61: Educate the Children
Chapter 61, "Educate the Children," emphasizes that true parental love necessitates a robust and practical education focused on developing children's faculties—physical, intellectual, and moral—to glorify God and ensure their earthly well-being and eternal salvation. This education should begin with instilling fundamental virtues and religious principles from infancy, treating children as rational beings capable of understanding, rather than mere animals. Parents, as their children's primary educators and God's delegates, are obligated to prepare them for both this life and the next, aligning their development with divine purpose and safeguarding them from sin.
For the full audiobook can be obtained here. The contents of this volume appeared originally in The Catholic Transcript, of Hartford, Connecticut, in weekly installments, from February, 1901, to February, 1903.
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