God's Princess Warriors

The parable of the ten virgins or keeping oil in our lamps is about preparing for good and great things, in the future, and waiting now, in a spirit of preparation, for those things and not getting derailed from the goal and mission of being prepared for those things. Ultimately, we are waiting for Jesus, the Bridegroom, but the same principle applies to good things we prepare and work for leading to Christ, to God, our greatest good. In these lesser good things, we learn the habits and virtues and what we are with these things, we will likely be similar with, with the greater things, as well.

It is important for Princess Warriors to be prepared for Jesus, when they meet Him and He asks something of them in this life, or when they meet Him at death, in the passage from time to eternity, and then at the Particular Judgement, after which is either Heaven – The Marriage Feast, or Purgatory, where more preparation would be found to be required of the soul, or Hell.

Even in this life, we can be not sufficiently prepared for important everyday things, and get caught off guard by what Jesus asks of us when he arrives unexpectedly into our everyday lives, if we are not sufficiently prepared for his visits, as we ought to be.

Preparing and keeping watch with the Blessed Mother is highly advised and recommended. Mary came from the Hebrew people who were preparing for ages and waiting with expectant hope for the coming of the Messiah to the earth. Mary was the best at preparing for this and shows us the way during this difficult time of what might be called a ‘torment of separation’ where we are not quite at the fulfillment of what we are waiting for, hoping for, and preparing for. (Song of Songs Chapter 5).

Echoing the words of St. Padre Pio, we might say, Prepare the way Mary prepared, for the coming of the Messiah in ancient Israel… keep the lamps filled with oil in your everyday life, however the Scripture is interpreted, when you read it – it is different for each person, what the meaning is, guided by God, especially God the Holy Spirit. (Ref. St. Padre Pio “Listen to the Mass the way the Virgin Mary stood at the Calvary”).

The obvious preparation for young people is for their vocation in life – keeping the lamps filled and preparing for those vocations, whether they be to the married state in life, the religious state in life, or the single state in life, or the universal call to holiness, or even something like a vocation to become a great saint in a spirit of Diary of St. Faustina P. 283 – Let no soul, even the most miserable, fall prey to doubt; for, as long as one is alive, each one can become a great saint, so great is the power of God’s grace. It remains only for us not to oppose God’s action; and We are all called to be great saints, don’t miss the opportunity – Mother Mary Angelica.

The time before a vocation for young people is a critical time that many in the world today are failing at. They are missing the importance of this time as a time of serious preparation for their vocations, not understanding the time before marriage or the religious life or the adult vocations to be such, and are often confused about what they should be doing during that time and using the time badly and making serious mistakes that impact the rest of their lives, those vocations, and their eternal salvations and eternal lives as well.

The Spirit of Advent and Christmas is about just this spirit of preparation. Waiting and working at becoming prepared and preserving oneself for those important things and getting ready, and having fun as well, and enjoying where you are in life beforehand, and not needing to rush off into those things before their time, and make many painful mistakes that way.

Preparing for the vocation of marriage and doing preparations fitting for young people meant for the vocation of marriage, is a wonderful time in itself, and oftentimes young people can be so pressured to have their vocations now, they can barely even understand what that time is meant for, let alone use it wisely, and enjoy it and have a great time doing so in the present moment there as well. They think, they can’t be happy until they are married or a wife or a mother, because they don’t understand the time before that to a valuable worthwhile full of life and gusto time in life as well, just as wonderful if the time is enjoyed and used as it should be, doing what one should do to prepare in that time.

As a result of badly using that time and wanting to be in their vocations now, and sometimes falling into sin as well and losing virtue, many are not keeping the oil in their lamps. If they do not recover or repent and correct and stop being so simple and gain wisdom, before the Bridegroom arrives, they might be the foolish virgins, in the sense of the parable, or in some way like them, and need to change.

In the United States today, the statistic is about 3% on the number of people that stay pure before marriage – there is a general cultural and societal crisis at this time in the area of preparation before a vocation, especially the vocation of marriage and many people are struggling to pick up the pieces of the brokenness or be the few that make it. (See https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1802108/).

A great saint to follow and look up to for the spirit of preparation in many things in life, other than St. Mary is St. Sister Faustina Kowalska, a great saint of the Divine Mercy, entrusted with something as great in preparation things as preparing the world for the Final Coming:

See https://www.thedivinemercy.org/ for more background on the Divine Mercy and the Diary of St. Faustina Maria Kowalska, Divine Mercy in My Soul.

Some examples of everyday great and small things to start to prepare for, and enjoy the time of preparation itself for the wonderful time that it is:

1. The Final Judgment
2. Meeting the Bridegroom face to face in the next life (after death) and your Particular Judgement
3. A vocation (generally the married vocation, the single vocation, or the religious life, and the universal call to holiness for everyone – Diary 283.)
4. Christian Perfection and Becoming Perfect (a Perfect Soul – see the Diary of St. Faustina for further explanation – or a Soul Striving for Perfection https://divinemercyforamerica.org/product/store/books/conversations-merciful-god/)

5. Higher Education, College, University, and so on. Developing the talents that God gave you in life, especially gifts of talents of study, as a worthwhile endeavor for people for that as well. See The Parable of the Talents.
6. A successful and fulfilling professional career, that benefits you, society, your family, and the larger community and world.
7. Military Service.
8. The Larger Movements within the Catholic Church – great events to participate in and follow Jesus as a Disciple informed and connected with what is going on, on the Church Schedule… some seem to be asleep too when perhaps they should be seeking the Bridegroom with greater effort and preparing with the whole Church at what time it is generally for the whole Church from on high. Many Catholics and the whole world today are not in touch with this, and asleep… just as the world was called a sleeping world when Jesus arrived to Israel in the ancient world.
9. Ultimately the best way to enter into such a spirit of Preparation is to spend much time in prayer with God, and give Him the opportunity to tell you, in the silence of your heart, what it is you should be doing in life and preparing for, and guiding you along the way.