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Manual for Women is for women who seek to grow closer to Christ and his Blessed Mother, for women who seek to discover or rediscover what it means to be a woman after God's own heart. In Part I, noted Catholic author Danielle Bean, using examples from Scripture, the lives of the saints, and modern life, reminds women of today to embrace and cultivate their distinctive gifts: Receptivity, or an openness and welcoming spirit toward others. Sensitivity, or an ability to see and understand the needs and feelings of others. Compassion, or an instinct to suffer with and alleviate the suffering of others. Beauty, or the recognition that the female body is a reflection of her great capacity for nurturing, whether she ever becomes a mother physically or not. Generosity, or an extraordinary capacity for self-giving love. In Part II, readers will be nourished by the depth and richness of the Catholic tradition's teaching on women. Church documents, wisdom of the saints, relevant passages from Scripture, wisdom from today's Catholic women, prayers, and hymns will inspire, delight, and edify women, young and old, single and married, consecrated to God in the religious life or a member of the laity. Now, perhaps more than ever, women need to be women. But what it means to be a woman has been so distorted by the various ideologies that the modern world imposes. Manual for Women serves as a reminder to women that authentic femininity (and, yes, authentic feminism) springs from an embrace, rather than a spurning, of the great and unique gifts God has bestowed on them, whether they be married or single, in religious life or a laywomen, a homemaker or a women who works outside the home, or, as so many women in today's hectic world are, some combination thereof!

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Publié par	TAN Books
Date de parution	01 juillet 2019
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781505113020
Langue	English

