Posted in Saints on Oct 3rd, 2007
Juliana helped me to easily start off this series on women saints by requesting that I share her patron saint.
Saint Juliana of Lazarevo (?-1604) was a married laywoman who spent her life as a homemaker, wife and mother in the Murom region of Russia during the reign of Ivan the terrible. After the falling [...]
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Posted in Saints on Oct 3rd, 2007
Browsing the Christian blogosphere, it seems like many woman are striving to be Titus 2 women. I wasn’t exactly sure what this meant; so I looked up the passage as well as some sites relating to this trend.
Titus 2:3-5 says, “Likewise, teach the older women to be reverent in the way they live, not to [...]
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Posted in Saints on Oct 3rd, 2007
The Theotokos is our prime example of what a godly woman should look like.
The Virgin Mary is the Theotokos, the mother of Jesus Christ, the Son and Word of God. She conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit. She was cared for by her betrothed husband, Joseph, who took the child and his [...]
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