Before kicking off the first Rosary Girl Walk at the entrance of the Manhattan Beach Pier the morning of Jan. 17, fitness influencer Melanie Meza gathered the 100 women who’d shown up to welcome those who came alone to find a prayer partner.
“I don’t want anyone to feel alone,” she said at the Saturday morning event. “I want women to feel like they have community, that they belong, and that they’re loved.”
Then the women — all of them from either Los Angeles or Orange counties — made their way north along the Manhattan Beach Strand, passing multimillion-dollar houses with their rosaries in hand. As they worked their way through the Joyful Mysteries, late arrivals kept joining the procession.
What started as a simple prayer and a “75 Hard” challenge for her fitness journey last year evolved into a calling that Meza said she couldn’t ignore. After having fruitful conversations with Catholic women across her social media page and in person, she wanted to step in and help.
Meza maintains a strong social media presence, where she promotes her work as a Catholic fitness coach for women. Through her platform, she encourages women to pursue physical fitness, grow in virtue, and keep Christ at the center of their lives.
As she reflected on how to better serve women, she asked herself, “What do women need?”
Then, she said, the answer came to her heart: “Women need community.”
Following a day of prayer at St. Michael’s Abbey, a Norbertine monastery in the Orange County town of Silverado, Meza, whose fitness-themed Instagram account has nearly 10,000 followers, said she felt inspired to post a rosary walk invitation on social media.
The idea was a success.
“I have been looking for a women’s community, especially for my age. I’m 29, almost 30. And the women at my church that I’m close to” are all older or married with grown children, said Marriah Amador, who commuted from Hacienda Heights, where she belongs to St. John Vianney Church….
By Kimmy Chacon in Angelus News
Physical exercise is very important for good health. Nice to have a Catholic women’s fitness coach. But I will say even more. American women need to return to expressing and living out a life of their God-given, suthentic, natural, beautiful femininity, and unique, womanly, grace-filled virtue– as women used to do, before the horrors of the lesbian “women’s lib” and “unisex” “campus co-ed hippie-slob” days– ugly (originally, farm-worker, men-only) jeans and t-shirt, anti-society, Beatnik/hippie-style, uncurled, straight long hair, with no pretty hairdos, no makeup, no bras, no pretty dresses/heels– and no Womanhood. No more unique, natural, girls and women-oriented, lovely traditions, activities, social groups, and clubs, from girlhood to old age. “What is a woman?” A crazy political concept, dreamed up by a bunch of angry, vengeful, mentally ill, lesbian activist freaks– out on a crazy rampage to destroy authentic, beautiful, grace-filled, God-given Womanhood?
Men are not going to marry those women. Men have realized that marriage is a trap and a financial disaster when the wife files for divorce and takes the kids and you have to pay the settlement and spousal support. Women did it to themselves.
So I hope they enjoy their little community. It might be all that they can find. If it doesn’t work out they can join the thousands of other unhappy women who post their rant videos on TikTok.
One view of modern women — wait a minute. These are CATHOLIC women. Not the “TikTok” disasters of Godless modern women you saw, online. These young,
devout Catholic women hopefully have excellent Catholic beliefs amd good values, and would just love to fall in love with a wonderful, devout young Catholic man, who loves and treasures his faith. And together, establish a beautiful, authentic, traditional Catholic Marriage and Family. These Catholic women may have been unjustly mistreated by our current evil, modern, liberal, extremely immoral society. How many of them have struggled.in jobs that are cruel to them, in regards to morality, decency, and Catholic beliefs? Teaching, nursing, pharnacy,, social work, library work, psychology, and many more fields, have become extremely corrupt.
In the early 1970s, I had a good friend who was married to a university professor, at a fine Midwestern university in Ohio, with two young children. She, and myself, and all of my friends– were struggling with the evils of the 1960s, including the extremely destructive, raging feminist mania, tearing up the Nation. My friend was active.in her church, and also active in a wonderful organization that helped foreign students. She was also active in a university wives organization. And had plans to help establish a preschool at the university. Anyway, one time, the local newspaper printed a story about her receiving an award for her good work, for one of these organizations. Instead of noting that she was a lovely, local wife of a university professor, and a mother and homemaker, with two children– they ignored all of that– and just stated her “profession” (as a woman was now “supposed” to have a profession!) as a “Domestic Engineer.” Everyone laughed at it until we all were sick. And contacted the reporter at the newspaper, to let him know that his error was horribly wrong, and extremely demeaning — and he should apologize for it.
