Are Catholic women required to be beautiful?

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friardchips said:
It was then put forward, by myself, that although some subjects are not tackled in Scripture, explicitly, one can still deduce whether something is true, or not.
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No, you really can’t deduce that Mary and Jesus were physically attractive, as there are no descriptions of them in scripture. If the “body and soul relationship” worked like you describe, then everyone would look like a swimsuit model.
 
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friardchips said:
I am sure, from you wrote, that you were putting forward an idea that Jesus and Mary were not physically beautiful, and that such attributes were not mentioned in Scripture.

It was then put forward, by myself, that although some subjects are not tackled in Scripture, explicitly, one can still deduce whether something was true, or not.

The body and soul relationship, helps to answer this.
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Isaiah, chapter 53:

1 Who would believe what we have heard?
To whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?
2 He grew up like a sapling before him,
like a shoot from the parched earth;
He had no majestic bearing to catch our eye,
no beauty to draw us to him.
 
First, there is:

Isaiah mentions, prophetically, a description of the Sacrificial Lamb. Also, the Transfiguration, purports to a certain truth, that Jesus would not look the same after the Resurrection, as before. Hence, the word, ‘transfigure’.

SImilarly, the OT, seems to contain, prophetically, words pertaining to what beauty is to be, when fulfilled, in the person of the Holy Mother.

The point about the body and soul relationship, in regards to Jesus and the Holy Mother, is different to that of the rest of humanity, for all others have sinned and born the consequences of sin.
 
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friardchips said:
Isaiah mentions, prophetically, a description of the Sacrificial Lamb.
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Yeah: specifically that He wasn’t gonna be that great-looking.

I’m not talking about Jesus and Mary as they are in Heaven, but as they were on earth.
 
Doctor Who is never off topic ;). It can be a great example of Tolkien’s concept of fantasy pointing to the deeper mysteries of faith (see his essay “On Faerie Stories”). Who specifically helped me wrap my mind around the concept that God exists outside of time…there is no past, present, or future for God. Its all before him.
OK…back to the thread topic.
 
Should we embrace cosmetic plastic surgery to achieve and attain beauty?
 
The prophetic text in Isaiah can seem to indicate that Jesus was not someone of obviously physical ‘majestic’ beauty.

It is, I think, different for Our Lady, when in comparison to the rest of humanity. Her beauty was that of ‘Woman’. Already won by God, through Christ. So it is, that the subject and meaning of womanly ‘beauty’, is measured up to Our Lady, and not the other way around.
 
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The Old Testament accords, prophetically, ‘beauty’ to the Mother of God. It describes physical and spiritual beauty, entwined.
 
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It’s beautiful as is all Scripture but you will have to find it.
 
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Health is the foundation of beauty.

Concentrate on being healthy, physically, mentally and spiritually.

Once the above is taken cared off, beauty will come as a result.

Of course the secular definition of beauty can be disordered and can be detrimental to health. Disengage from social media as others had advised.
 
There is a pragmatic reason behind this campaign I think.

Thinner people are less of a burden to the healthcare system than overweight people.
 
Lara said:
But the important thing is not to look masculine. That means not swearing or making crude jokes, not wearing dark lumberjack outfits, not making too many heavy sounds with your feet, not joining a construction crew, not joining a hockey team, not smoking, not drinking beer, not spitting, not using the men’s washroom, not sitting with your legs apart, not walking around topless in the summer, not wearing heavy winter boots. Of course, you may manage to get one of these things wrong in a given year, but that should be about it.
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Uh…i do many of those things (not walking around topless mind you lol!)…pretty sure I’m still female. Who decdied that wearing heavy winter boots was masculine? And drinking beer?! seriously?
 
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From my experience, it seems to me that feminity is something inherent in all women. It is not something that can be achieved, like how people talk of manhood, but it can be obscured. Like when a woman tries to act tough and stoic due to past trauma or tries too hard to conform to a specific image. The key is to be authentic. I’ve had guy friends who tell me there are women who’d look feminine in a potato sack. I am not the most girly person, but my guy friends love how feminine I am. I don’t try and it is not really on my mind.
 
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