48. Parents are called to cooperate with the Holy Spirit

48. Parents are called to cooperate with the Holy Spirit

48. Parents are called to cooperate with the Holy Spirit
Lucien Hoydic 19:58 Thu May 25/23 39 lines

In national life there are two things which are really essential:
the laws concerning marriage and the laws to do with education.
In these areas God's sons have to stand firm and fight with
toughness and fairness, for the sake of all mankind. (The Forge,
104)

Being a father or a mother is not simply a matter of bringing
children into the world. The capacity for generation, which is a
share in the creative power of God, is meant to have a
continuation. Parents are called to cooperate with the Holy
Spirit in the development of their children into men and women
who will be authentic Christians.

The parents are the first persons responsible for the education
of their children, in human as well as in spiritual matters. They
should be conscious of the extent of their responsibility. To
fulfill it, they need prudence, understanding, a capacity to love
and a concern for giving good example. Imposing things by force,
in an authoritarian manner, is not the right way to teach. The
ideal attitude of parents lies more in becoming their children's
friends friends who will be willing to share their anxieties,
who will listen to their problems, who will help them in an
effective and agreeable way.

Parents should find time to spend with their children, to talk
with them. They are the most important thing more important
than business or work or rest. In their conversations, parents
should make an effort to listen, to pay attention, to understand,
to recognize the fact that their children are sometimes partly
right or even completely right in some of their rebellious
attitudes. At the same time, they should help their children to
direct their efforts and to carry out their projects properly,
teaching them to consider things and to reason them out. It is
not a matter of imposing a line of conduct, but rather of showing
the human and supernatural motives for it. In a word, parents
have to respect their children's freedom, because there is no
real education without personal responsibility, and there is no
responsibility without freedom. (Christ is passing by, 27)

48/1. John Palmer 20:48 Thu May 25/23 5 lines

Hmm - that last sentence seems woke and wrong. The
neccessary prerequistites for freedom are the rules
(i.e. responsibility and the Law). Without the law
(moral code) to guide us, we are not free, but slaves
to our passions and impulses.

48/2. Lucien Hoydic 22:03 Thu May 25/23 5 lines

I re-read that and I tend to agree that its in
the wrong order. Freedom is only possible with
the law, otherwise, like you said, you are a slave
to passions and impulse without the discipline of
a moral code.

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