On the Dignity and Vocation of Women by Pope John Paul II

In fact, Maleski writes of the vastly different women in the Old Testament who use vastly different methods of “further God’s self-revelation to the world, in their own right” (emphasis hers). In fact, as every woman is unique, every woman’s way of living her vocation is unique.

This task doesn’t look the same for every woman. It falls to us to ensure that our business practices honor the dignity of the human person, to ensure that people are treated with the respect they are due as children of God, and to reflect God’s love to everyone we see.

Working, as most of us do, in a secular environment, it falls to us to protect God’s likeness in our colleagues, our employees, our partners, and our customers. John Paul II.” She continues, “John Paul II believed that women were not just persons who stood watch over the invisible God but that they were soldiers who stood at the very passage between God and His likeness in mankind.”Īs Catholic women in business, we have the unique opportunity to be sentinels of the invisible in the workplace. “John Paul II felt that women had the special task of standing sentinel for God and the likeness of Himself that He infused in every human person,” writes Melissa Maleski in her new book “The Supreme Vocation of Women According to St. To you, women, falls the task of being sentinels of the Invisible! Appearing here, Mary entrusted her message to a young girl, as if to emphasize the special mission of women in our own time, tempted as it is by materialism and secularism: to be in today’s society a witness of those essential values which are seen only with the eyes of the heart. In fact, he said:įrom this grotto I issue a special call to women. John Paul visited Lourdes in 2004 and shared again his belief that Mary is a model for all of us, including for women.

In one of his last public appearances, the 150th anniversary of Mary’s visit to St. John Paul left us was his teaching on women. John Paul the Great.įrom his “Letter to Women” to his “On the Dignity of Woman” to his great and famous devotion to Our Lady, one of the many wonderful legacies St. Perhaps no Catholic leader, at least in recent history, exemplified this respect for women more than a man - Pope John Paul II, also now often known as St. For an Institution that is often accused of being anti-woman, the Catholic Church has a lot to say about the dignity and beauty of women.

On the Dignity and Vocation of Women by Pope John Paul II