PARENTS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE PURITY OF THEIR CHILDREN.

Parents must watch over and nurture the purity of their children from a very young age, so that they acquire shame and honesty, and are modest in their speech, manners, and dress. It is the responsibility of parents to prevent their children from acquiring bad habits in this area, even if they do not understand the wrongness of their actions, because later it will be difficult for them to free themselves from vice.

Parents, take care of your children. Let us see what Pius XII says: “Unfortunately,” says the Pope, “it sometimes happens that Christian parents, with such care in the education of a son or daughter, always keeping them away from dangerous pleasures and bad company, suddenly see their children, at 18 or 20 years of age, victims of miserable and scandalous falls: the good seed they sowed has been ruined by the weeds.

Who was the enemy of humankind who caused so much harm?”  “What happened,” the Pope continued, “was that in that same home, in that little paradise, the tempter, the cunning enemy, stealthily entered and found there the corrupting fruit to offer to innocent hands. A book left by chance on the father’s table was what destroyed the faith of his baptism in the son; a novel abandoned on the sofa or in the bedroom by the mother was what obscured the purity of her first communion in the daughter.”

The weeds can enter by leafing through magazines or newspapers found around the house; through television, through a news segment the child happened to see. Parents, guard the souls of your children. Please keep them away from the internet, tablets, and iPads, where they can access practically anything. They already see so much evil outside the home. May they at least find purity and virtue within it, beginning with the example of their parents.

What good is it to gain the whole world if we lose our soul?  What value is there in the instant and fleeting satisfaction that causes us to lose heaven, deserve hell, and crucify Our Lord anew? Trusting in God, distrusting ourselves, with firm resolve, let us be chaste and pure according to our state in life.