Dereliction of Duty vs. True Heroes
Satan Still Goes After the Woman
By Concerned Woman
Summary: Satan & Women, Dereliction of Duty vs. True Heroes
Keywords: Satan | Woman | Women | Mothers | Catholic Mothers |
Motherhood | Wife | Fathers | Catholic Fathers | Fatherhood |
Husband | Children | Families | Catholic Families | Parents |
Parenting | Full-Time Parenting | Part-Time Parenting | Absent
Wives | Absent Mothers | Duties | Responsibilities | Public
Schools | Education | Homeschooling | Homemaking | Careers | Jobs
| Provider | Career Women | Career Planning | Femininity |
Nurturing | Heroes | Fulfillment | Happiness | Ambition | Wealth |
Divorce | Contraception | Abortion | Limited Family Size |
Communism | Deception | Feminists | Feminism | Fatima | Roles | Traditional Roles | Purpose in Life |
I ask you, if
someone elected to be the full-time governor of the
state of Georgia spent more than half of their time
working elsewhere, for example on behalf of and
beholden to the state of Oregon, would the neglected
Georgians likely consider this governor a "hero" or
derelict in their duty? (I use Georgia and Oregon as
examples, but any states could be used to make my
points.)
And why would
the governor be considered derelict in their duty?
Isn't it because they are...?
1. Not doing what they are supposed to be doing
(i.e. what they were chosen to do on behalf of
Georgians)
2. Leaving Georgians with a part-time governor, and
with no one having the real ability to take their
place
3. Abandoning their true responsibilities to the
Georgians
4. Frequently absent, and therefore less available
to the Georgians
5. Distracted from their duty to the Georgians and
less able to be attentive to the Georgians
Would it change
anything if the work done for the state of Oregon
was glamorous? Would it matter if the work done on
behalf of Oregon was charitable towards the
Oregonians? Of course it would not change anything
for Georgians. The governor would not be doing his
constituents any favors by devoting so much of his
time to another state. He would not be a "hero" to
the Georgians. In fact, the Georgians would be
shortchanged by such a governor, and they should
demand more. Undoubtedly, the governor's actions
would ultimately have a detrimental affect on
Georgians, even if that was not the governor's
intention.
In the same
vain, why is it that many people today consider
career-women who intentionally abandon their
families for hours at a time as "heroes"? Don't such
women do the very thing the governor did in the
above example? Might such women, sadly but more
justly, be called absent or part-time wives &
mothers? Can anyone deny that days are capped at 24
hours? Add eight hours at a job, plus lunch time,
plus travel time, plus time to prepare for work,
plus time for a healthy amount of sleep, and very
little time (perhaps as little as 20% of the day)
may be left during the week for the career woman's
husband or children. Yet her husband and children
should be her primary focus!
I therefore
ask:
How can
abandoning your God-given role towards your family
for the majority of each workday be heroic?
Is it really
heroic for children to have a part-time mother?
Is it heroic to
push responsibility for your children onto others,
especially strangers (particularly when children are
left in the care of the godless state - e.g. public
schools)? Don't you realize no one can truly replace
you as their mother?
How is it
heroic to prioritize work over family? (Be honest,
if little Betty and Johnny regularly require "too
much" attention from you during the day they will
not get it while you are at work because you would
lose your job.)
Is it heroic to
abandon your true responsibilities for the bulk of
each workday?
How is it
heroic to be frequently absent from the home and
less available to your children or husband?
Is it heroic to
be distracted from your husband and children and
less attentive to them?
How is it
heroic to take away a man's incentive to be the
provider for his family (as Scripture says men are
supposed to be)?
Is it heroic to
drive up prices of homes and food by having women in
the workforce?
How is it
heroic to be less rested and alert towards your
family during the week due to hours spent at a job?
Fellow women,
your time and attention rightly belongs foremost to
your family. The time and attention redirected away
from them can NEVER be gained back, no matter what
you do. Your family must always be #1, not #2 or #3.
Providing for your family is your husband's job, not
yours (excepting, of course what should be unusual
situations that are no fault of the wife). Don't
sacrifice everything important for some supposed
"financial gain". The old expression is very true:
charity begins at home. Children and homemaking are
critically important full-time jobs for the
dedicated Catholic wife & mother. Making them
part-time pursuits - saddling your flesh & blood
with an absent mother and your husband with a less
available wife - can't help but bring negative
consequences.
