Sentences with phrase «holy women»

From such holy women as Thérèse of Lisieux, Faustina of Poland, Edith Stein, Mother Teresa of Calcutta and Mary of Nazareth, I reaped comfort and guidance, prodding and inspiration.

Not only do the lives offer the unexpected, saints who do not always conform to stock virtues or conventional patterns, they also put a new figure on the stage, the holy woman.

What becomes apparent at once in reading the lives of holy women is that they do not cultivate «feminine» virtues.

The Pakistani cleric will answer to this in due time — if there is one thing he does not realize, it is that you can not frighten or threaten a holy woman with heaven.

Catherine Doherty was a great woman, a holy woman.

While our Bishops have created scandal after scandal in recent decades, these holy women have provided a core of integrity for our wounded Church.

He then reframes their behavior by removing it from the realm of necessity and giving it a dignity, either that of identification with Christ or of identification with the «holy women» of Jewish antiquity.»

In My Sisters the Saints: A Spiritual Memoir, Catholic journalist Colleen Carroll Campbell interweaves her own life story with the stories of six holy women: Teresa of Avila, Thérèse of Lisieux, Faustina Kowalska, Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein), Teresa of Calcutta (Mother Teresa), and the Blessed Mother.

This is how the holy women of old made themselves beautiful.

Her heroine, though, is no warrior, but a 17 - year - old girl who voluntarily retreats from society to become a holy woman, or Anchoress.