On reviving the Order of Widows

Reviving the Order of Widows
We don't need any 'permissions' from Mama Church:  She BE one
Widowhood is a STATION OF LIFE
God chooses our members

Three Virginities of Mary, Icon of the Church

virgin child who grows to be 

a young woman bursting with fertility,

who goes to her spouse as a virgin

   each of us begins as the Immaculate Conception:  that is how God saw us when we were conceived in His mind and realized through the creative power of the Father

who wholly embraces the Shema... 

and conceives the Word of God Himself

and goes to her spouse after the birth as a virgin again

each of blessed through holy matrimony that is fruitful has a first time that we laid with our beloved husbands as the mother of his child...  This also is a virginity, a newness in our relationship that changes everything.

who grieves at the sight...

of her dead God

and her dead husband

But rejoices as both still live!

When Almighy God elevates us to the Order of Widows, we are again virgin.  Like Virgin, or Mother, a Widow is a station of life.  

Catholic canon law prohibits that anyone be forced to change one's station of life. The difference is that this station is one that we may not have chosen.