I am so disgusted with the lack of modesty in contemporary women that I want nothing to do with them.
Men have mostly checked out of dating or wanting to marry because of the way modern women act. That’s why you have women doing these social activities together to bond in sisterhood or becoming Disney adults to hide their unhappiness or posting videos about giving drugs to ICE officers (she was fired and will be prosecuted) or harassing law enforcement. It’s only single women or lesbians who are doing those things. There is a new acronym: A.W.F.U.L. that means Affluent White Female Urban Liberal. Just about sums up what’s happened to a lot of privileged women these days. Men have checked out of it, which makes them even more angry.
I was under the impression that these are devout Catholic women—not the horrible modernist feminist freaks you are describing. I thought that many of these young women, were the lovely, devout young Catholic women, who pray in front of abortion clinics, attend beautiful traditional Novus Ordo or Latin Tridentine Masses, love Christ and Our Lady, pray the Rosary daily, go to Adoration regularly, wear lovely, modest dresses to church, along with pretty, traditional mantillas– and hope to find a devout young Catholic man to marry. I thought that this article was about those lovely young women– who truly need and deserve our support.
This ministry meets a need for community in a Church that has difficulty fostering community. Alas, women here have taken the initiative– all well and good– but I believe men have a harder time forming community bonds than women, and it is just as necessary for men to have some form of spiritual community and hunger for it as much as women, as expressed by Marriah Amador above.
There is a lovely Catholic shop in Kimmswick, MO, near St. Louis, MO, called “Veils by Lily,” run by a wonderful, traditional, devout Catholic wife and mother, originally from Chile. She and her crew sell beautiful, traditional mantillas of all types, and promote Traditional Catholic devotions, and the taditional Catholic wife and motherhood, too. They love both the Latin Tridentime Mass and the Novus Ordo Mass, done traditionally. They love the Rosary and Adoration! They also have given scholarships to worthy, devout Catholic students. This is what we need, for young, traditional, devout Catholic women, in California.
How many of you are familiar with a song about women that involves the theme of poison ivy? I think that there is a different version of that song depending on which decade you grew up in. If the song was about educated women, the song should be called “Poison Ivy League”. If someone sprinkled Holy Water on women, they would catch on fire.
… You better get yourself an ocean,
of calamine lotion,
Poison Ivy League, Poison Ivy League …
There was a funny song on the radio in the late 1950s called “Poison Ivy,” about a teenage boy who got hurt by a girl he dated– and he warned others to avoid her. She was like poison ivy– or the measles, mumps, chicken pox, whooping cough, and other diseases. However.. in today’s evil society– a girl who hurts a boy like a “disease,” might mean something else– not nice. Anyway– I have always avoided those “AWFUL” (as another poster put it) women– and “AWFUL” men, too– like the plague. A total “NO” to them all, since the filthy, Godless, immoral 1960s. They are all from some other planet– not mine.
Clearly men and women have trouble understanding each other. You could even conclude that modern men and modern women are incompatible because they have lost their understandings of authentic masculinity and femininity. That problem is writ large in our country where the Democrat Party is the hyper-feminized party (not feminine) and the Republican Party is the masculine party.
Young Catholic men and women probably need to accept the probability of a life being unmarried. My parish used to have three weddings each Saturday during the busy summer months decades ago. Now there are barely ten weddings per year, and half of those are just convalidations of older couples’ civil marriages. Young people are not getting married hardly.
Most alpha males are drawn to feminine women, and vice-versa.
Thanks to the Man above for that.
Hey guys, see that lady’s hand in the center of the pic with the long, fake, well-manicured fingernails holding the rosary? Those fingernails are a red flag to stay the heck away. High maintenance there.
