What is wisdom for women?
Now, dear girls, we must take a further step. You cannot be content with a general concept of wisdom; you must be concerned with what precisely it is for a woman to be wise. To achieve this purpose “you must remember that Grace is grafted onto nature. The supernatural is traced from Creation. Sanctity is not something exotic, but native. You must remember that the triumph of grace supposes the balance of nature. Far from taking you off your natural axis, sanctity sets you back on it. And if sanctity is first fidelity to a state, to a duty of state, as the catechism says, it demands first of all, that the respect of the will of the Creator be written in the heart of nature. Since this sanctity does not consist in making oneself different from how God has made us, but in realizing fully, purely, what God wants us to be, we cannot but entreat you to be, to remain, courageously, purely, Christianly women, if you have the ambition of becoming saints.” (R.F. Doncoeur) Saint Thomas Aquinas, t
