(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!
“Souls are raised up by their contact with heroism and beauty.”
Father André-Jean FESTUGIÈRE (1898-1982)
Dominican
“Thus, each and every one of you, fathers and mothers, as artists working with great care at their easels and their statues, let us give all our cares to these admirable statues [our children.] It is true; painters, placing their artwork before them every day, apply the most fitting colors. Sculptors, too, do the same thing; they eliminate what is superfluous and add what is missing. Watch them attentively every day. What natural gift do they [our children] have that should be developed, what fault needs be eliminated? With attentive care, firstly extirpate the propensity to intemperance from their soul for it is extremely harmful in souls of young people … Before the child advances in years, teach him to be sober and vigilant, to watch and pray, to stamp all his words and his acts with the sign of the cross.”
Saint JOHN CHRYSOSTOM (c.344-407)
Archbishop of Constantinople, Father of the Church
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