I have written
about this topic before and I can virtually hear
many women arguing that they "have to work", they
"have no choice." But this is generally dishonest.
Instead, pick a suitable, good Catholic man who is
willing & able to provide for a family and get
married before having children (to do otherwise is a
sin). Cut costs. Act responsibly. Have insurance for
unforeseen events. Live economically.
Just because
you may not like to hear what I have to say, doesn't
mean it's not true. Women today are confused or
misled because society pushes the false feminist
narrative that it is backwards or unfulfilling to be
a full-time wife and mother. Nothing could be more
untrue! Having a career might bring you some
fleeting financial reward now, but oh the cost!
Being a full-time wife and mother may not be easy,
but the rewards are great, both now and eternally in
heaven.
If you are a
married Catholic woman and God has given you the
gift of fertility, then you are supposed to do the
important work of peopling heaven! What could be
more glorious! Full-time wife & mothering is:
* Rewarding
* Needed
* God pleasing
* Fulfilling
It promotes
modesty, femininity and nurturing behavior. It is
natural. It allows you to have complete control over
your children's education (homeschooling).
It allows you to always be there for them and your
husband. It allows you to "people heaven"! It is
what good Catholic women have been doing for
thousands of years. And these good women, these
full-time Catholic mothers lovingly doing their
duty, are the true heroes!
Rather than
"giving back" to others through a job for
remuneration (a job that only lasts for a short
while, and for which you will eventually be
replaced), you instead give back freely and from
your heart through your spouse and through your
moral, upright children. You are made a better
person in the process. And you bestow great benefits
upon society.
In contrast,
women's career planning may seek to feed ambition,
boost pride, increase status, notoriety or wealth
(or perhaps some women wrongly think it's what they
are supposed to do) or otherwise make a woman feel
"important", rather than consider what's truly best
for their husband and children, or their
relationship with God. Yet the very reason women
(and men) were created is "to know, love, and serve
God" according to a traditional catechism. Nothing
should go against the very purpose of life! Working
women, especially "successful" career women, may
even be called to leave their "private Catholic
beliefs" behind them in order to "succeed". In
reality that's a terrible failure, not success.
It's also
failure if a woman limits her family size to
accommodate a job. It's a dreadful, sinful failure
to sacrifice your own children for a career. It's
like trading an immense diamond for a piece of dirt!
Actually, it's much worse. And even if a fertile
woman somehow does not limit her family size to
maintain a career, she necessarily must push the
responsibility of her children onto others because
the limited hours of the day cannot permit
otherwise. Even if children are in the care of other
family members, a mother that hands off her children
to others still lays aside her own personal
responsibilities and puts them onto someone else.
And let's not
forget the husband also experiences negative
consequences when his beloved wife leaves the home
in pursuit of her career. It certainly cannot help
his desire to be the family's provider when he is
"no longer needed", nor can it help to have the
wife's focus shifted away from him or to be able to
enjoy less time with her. And then there's the
temptations that may arise when women are in the
workforce with men. One has only to imagine the
effect of women working outside the home on the
skyrocketing divorce rates. And
divorce, besides
being sinful, may have terrible effects on women and
children (and men too).
When you don't
do your God-given duties as a full-time wife and
mother, there are grave costs to you, your husband &
children, and to the community, even if you do not
see them. As Pope Pius XI warned back in the 1930's,
women working outside the home is a characteristic
of Communism:
"Communism
is particularly characterized by the rejection of
any link that binds woman to the family and the
home, and her emancipation is proclaimed as a basic
principle. She is withdrawn from the family and the
care of her children, to be thrust instead into
public life and collective production under the same
conditions as man. The care of home and children
then devolves upon the collectivity. Finally, the
right of education is denied to parents, for it is
conceived as the exclusive prerogative of the
community, in whose name and by whose mandate alone
parents may exercise this right." (Pope Pius XI,
"Divini Redemptoris", 1937 A.D.)
