{"id":57079,"date":"2021-03-04T09:16:07","date_gmt":"2021-03-04T14:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/?p=57079"},"modified":"2021-03-04T11:33:21","modified_gmt":"2021-03-04T16:33:21","slug":"honoring-woman-and-her-feminine-genius-celebrating-international-women-s-day-march-8-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/en\/honoring-woman-and-her-feminine-genius-celebrating-international-women-s-day-march-8-2021","title":{"rendered":"Honoring Woman and her feminine genius: celebrating International Women\u2019s Day, March 8, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As the last of God\u2019s creations, she was also, according to Jewish tradition, the most beautiful and the one endowed with the greatest understanding. Woman was God\u2019s \u201cmasterpiece,\u201d said President Gordon B. Hinckley, and \u201cthe crowning of His glorious work.\u201d Pope Francis insisted that \u201cshe cannot be understood like all the other beings: she is something different,\u201d even \u201cthe great gift of God\u201d to \u201cbring harmony to creation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFeminine genius\u201d is what Pope John Paul II called this unique quality as he expressed gratitude to all women on the eve of the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995. \u201cThank you, women who are mothers! <\/em>You have sheltered human beings within yourselves in a unique experience of joy and travail. This experience makes you become God’s own smile upon the newborn child, the one who guides your child’s first steps, who helps it to grow, and who is the anchor as the child makes its way along the journey of life. Thank you, women who are wives! <\/em>You irrevocably join your future to that of your husbands, in a relationship of mutual giving, at the service of love and life. Thank you, women who are daughters <\/em>and women who are sisters! <\/em>Into the heart of the family, and then of all society, you bring the richness of your sensitivity, your intuitiveness, your generosity and fidelity.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two decades later when Archbishop Bernardito Auza addressed the UN Commission on the Status of Women in New York, he elaborated. \u201cJohn Paul II referred to this special brilliance of women in caring for the intrinsic dignity of everyone and for nurturing others\u2019 gifts as the \u2018feminine genius.\u2019 Today we are here to ponder that feminine genius, to celebrate it, to thank God for it, and to thank and praise women for it, especially our mothers and all those women who with it have nurtured us, raised us, educated us, loved us and\u2026 disciplined us!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Clearly, this \u201cfeminine genius\u201d to nurture and love is not limited to being a biological mother. \u201cAre we not all mothers?\u201d asked Sheri Dew. \u201cAll around us are those who need to be loved and led\u2026 As daughters of Eve, we are all mothers and we have always been mothers.\u201d And on this unique genius of women for mothering, whether biologically or behaviorally, depends civilization itself. \u201cMothers play a critical role in the family,\u201d stated Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon. \u201cThe mother-child relationship is vital for the healthy development of children\u2026. We face multiple challenges in our changing world, but one factor remains constant: the timeless importance of mothers and their invaluable contribution to raising the next generation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Certainly it is no exaggeration to say, as did Shelly Locke, \u201cMothers are the most powerful influence for good on the earth today. Within their hands lies the very future of the world!\u201d In demonstration thereof, Shelly, a specialist in mother-child attachment, has produced a powerful film entitled The Power of Mothers: Their Influence on the World<\/a>. Featured in IOF\u2019s Worldwide Motherhood Initiative<\/a>, the film is available for free online viewing and includes interviews with such notables as Janice Crouse, Christine Vollmer, and Julie Beck in a compelling witness to the truth of its title.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMighty is the power of mothers!\u201d So said George Eliot, and the failure of our world to acknowledge it does not diminish its reality. \u201cWhile history books sing the victories of valiant emperors and warriors,\u201d noted Archbishop Auza, \u201call of civilization\u2026 owes an unpayable debt of gratitude to the less chronicled or even unknown contributions of women that have shaped civilizations, like the silent but constant flow of deep waters that shape rivers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No wonder Pope Francis warned that if \u201cexploiting people is a crime harmful to humanity,\u201d then \u201cexploiting a woman is all the more so\u201d because \u201cit is destroying the harmony that God wanted to give the world.\u201d In celebration of International Women\u2019s Day, IOF honors the crown jewel of God\u2019s creation and her feminine genius, and urges that she be universally accorded the respect, protection, and care she deserves. Only thus can harmony be restored to the world God created.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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