So it is idle for you to complain about the drawbacks to spirituality that you find in your particular vocation. Every woman's specific circumstances are certainly different, but the challenges he discusses so clearly here are just as clearly common to us all. By recognising that it is God who given us this work, and the grace to do it too, he answers. Dom Van Zeller is not the only one who has this to say. Catherine Doherty, founder of the Madonna House Lay Apostolate, and Father Jose Maria Escriva, founder of Opus Dei, taught much the same things.
Obedience is an especially important concept for housewives.
We are largely autonomous in our work, the scheduling of each day is left up to us. We keep the budget and make most purchases. The discipline of the children is ours to determine and implement. Yet, we are to be obedient to God, to our husbands, and to the needs of our children. We are to be obedient in a world that has largely forgotten what the word means.