No one could say anything evil of her because she greatly feared God.
---- mine,
Of Judith, it was said that she was a God-fearing woman, and so must it be said of you as well as of every Christian woman. There has never been an age in human history when evil was not rampant, when the lure of the world, the flesh, and the devil did not have a stranglehold on humanity. There is no excuse for anyone who is called by My Name to be anything less than the woman God created them to be. The world feeds women with ambitions and desires that are contrary to their innate nature, causing confusion, which results in their becoming creatures of the world rather than a mirror reflecting the heart and mind of their Creator. Take for your ideal and your model, My Mother, and reflect on how so many women of every age, in every race, culture, and language made it their life's goal to be like her in all things by striving diligently and heroically to imitate her virtues. She was sublime in her submission to the will of My Father, and her total abandonment to her Spouse, the Holy Spirit. There is no creature more faithful, more virtuous, more in love with God, more humble, who gladly chose to walk the Way of the Cross and, doing so, resolutely embracing the way of suffering to her last breath. She stood valiantly beside Me and suffered every pang that I suffered. Every blow, every spiteful, mocking insult, every fall on the stony road to Calvary, and every wound they inflicted on My Body was also inflicted just as deeply on her soul; this is why she is co-redemptrix with the Redeemer of the world. No one in all creation was ever more finely tuned in to Me as she was. This is why My Mother is the ideal Woman. Imitate her. Ask for her help, she gives it readily and immediately. Follow her example and ponder all things deeply in your heart as she did. The Holy Spirit will help you to grow more and more like her every day, so it can be said of you as it was said of Judith, 'No one could say anything evil of her because she greatly feared God.'
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