Our mission is to bring women to an encounter with Christ through the truth, beauty, and goodness of their femininity.
Why do we believe genuine encounter can happen through learning more about ourselves as women?
All creatures bear a certain resemblance to God, most especially man, created in the image and likeness of God. The manifold perfections of creatures - their truth, their goodness, their beauty - all reflect the infinite perfection of God. Consequently we can name God by taking his creatures' perfections as our starting point, "for from the greatness and beauty of created things comes a corresponding perception of their Creator. CCC #41
As the Catechism of the Catholic Church #41 tells us, “the manifold perfections of creatures… all reflect the infinite perfection of God.” This is especially true of man and woman, who are made in the image and likeness of God. By understanding ourselves on a deeper level—spiritually and biologically—we can come to know God in a deeper, more profound way.
We’ll work toward this mission in two main ways:
Body Literacy Education
Femininity Catechesis
Body Literacy Education
Body Literacy Education is teaching women about the biological reality of their bodies, especially regarding their fertility. This includes special attention to the basics of charting a cycle and health maintenance.
While we are promoters of several approved methods of charting, we currently teach the FEMM (Fertility Education and Medical Management) method at the New Eve Foundation. This model focuses on cervical mucus observations coupled with at-home LH testing to give women a full picture of what is going on hormonally throughout the course of her cycle. FEMM is particularly applicable to the single woman, as she can pursue Medical Management with her upkept chart, should she feel that she needs it.
Femininity Catechesis
Femininity Catechesis is teaching women about the spiritual reality of their lives as women through the Church's teachings on womanhood, femininity, and the human person.
Our approach to Femininity Catechesis centers on learning about what saints and theologians such as Pope St. John Paul II and St. Edith Stein wrote about the four identities of woman as daughter, sister, bride, and mother as well as the four aspects of the Feminine Genius: receptivity, sensitivity, generosity, and maternity.