Raising Catholic Children – Learning By Example
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Just a quick post today – actually simply sharing a post from another blog with you! I came across this on twitter and thought it very worthwhile to share here. While this post is written by a father who is married, I think it pertains to single parents, too.
Be forewarned that reading this post may make you a bit sad and envious, because it’s written by a man who is obviously in a good and holy marriage that is filled with love, which might make the pain of our failed marriages a bit sharper for a moment. Still, witnessing relationships like this offers hope that each of us, too, might be a part of such a relationship some day… and that our children will also experience such blessed relationships when they become adults. God willing!
The reason I’m sharing this with you is because it has to do with raising Catholic children and the “best” way to show them how to live and how to love.
Please take a few minutes to read this beautifully written post – Raising Gianna.
As single parents whose spouses are quite possibly not helping to raise our children Catholic, we DO have a harder time of it. However, never underestimate the power of even just one very positive influence in your child’s life! BE that positive influence….
God bless and bring you peace.
Manya
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Thank you for sharing that post…and for the warning…it was bittersweet but very worth it.
While human [fallen] nature can make us feel ‘a bit sad and envious’, we couldn’t allow such to govern our prerogatives in the spiritual battle. I think it’s important for us to think that when an individual Catholic is divorced but was not the one who caused or initiated it, s/he must think of the spouse as the one ‘wounded’ in the Spiritual Battle since s/he has lost the capacity to wage war against the ‘powers and principalities’ [having essentially abandoned Catholic teachings]. Thus, you as a faithful Catholic have just earned the double responsibility and duty of fighting for your salvation as well as that of your spouse.
And our love for the spouse should be no different from God’s love for him or her. Such is the silent martyrdom that God expects from us…which, of course, will not remain unrewarded, because we can never outdo God in justice and mercy.
Nestor,
Thank you for your thoughts.
Manya
Amanda,
Good to hear from you! Thank you for leaving a comment. Please send me an email and let me know how you are.
Manya