This document discusses what it means to be a woman from a Catholic perspective. It begins with quotes celebrating womanhood from various figures. It then explores some of the positive aspects of being a woman, including the sacramentality of woman's being, motherhood, fruitfulness, and finding joy and purpose in God's design. The document also discusses how womanhood is about being, not doing, and finding one's identity in God rather than in stereotypes or roles. Finally, it emphasizes that womanhood is an important part of God's call on our lives and that women were created to image God as helpers in complementing and helping men.

1. BLESSED TO BE A
WOMAN
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2. I LOVE BEING A WOMAN

3. • The moment a woman comes home to herself, the moment she
knows she has become a person of influence, the artist of her life,
a sculptor of her universe, a person with rights and responsibilities
who is respected and recognized, the resurrection of the world
begins.
- Sr Joan Chittister, OSB

4. If women are not part of the
solution of problems,
solutions will not succeed.
- Bonnie Abaunza
Women hold up half the sky.
- Mao Zedong

5. WHAT IS GOOD ABOUT BEING A
WOMAN?
• 1.
• 2.
• 3.
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• 5.

6. WHAT’S GOOD ABOUT BEING A
WOMAN?
• The sacramentality of one’s being over doing as in gender
roles (outward signs of God’s grace; sacredness pointing to
God)
• Motherhood
• Fruitfulness
• Joy, purpose, enjoyment, importance in God’s design

7. • LUKE 18 Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to
show them that they should always pray and not give
up. He said: “In a certain town there was a judge who
neither feared God nor cared what people thought.
And there was a widow in that town who kept
coming to him with the plea, ‘Grant me
justice against my adversary.’
• “For some time he refused. But finally he said to
himself, ‘Even though I don’t fear God or care what
people think, yet because this widow keeps
bothering me, I will see that she gets justice, so that
she won’t eventually come and attack me!’”
• And the Lord said, “Listen to what the unjust judge
says. And will not God bring about justice for his
chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will
he keep putting them off? I tell you, he will see that
they get justice, and quickly. However, when the Son
of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?”

8. PARABLE OF THE UNJUST JUDGE
PARABLE OF THE IMPORTUNATE
(ANNOYING) WIDOW
PARABLE OF THE PERSISTENT WOMAN
Re-write the title of this parable

9. WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A
WOMAN
• Not doing all the things listed in Proverbs 31
• It’s about being not doing
• Caricature of womanhood get us into trouble
• Look to God; we are made in God’s image
• Equity not equality between men and women
• Find your identity in yourself and in
• Knowing who God is and asking how God want
us to live

10. BEING FEMALE IS IMPORTANT AND PART OF GOD’S
CALL ON OUR LIVES – COURTNEY REISSIG
• Womanhood has nothing to do with our capabilities and everything to
do with what we were created for
• Equal with man; the same but different (=equity)
• Our differences compliment one another
• Our gender points to our Creator because we are made in God’s image;
we bear that image

11. EZER = HEBREW FOR HELPER
• The way God helps his people
• Ezer also used to describe God the Holy Spirit
• Many actions are attributed to the Holy Spirit and ”not one
of them is inferior “to the Father or the Son
• We image God by wives helping husbands be all they can be
– as the Holy Spirit would
• By helping those with whom we share faith – as the Holy
Spirit would
• By complementing the masculine

13. “OUR ROLE IN LIFE IS
TO BRING THE LIGHT
OF OUR OWN SOULS
TO THE DIM PLACES
AROUND US”
– SR JOAN CHITTISTER, OSB

15. I LOVE BEING A WOMAN
I LOVE BEING A WOMAN
I LOVE BEING A WOMAN

16. THE
MAGNIFICAT

17. RESOURCES
The Accidental Feminist:
Restoring our Delight in
God’s Good Design, Courtney
Reissig, 2015 Crossway
Gloria Purvis Podcast: What
it Means to Be a Woman,
March 28, 2022, America
Media