Oh! Brothers, never expose your children to losing the grace of God; on the contrary, understand the honor you have been given to watch over Jesus Christ in watching over your children. Saving France is, above all, saving the education of youth and reviving the establishment of Truth in the souls of children.

Reverend Fr. De Chivré (1902-1984)
Dominican

“You have become guardians and directors of the divine life in these children; and in the evening of your life, Eternal Love and Eternal Justice will ask for an account of the education you have given to these little ones, of your example and words spoken towards these innocent and inexperienced souls. You will have to explain why they could not naively contemplate the crucifix above the hearth and the statue of the Blessed Virgin. You will have to admit why you did not watch over their prayer life, their catechism, their readings. You will have to render account for the education given or – more exactly – for the lack of education, this scourge of modern family life. There, the child is no longer a child; he is a tyrant. He does not obey, he refuses. He does not follow directives, he chooses. He doesn’t work, he has fun. Everything in his comportment and in his words is tolerated; and when he is twenty, forced to confront such insubordination, parents come to us and beg us to repair the irreperable. We will have to render account to God concerning the underlying reasons for these guilty neglects.”

Reverend Fr. De Chivré (1902-1984)
Dominican