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Manual for Women

Danielle Bean
TAN BOOKS
Charlotte, North Carolina
Part One Introductory Essay © 2019 Danielle Bean
Part Two Compilation © 2019 TAN Books, PO Box 410487, Charlotte, NC 28241
All rights reserved. With the exception of short excerpts used in critical review, no part of this work may be reproduced, transmitted, or stored in any form whatsoever without the prior written permission of the publisher.
Excerpts from the English translation of the Catechism of the Catholic Church for use in the United States of America copyright © 1994, United States Catholic Conference, Inc.—Libreria Editrice Vaticana. Used with permission.
All excerpts from papal homilies, messages, and encyclicals copyright © Libreria Editrice Vaticana. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
Unless otherwise noted or in text quoted from other sources, Scripture quotations are from the Revised Standard Version of the Bible—Second Catholic Edition (Ignatius Edition), copyright © 2006 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Except where otherwise acknowledged, prayers and other texts have been taken from a variety of print and online sources and are believed to be in the public domain.
ISBN: 978-1-5051-1301-3
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TAN Books Charlotte, North Carolina www.TANBooks.com 2019
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To the perfect example of feminine genius lived out with perfection, my mother and yours, the Blessed Virgin Mary. Thank you for praying me through my stumbling journey toward home.
The woman’s soul is fashioned as a shelter in which other souls may unfold.
S T . E DITH S TEIN
CONTENTS
How to Use This Manual
Part One: Being the Woman God Made You to Be
Introduction
  1. Feminine Gift of Receptivity
  2. Feminine Gift of Sensitivity
  3. Feminine Gift of Compassion
  4. Feminine Gift of Beauty
  5. Feminine Gift of Generosity
  6. Getting Practical
Part Two: Wisdom and Prayers for Women
  7. Wisdom of the Church
From the Catechism
From the Compendium of the Catechism
Papal Documents and Teaching on Women
Pastoral Guidance
  8. Scriptures for Women
A Variety of Verses
Verses of Receptivity
Verses of Sensitivity
Verses of Compassion
Verses of Generosity
Verses of Beauty
Verses of Children
Verses About Worry
  9. The Saints and Other Exemplars
Lives of the Saints
Wisdom of the Saints
Wisdom From Today’s Catholic Women
10. Prayers
Prayers for Families
Prayers of Gratitude
How to Make a Novena
Marian Prayers
Other Prayers
11. Hymns and Poems
Poems
Hymns
HOW TO USE THIS MANUAL
e at TAN Books are honored to present Catholic women with this next installment in our Manual Series, the Manual for Women by Danielle Bean. As with our other manuals—those for Spiritual Warfare, Eucharistic Adoration, Men, Conquering Deadly Sin, and Marian Devotion—this book is sure to become a treasured and much-leafed through volume for those who read it.
But that begs the question: how to read it? The first answer is, of course, anyway you want. And anywhere you want: at home, in the adoration chapel, at the YMCA or playground while the kids play, in the chapel of your convent, in bed, on the couch, at work (okay, maybe not at work unless you work for a Catholic publisher). But, regardless of where or when you read it, we would urge you to begin with Danielle’s wonderful opening essay. She is many things: wife, mother, writer, editor, television personality, brand manager at CatholicMom.com , and more. But most fundamentally, at the very core of her being, Danielle is a devoted Catholic woman, one who knows the faith and lives it. She is conversant both with the Church’s grand tradition and the best thinking and writing the Church offers her daughters today. She knows your triumphs, your failures, your joys, your sorrows. She is, in short, one of you.
As we don’t want to keep you from the riches contained within any longer, let us close with the following advice which just might be the way you choose to delve into your Manual for Women . Enjoy!
Take this Manual for Women in one hand and a cup of coffee in the other … and get ready to pray, laugh, and receive the down-to-earth wisdom Danielle Bean has to offer in this book. Danielle has a delightful way of teaching us the beauty of the faith, while relating it to what’s actually going on in our crazy-busy lives as women. You will find refreshment, hope, healing, and encouragement in the pages that follow!
J ACKIE F RANCOIS A NGEL , SPEAKER , SONGWRITER , AND AUTHOR OF F OREVER : A C ATHOLIC D EVOTIONAL FOR Y OUR M ARRIAGE .
May this manual help you, dear reader, on your path to heaven.
PART ONE
Being the Woman God Made You to Be
INTRODUCTION
eaven better be real good,” a struggling friend once complained to me over the phone as a stomach virus raged through her busy household. “Not just a bunch of people standing around talking to each other, but real good. Do you know what I mean?”
For sure I did.
Life is a messy thing. Sometimes, in the midst of pain and sacrifice, all we want is some tangible assurance that our efforts will be rewarded. As we struggle through piles of bills and car repairs, rebellious teenagers and cranky bosses, and all manner of foul weather and human weakness, we would just like a little dose of heavenly perfection now and then. Is that too much to ask?
There were no stomach viruses in the Garden of Eden. There were no rashes, no bug bites, no burnt toast, no anxiety, no depression, no exhaustion, no unpleasant work, and no sin. There were none of the evils and annoyances, big and small, that we post-fall humans find ourselves contending with every day.
Can you even imagine such a place? Most of us can’t, because the world we are living in feels impossibly far away from paradise.
Do ever think about original sin and get just a little bit annoyed at Eve? I mean, Eve had it made. There she was in her very own paradise, freshly created, beautiful, and intelligent. Her husband adored her, she knew no hunger or weakness, she had the perfect body, and she was surrounded by perfection and beauty in a natural world God had made just for her and her beloved man.
Why did she have to go and mess it all up?
In fairness to Eve, though, we must also ask why we continue to mess it all up. It is an inevitable part of the human experience to find out just how messed up the world is, sometimes in deeply personal and painful ways. We see it in war, broken families, addiction, violence, and abuse. But we see it in subtler ways too—sometimes in our own pride or jealousy, or our own temptation toward anger, lust, or greed.
What We Are Made For
A nd yet those of us who believe not only in original sin but also in the redemptive power of God want to know and do God’s will in our lives. We want to fix the ways in which we and others are warped, wounded, and broken by sin. We want to be what God made us to be and calls us to be, despite our fallen nature. We want to take seriously the mission God calls us to.
But what might that be?
Ultimately, seeking to know who we are and what we are made for as women brings us back to the Garden of Eden. To know God’s plan for human beings, and in particular God’s plan for us as women, we must look to Eve, the first woman, and find out what we can learn from her story.
In the familiar story we read in the Old Testament book of Genesis, we first meet Eve, in all her perfection, when God creates her from one of Adam’s ribs. When Adam sees Eve for the first time, he is overcome by her beauty and perfection.
“‘This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.’ Therefore a man leaves his father and his mother and cleaves to his wife, and they become one flesh” (Gn 2:23–24).
Adam’s words of joy highlight the complementarity and connection between man and woman as God planned it and as it existed, in perfection, in our natural state. Woman is made for man; man is made for woman. The two become one. This beautiful description of the unity that God intends between the sexes is a popular reading at weddings. We like to be reminded that we were made good, we were made perfect, and we were made for one another. We like to remember God’s original plan.
But let’s read on. Because then sin creeps in—a less popular wedding reading, perhaps, but a real part of the story nonetheless. A serpent somehow enters the paradise Adam and Eve share, and he singles out Eve for temptation. We all know that God gave Adam and Eve all the fruit of the garden for eating except for the fruit of one tree, which he warned them not to eat from, lest they die.
Taking and Trusting
I t is telling that the serpent does not tempt Eve by pointing out how delicious the fruit looks on the forbidden tree. Eve succumbs to a temptation that has little to do with the fruit itself. Instead, the serpent tempts her by suggesting that God is not to be trusted.
“The woman said to the serpent, ‘We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden; but God said, “You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.”’ But the serpent said to the woman, ‘You will not die. For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil’” (Gn 3:2–5).
You will not die.
The Father of Lies, in the form of a serpent, speaks the first of his lies to the first of humans. He paints a warped picture of a selfish God who is not to be trusted, a God who keeps good things only for himself.
Eve believes the lies. She believes, even if only for a moment, that