And communism
is evil! Pope Leo XIII called it, "the fatal plague
which insinuates itself into the very marrow of
human society only to bring about its ruin." Pope
Pius XI called it "intrinsically wrong" and Pope
Pius IX referred to it as the "unspeakable doctrine
of Communism." So think about that, the
"emancipation" of women from their families and
homes is "particularly" characteristic of Communism.
Do you perceive the great danger in that? Do you
also remember that the Blessed Virgin warned at
Fatima that (Communist) Russia would spread her
errors around the world?
We see
conclusively that Satan is still going after women,
like he did from the beginning in the Garden of
Eden. And if you ask me, women's careers are often
his modern modus operandi. Not only might women's
careers foster pride, delay marriage (and therefore
reduce family size), harm children, injure both
parents, negatively affect souls and society, and
potentially lead to
divorce, but they may also foster the grave sins
of
contraception and
abortion.
Wake up to his
deception, women!
Satan wants to trick you out of what will reward
& fulfill you, and he wants to frustrate your
ability to accomplish God's desired role for you.
Don't let him!
Listen to the
Holy Spirit through
Holy Scripture. For example, in Genesis, Chapter
3 God instructs the man (Adam) to work, not the
woman (the woman, Eve, is instead instructed
concerning childbearing); Sirach, Chapter 25 says a
man "is a slave, in disgrace and shame" when a wife
supports her husband; and the New Testament tells
women to be "good homemakers" (Ti. 2:5) and says
women are "saved through motherhood" (1 Tm. 2:15).
Get that? Women are not saved through careers, but
rather are saved through motherhood. And given the
benefits to women, men, children, and society from
full-time mothers, it's no wonder!
Those feminists
and others promoting careers for women seem to be
implicitly denying God-given roles. And rejecting
God's wise plans for women or men is not a good
thing, and it will ultimately not bring happiness.
Women working outside the home are not glamorous. It
does not make women "heroes". It does not help
fulfill women's purpose in life, "to know, love, and
serve God." Being an absent, part-time mother does
not benefit the children. Who would dare picture the
Blessed Virgin Mary as a career woman? Perish
the thought! Yet she is the most important woman in
all of human history. And the Holy Virgin should be
the highest role model for all women.
Remember that
no one can fulfill a mother's God-given duties in her
place, so it does make her derelict in those duties
if she neglects them or passes them off to others.
How is it that people can easily understand that if
they split their time over too many things, they
can't do anything well, but not see that this also
applies to the most important thing in their lives
after God: their families? Since when is a pittance
of time (e.g. 20% of a day) enough for one's own
children, especially in this sinful age? Who
actually believes part-time parenting is good for
(or fair to!) children?
Stop supporting
the harmful idea of careers for women. Do it for
yourself, for your husband, for society, for God.
And do it for the children. Remember what I said
above: your time and attention rightly belongs
foremost to your family. The time and attention
redirected away from them can NEVER be gained back,
no matter what you do. It will be lost forever.
Don't be like that bad, absent governor.
Signature:
Concerned Woman
Click Link Below To View:
Submit a Comment About this Article ('add post')
Read Comments Regarding this Article (if applicable)
Read Other
User-Submitted Articles
Submit Your Own
Article
More About User-Submitted Articles
Read User-Submitted Posts
Submit Your
Own Post
For Information Related To This Topic Try:
Catholic
Women (Topic Page)
Catholic Men (Topic Page)
Marriage (Topic Page)
Parenting (Topic Page)
Homeschooling (Topic Page)
Pro-Life (Topic Page)
A Challenge To Modern Women (User-Submitted Article)
We Need More Housewives (A MyCatholicSource.com
'Exclusive Article')
The Blessed Virgin Mary: The
Perfect Role Model (User-Submitted Article)
"Thanks to today's hardworking women"
(User-Submitted Article)
Machinations Of Our Mortal Enemy (Incl. Feminism /
'Career Women') [User-Submitted Article]
Catholic Life Section
More Information / Resources:
Click Here For Help =>
10,000+ Topics!
Click Here
For Thousands of Quotations From Popes, Saints, Scripture, Etc.
Categorized By Section
Looking For a Great
Catholic Home Page? Try the MCS Daily Digest™ (click here)
Didn't find what you were looking for?
Try Here
We make no guarantees regarding any item herein. By using
this site you indicate agreement to all terms. For terms information,
see "Important Notice" above and click
here.
|