel's Vineyard; Janet Morana, P.D., Executive Director, Priests for Life &Co-Founder, Silent No More Awareness Campaign; Dr. Alveda C. King; Phyllis Schlafly, founder of The Eagle Forum. I could go on & on.

Then there many holy women who have gone to their heavenly reward. Here are just a few of the multitude of women the Catholic Church honors as saints:

Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha

St. Frances Xavier Cabrini

St. Giuseppina Bahkita

St. Rafkha Shabaq al Rayes

St. Gianna Beretta Molla

St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross

(Edith Stein)

St. Therese of Lisieux

St. Chiara (Clare) of Assisi

St. Catherine of Siena

St. Teresa of Avila

Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta

& of course, the greatest woman of all time:

Blessed Virgin Mary

the Θεοτόκης (Theotokis)

(image: Our Lady of Guadelupe)