What’s wrong with lovely, well-manicured nails on feminine hands? My mother taught us how to groom our hands and nails nicely, when we were young girls. Love womanly culture, with relaxing and nurturing care of hands, feet, face and hair. And proper nutrition and weight control, good posture, and good exercise regimens. Cannot stand the ugly, unfeminine, hardened “lesbian-style” athletic culture of today– which savagely mocks true womanliness, gracefulness, and womanly reserve, mystery and modesty– and emphasizes ugly crudeness, “sexiness,” and brashness.
On a closer look– it looks like the girl with the Rosary has very long nails. I prefer simpler, short, well-groomed nails, for myself. Love pink nail polish! Nice to go to a beauty salon, relax, and have some of these feminine beauty services. I refuse to go to modern beauty salons that have become “unisex,” and serve lots of men– as well as women. I do not believe in that. Most important, is a womanly love of Our Lady and the Rosary. I think the girl in the picture probably loves Our Lady, and loves to say her Rosary.
That’s exactly what “fingernails” meant by his post, I think. A woman with those kind of long, fake nails is not going to be washing the dishes, cleaning the house, caring for a baby, doing housework, gardening lest she break a nail or ruin the polish. She’s going to expect princess treatment and expensive salon trips. Too many women raised on Disney movies expect princess treatment from men. Those women are not marriage material.
No, she may be young and trying on things– like pretty long nails. Lots of normal, feminine girls do that. Ugly, brash feminist types reject femininity and pretty “princess” styles. I absolutely loved the “princess” characters in fairy tales like “Sleeping Beauty,” “Cinderella” etc. as a child. We were taught the true meaning of being a “princess” — a true princess is beautiful on the inside, as well as lovely on the outside. She is not a narcissist, not selfish, and she cares for others, and cultivates beautiful virtue.
When I was younger, my fingernails were always well-groomed, polished and quite long all the time. I never went to a manicurist but did it myself. One day I went to a small local library and asked help from the librarian. While helping, the woman looked at my hands and made the comment that one could always tell who did not wash her own dishes. I thought nothing of her comment until I got home and it occurred to me that she was referring to my hands. Well, she was wrong, I washed, and still do wash, my own dishes and garden with gloves applying lotion afterward.
Regarding my last post, I wore them that way because that was the way my husband liked them. Now that I am older and have worked with more children than you can imagine, opening glue bottles, helping with finger painting, not liking to scratch others and myself by accident with nails too long, and on and on, I keep them shorter and wear nail polish on special occasions.
How lovely, that you appreciate your feminine gifts and take good care of your hands. Good grooming reflects good values of a lovely lady. I am sure your husband appreciates that, too. Lovely, graceful, caring hands of a woman, look beautiful on her Wedding Day, and on every day thereafter, caring for her family. Lovely hands of a woman pray for her family, and teach her children to pray, and say the Rosary. Her lovely hands pick out good books to read to children at the library, too. A woman’s lovely, soft and gentle hands, pick up and hold a small child on their lap, and read wonderful stories to them– with a great big hug and a kiss. You deserved a compliment from that mean librarian.
Long ago, in the days of “I Love Lucy,” on early TV (we loved that show!) housewives dressed up daily in dresses ans heels, wirh jewelry, makeup, perfume, and lovely hairdos, every day– whether they worked part-time or were stay-at-home moms. Being a homemaker was a very important profession! Many moms were involved helping in their kids’ activities, or church and charity work, part-time. Little girls dreamed of the day they would grow up to wear pretty dresses and heels, makeup, jewelry, perfume– and even a pretty hat and gloves, not only for church– but to go downtown shopping, or even to the grocery store. Beaity salons were strictly for girls and women, who took pride (not evil vanity) in looking their best. Feminine culture was fun, nurturing and relaxing– and very healthy, socially.
In the pre-Conciliar era, our Church had a great many wonderful men’s and women’s groups. It also had a great many young people, who often easily found marriage partners at church. We used to have one or two weddings a week, in many parishes! We had ladies’ altar guilds, Rosary groups, bake sales for fundraising, and many charities. Also, the Legion of Mary was huge, with both men and women participating. And many belonged to lay religious orders, etc. Many men joined all-men Catholic groups, like the Holy Name Society, and the Knights of Columbus, and their wives were in the Auxiliary. The Serra Club was active in promoting vocations to the priesthood. There was lots to do in those days.
