I think this is at the heart of raising kids who know the sanctity of life: The witness of moms and dads who are utterly and unequivocally committed to protecting human life from conception until natural death.
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“I have been able to show God’s love through my care. I pray for my patients and I truly empathize with them in a deep way.”
~ Gabi Reinoehl, nurse in training
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“Let no one despise your youth, but set the believers an example…” (1 Tim 4.12).
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“Is this not in large measure what it means to belong to a family: to burden each other — and to find, almost miraculously, that others are willing, even happy, to carry such burdens?”
~ Gilbert Meilaender
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“Franciscans of Spain, they were sent to the Muslim kingdom of Granada in order to try and evangelize the inhabitants and were predictably killed.”
~ Basil Watkins
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“She would of been a good woman,” The Misfit said, “if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life.”
~ Flannery O’Connor
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“The guards told us they’d never seen people
who lived their religion the way we do.”
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“I know that, if I do what I think God wants me to do,
he will take care of my family.”
~ Bl. Franz Jägerstätter
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“Sickness before death is a very appropriate thing, and I think those who don’t have it miss one of God’s mercies.
~ Flannery O’Connor
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“As far as possible parents have the duty of choosing schools that will best help them in their task as Christian educators” (CCC 2229).
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