Imitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Two great tasks entrusted to women merit the attention of everyone. First of all, the task of bringing full dignity to married life and to motherhood. Today new possibilities are opened to women for a deeper understanding and a richer realization of the human and Christian values implied in married life and the experience of motherhood.
Man himself--husband and father--can be helped to overcome forms of absenteeism and of periodic presence as well as a partial fulfilment of parental responsibilities--indeed he can be involved in new and significant relations of interpersonal communion--precisely as a result of the intelligent, loving and decisive intervention of woman. Secondly, women have the task of assuring the moral dimension of culture, the dimension, namely of a culture worthy of the person, of an individual yet social life.
The Second Vatican Council seems to connect the moral dimension of culture with the participation of the lay faithful in the kingly mission of Christ: "Let the lay faithful by their combined efforts remedy the institutions and conditions of the world when the latter are an inducement to sin, that all such things may be conformed to the norms of justice, and may favor the practice of virtue rather than hindering it. By so doing, they will infuse culture and human works with a moral value."
Apostolic Exhortation, Christifideles Laici Of His Holiness John Paul II Given at Rome, in St. Peter's, on 30 December, 1988
Apostolic Exhortation, Christifideles Laici Of His Holiness John Paul II Given at Rome, in St. Peter's, on 30 December, 1988
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