How beautiful is the family that recites the Rosary every evening.
Interpretation
The quote highlights the beauty and unity of family prayer through the Rosary.
Pope John Paul II expresses the significance of family togetherness through the act of reciting the Rosary each evening. This practice symbolizes not only the spiritual bond among family members but also the shared values and strength that come from participating in such a meaningful tradition, fostering love and support within the family unit.
In practice
Sharing this quote during a family gathering to emphasize the importance of unity.
True freedom is not advanced in the permissive society, which confuses freedom with license to do anything whatever and which in the name of freedom proclaims a kind of general amorality. It is a caricature of freedom to claim that people are free to organize their lives with no reference to moral values, and to say that society does not have to ensure the protection and advancement of ethical values. Such an attitude is destructive of freedom and peace.
Like so many pilgrims before us, we kneel in wonder and adoration before the ineffable mystery which. was accomplished here... In This Child - the Son who is given to us - we find rest for our souls and the true bread that never fails - the Eucharistic Bread foreshadowed even in the name of this town: Bethlehem, the house of bread. God lies hidden in the Child; divinity lies hidden in the Bread of Life
And everything else will then turn out to be unimportant and inessential except this: father, child, and love. And then, looking at the simplest things, we will all say, Could we have not learned this long ago? Has this not always been embedded in everything that is?
Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.
Man matures through work which inspires him to difficult good.
United with the angels and saints of the heavenly Church, let us adore the most Holy Sacrament of the Eucharist. Prostrate, we adore this great mystery that contains God's new and definitive covenant with humankind in Christ.
The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.
It seems like just yesterday my son was hiding under the table to avoid reading. Now, he's writing books longer than mine!
A grandmother's special calling is to pray and to be a fellow worker in the battle in which her children or her grandchildren are engaged.
I finally understand / for a woman it ain't easy tryin to raise a man / You always was committed / A poor single mother on welfare, tell me how ya did it / There's no way I can pay you back / But the plan is to show you that I understand / You are appreciated
I'd been upstaged, demoted from protagonist in my own drama to comic relief in my parents' tragedy
My mother was a reader, and she read to us. She read us Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde when I was six and my brother was eight; I never forgot it.
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