Nowadays parishes struggle to get more than five people between the ages of 20 and 35 to come to a young adult event
What the Vatican II prelates failed to realize– is that Sacred Tradition– the authentic Catholic Faith of our ancestors, loved, and practiced daily, by devout Catholics, in time-tested ways, for 2000+ years— and tramsmitted faithfully to each generation of children, down through the ages– is what sustains the Catholic Faith. Our religion was nearly annihilated, by the Council Fathers, radically stripping the Catholic Faith (especially, in the New Mass) down to a bare
modernist, “ecumenized,” barely recognizable state — and our seminaries, religious orders, parish schools, and Catholic colleges, were nearly destroyed. Catholicism is not something that you merely “read about,” in “contemporary” religious books, written by shallow, modernist prelates, re-interpreting the ancient Catholic Faith in their own style. Daily practice of our Faith, in a holy (not worldly, modernist) manner, is meant to help us to become holy, prepared for Heaven.
One of my favorite fairy tales as a child, was “The Wild Swans,” by Hans Christian Anderson. It is about a widowed king in a faraway kingdom, who marries a queen, who turns out to be a wicked witch. Out of spite, the wicked queen banishes her 12 stepchildren– Elisa, a princess, and her eleven brothers– from the kingdom. She tries to bewitch Elisa, but it doesn’t work– the 15-year-old princess is too pure and good. So she tears Elisa’s dress and throws dirt in her face, to make her look ugly. Then she puts a terrible curse on the 11 brothers, turning them into wild swans. They turn back into humans only at night, but turn back into swans who must fly by day. The swans rescue Elisa and fly her safely to a foreign land…. Love and Virtue triumph over Evil.
My comment of Jan. 29 at 2:09 pm, got cut short. Anyway– in the foreign land, Elisa was helped by the Queen of the Fairies, on how to remove her brothers’ curse — by making a great sacrifice. For many years, she had to gather painful, stinging nettles in graveyards, and sew them into 11 shirts for her brothers — remaining mute, enduring misunderstanding. Finally, the curse was ended. A good king noticed the selfless Virtue and sacrifices of Elisa, and married her– crowning the princess as his Queen! Love, Virtue and Selfless Sacrifice wins! Wonderful for kids to learn!
It is very important for parents to read stories aloud to their children, from birth. Later, a child should be given good books to read, on their own. From an early age, children should read good, classic children’s literature (not modern, liberal junk) age-appropriate, to develop their minds and hearts, stimulate their imaginations, and develop good character. The Bible and Catechism are important, too, of course. And no TV or computers.
I remember those stories. Another one was “The Little Match Girl”. It was a about a poor child who lived mostly on the streets and sold matches to get money to buy food. One night when she was hungry and outside selling matches, no one was buying. She began striking the matches one by one to keep from freezing to death. After she struck and used the last one, she had a beautiful heavenly vision before she froze to death.
Those stores taught us to be virtuous and have compassion for those less fortunate than us. I read those stories to my children.
Loved that poignant fairy tale– also of Hans Christian Anderson. The little girl’s soul is taken to Heaven by her loving grandmother, whom she keeps seeing in her visions. Her grandmother was the only one who ever truly loved her. This tragic fairy tale helps us think of all the poor, suffering, and dying children in the world, and desire to do something to help them. Makes you cry!
I always think of the entertainer Danny Kaye when I think of Hans Christian Andersen as Kaye played the part, but the two were definitely different.
These women taking part in the Rosary Walk are an inspiration to all. California needs many Rosary Walks.
I find the rosary boring to pray
To the poster “Boring”: you could say the Jesus Prayer while walking. It can be very peaceful and calming while walking in rhythm on a beautiful day. The “Jesus Prayer” can be said on the small beads, the Theotokia on the large beads. One Jesus Prayers is: “Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me a sinner.” The prayer to the Virgin is “Holy Theotokos, pray for us. “You could also say the Psalms or read the Liturgy of the Hours while sitting.
If I have misspelled “Theokokia” or “Theotokos”, Deacon Anderson or someone in the Eastern Rite, please correct me.