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What is it to be a Mother – Father Michael Muller
What is it to be a Mother? Mothers are destined, by God, to bring up children for heaven. This is their grand mission. What a happiness, what an honor for a mother to give angels to heaven!Would to God she only knew the real dignity and importance of her mission, and comprehended the qualifications…
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The Four Last Things of Man
What, then should we often remember? We should often remember the four last things of man, that is : death, judgment, hell, and heaven. The Holy Ghost gives us, in Holy Scripture, an excellent means to be always preserved from committing sin. This means is, “In all thy works remember thy last end, and…
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The Providence of God
4. How long will this world last? The world will last as long as God is pleased to preserve and to govern it. The day of its destruction is known to God alone. The world in which we live is the temple of God. The earth, with all its thousands of flowers, forms the…
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Will Faith Alone Save Us?
No ; Christ says : “If thou wilt enter life, keep the commandments.” (Matt, xix., 17.) “Therefore, Faith without works is dead.” (James ii., 26.) To be saved it is not enough to believe that there is a God, who is the Creator and Lord of heaven and earth, the judge of the living…
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Dignity of Woman as Wife and Housekeeper
We have seen that the dignity of man as man, as husband, as father and as head of the family is very great. Let us now consider the sublime dignity of woman as wife, as manager of the family, and as mother. To be a wife, a house-keeper, and mother, is the destiny of…
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What is Indifference to Faith?
Indifference to faith is to care for no religion, to consider all religions equally good, or to neglect attending religious instruction. Our future and true home is heaven. Oh! how full of joy and sweetness is that one word, “heaven, paradise.” To the ear of the exile there is nothing sweeter than the name…
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Duty Of Parents To Assist Their Children In Choosing A State Of Life
When the time has arrived for children to choose a state of life, whether the married, the single, the ecclesiastical or religious state, parents should, if necessary, give them proper advice. In giving advice on so important a subject, they should not be guided by merely human motives and self-interest, but by the vocation…
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How Parents Sin Against Their Duty Of Setting A Good Example To Their Children
As pious parents, generally speaking, bring up pious children, so also bad parents bring up bad children. Children easily imitate what they see; but they imitate more readily bad actions, to which nature is inclined, than the example of virtue, to which nature has a repugnance; and though they may sometimes think to themselves…
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Education by Example
The best way to bring up holy children is to set them a good example. “Words move,” says the well-known proverb, “but examples attract.” Men, says Seneca, place more implicit faith in what they see than in what they hear. Children are like apes. They easily imitate what they see. If they notice in…
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Duty of Parents to Educate their Children
God raised fathers and mothers to the sublime dignity of giving a natural existence to their children. In raising them to this dignity, he obliged them to bring them up to perfection. The same cause which has produced any given effect, must also carry onward that effect, as far as it can, to perfection.…