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 We Can Be Heroes or Women of Faith in the Post-Biblical era
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-There are obviously too many women of faith to consider any of
-them individually as the typical representative of all of them
+We all have spent last couple of weeks following this series
+of awesome sermons about remarkable people of faith. I first
+thought that my task is the hardest one, to find one exceptional
+woman among millions of those who followed Jesus Christ in the
+post-Biblical times, but when listening to those sermons, it
+feels like not alone. Each one of us had a different task to pick
+one person from large set of candidates. However, I still believe
+that my task might be the most difficult one. Not only I am one
+of two preachers with the longest time period to pick from, but
+also the position of women was quite different during the ages
+than the one of men.
+
+There are number of interesting and famous women of faith during
+the centuries I could mention: Saint Macrina, Hildegard of
+Bingen, Saint Clare, if I wanted to be a Czech patriot, Saint
+Agnes of Bohemia, or Catherine of Siena, Hadewijch and Mechthild
+of Magdeburg, Marguerite Porete, who willing put down her life
+for her persuasion, and that’s just me getting into the Middle
+Ages, there were of course many many others, and I should not
+ignore the modern female saints like Mother Teresa of Calcutta
+or Sophie Scholl. I could also stop and talk about Katharina
+von Bora, a Protestant patron saint of pastors’ wives., or
+Idelette de Bure, a poor wife of the Swiss reformer, Jean Calvin,
+forgotten in life and mostly forgotten afterwards as well.
+
+In the end, I have not chosen either of them. While thinking
+about them and all other women throughout the ages, it occurred
+to me how different is the male and female style of service,
+and how these famous women were different from most other women
+in their time. Most (not all) of them were quite extraordinary
+themselves: daughters of kings, highest nobility, or otherwise
+extraordinary women, not sharing their fate with their less
+fortunate sisters. However, I believe, that those other women,
+who were completely forgotten, have a huge lesson to teach
+everyone of us these days, both men and women.
+
+I was thinking how for a man, it is typical when seeing a problem
+to be resolved, our first instinct is to get power so we can
+control things and change them. And it really doesn’t matter
+whether these are man we now mostly hate like Adolf Hitler or
+Vladimir Lenin, and their ends were terrible, or people who
+we adore, like Martin Luther King or perhaps in some weird
+sense Gándhí. Even when they didn’t even fight for power for
+themselves, and even if that power was not the formal one (like
+in the case of Mr King), their first instinct was the same:
+acquire the power and then use it for good. And too often it
+ended up with that acquisition of power, and good ends were
+forgotten.
+
+For centuries, for millennia, women never had even an opportunity
+to behave in such way, and they had to develop their own strategy
+how to deal with the pain of the world as they see it (and many
+men, often the most successful ones, learned that lesson as
+well).
+
+----
+
+I was thinking a lot about
+
+.. Problem ... inability to fix them ... depression ... how to deal
+   with it?
+
+-----
+
+.. https://youtu.be/-k3ABfmCr2I?t=56 Boromir TOO LONG
 
 Moreover, most of them, given the ever-present misogyny of the
 time, are hidden behind the much more famous men