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The Christian woman, such as Mary, receives the divine gift
of spiritual fertility in order to bring back rebellious children to the
heart of the Father, or to beget in flesh those who will honor the earth or
populate Heaven; it is thus that Woman performs her Ministry: in other words
she continues to offer throughout time the flesh of Jesus the Savior
("what you have done to the least of these YOU HAVE DONE TO ME"), whilst
male Priests can only offer It veiled in the Sacraments, especially in the
consecrated Bread and Wine and in the forgiveness of sins.
The whole Church, and Italy in particular, boasts a large
number of these excellent women.
Umbria offers her numerous heroines, scattered over the centuries, whose
memories are jealously guarded by the Umbrian people, who recognize the
extent to which their testimony of sanctity was marked by the sensibility of
their age and acknowledge the spiritual nourishment that, with extreme
truth, they are able to offer the huge number of today’s women who have been
called by Christ the Savior to the summit of total love. Today’s Umbrian
believers are proud of having them as consecrated daughters, sisters, wives
and friends.
Courtesy of Umbria 2000
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