(Ephesians 5:8)
Parents, leaders, and educators, we have a mission, a duty to lead children's souls toward the Light which will be their guide and their happiness. In order to illuminate the way that lies before each one of us, once a week we invite you to discover some of the words of certain wisemen and witnesses, measuring their worth by the words of St. Thomas Aquinas: “Do not consider the one who speaks, but whatever good you hear from him, confide it to your memory.” (from The Sixteen Ways to Acquire the Treasure of Knowledge by St. Thomas). Happy reading!
The misfortune of a youn student is not so much a lack of memory as a languid will. But the will is forged in the fire of God’s grace and immerses itself in the contact with great ideas and great examples.
Saint Bernard of Siena (1380-1444)
Franciscan
“Catholic parents should know and taste the psalms enough to choose which of them will be the most appropriate for the needs of their family in any given situation, be it in joy or pain, in hope or difficulty, in propserity or failure. I know a lay person, a professor of Gregorian chant and the father of a large family, whose wife would sing to her children a short response from the liturgy in order to put them to sleep; and there was nothing wasteful or trifling in this. What could better correspond to the needs of a Catholic family then the feelings and intentions that Holy Mother Church Herself expresses in her prayers and plain-chant?”
Thomas Merton (1915-1968)
Trappist monk
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