Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1906-02-05
BISHOP CoNATY breaches ON
MODEL HOMES
Fathers Must Answer to God for the
Welfare Of Their FIocks.
carelessness Is the
Curse

mass.
An elaborate musical program was
rendered under the direction OF Rev.
T. II. Fahey, Franz Wits mass being
sung. Tom Karl, well known tenor,
sang an ave Maria"
Bishop Conaty said In part:
I'm divine Providence the home
was created, having in it the father
and the mother, with children taught
to know and love God and help one the
other to the happiness of human life.
In the home the foundations of life
are laid and upon those foundations
depend the future of the Individual
and the state. The family Is the
nursery of the state. It's goodness
means the good life of the citizen, its
failure means danger to the state.
The world today is apt to forget
that the family Is a divine institution,
coming from the very mind of God
who decreed that man was not to be
help unto himself. The family is the
first, the state follows. The family is
the true and perfect society with rights
and duties. The state is a creation of
the family and participate in the fam
lily rights and privileges only insomuch
as the family gives them. The state
is but a gathering of families and is
built to maintain and defend family
rights but not to give them. 1t is
only when the individual family fails
to do it's duty that the state, In pro-
lection of other families, as also in
protection of the individuals neglected,
takes the place Of those who have
proved recreant to their duties.
Needs Lesson
1.-THE world needs to learn the les
son today that it is through marriage
that the family is properly established
and that marriage is not only the
means by which children are brought
to the knowledge of God and to the
Natural 1--we existing between husband
and wife receives through the Christ
ian sacrament a strength that makes it
possible to overcome the difficulties
of life and to give to human love an
unselfishness and a power that lasts
beyond death. st. Paul compares 1t to
the love of Christ for his church and
calls marriage great sacrament in
Christ and in the church. The world
seems to look upon the marriage tie as
the within of passing moment, a mere
ly personal interest, a social advance
ment or the outgrowth of temporary
affection. All thes strip marriage of all
at its very source. Marriage is more
than personal qualification or So
cial contract 1t is sacrament for the
Christian and Is indissoluble because
God, so wills 1t and because of it's
relation to social unity and not because
1t is a contract to be broken at will Of
parties.
There is nothing in life more beau
tiful than the home built upon the di
vine plan, following the example of the
holy family and realizing that Nazar-
eth is the model home in life. Christ
who came to redeem us saw fit to enter
an earthly home and to be born a
member of a. human family. Father,
mother. and child, form a trinity, the
most perfect that human love can
cherish and the one source of stabil-
ity to human society and happiness.
Sense of sanctity
1.-The family today is apt to lose it's
sense of capacity and realize only a
father for the mother and child, the
mother love for children and husband,
the obedience of the one to the other
and of all to God, the reverence and re-
spect OF each for all and all for each,
the desire to follow Gods divine law
and to follow Gods designs, form the
responsibilities of family.
THE husband and father is the head
of the family. His dignity is a re-
sponsible one. He must answer to God
for the welfare of his family and by his
labor must acquire the means by which
the home shall prove to be the dearest
place for those who should be loved by
him. The wife Is not mans servant.
She is the sharer of his loves, his COM
panion and helpmate, the mother of his
children, and shares with him the re-
sponstbilities of the home. "a prudent
wife," says the scripture, lis properly
from the Lord" A good woman is
Gods best gift to her husband. Too
many men cast all the care of child
hood on the mother.
People seem to assume the respon-
sibility of home without striving to
find what that responsibility means.
Hasty Marriages
They rush hastily into marriages
which have little of God in them. They
fail to recognize that the very atmO-
sphere of happy home is the atmos-
phere that comes from religion. The
practice of religion is as essential to
good family life as food and clothing.
The teaching of religion to the child,
the training of him in the little prac-
tees of piety, the leading of his mind
to the truth of God and the training
of his life to the practices of religion,
form the beauty of home life realizing
its duty to childhood. Christian par
ents should have an intelligent knowl-
edge of religion. They should know its
precepts and study it's history. They
should be faithful to home prayers and
to the sacraments of the church. They
should walk in the way in which they
teach their children and should not
only impress upon them their religious
duties, but should rather lead them to
the church and train them to follow
them.
1.-The curse of society today is In the
carelessness of parents who bring
children into the world and then fail
in their responsibility toward them.
The source of much of the crime of
today is in the bad family life in
which parents neglect their duties to
one another, violate the sacredness of
their marriage obligations, neglect
their children and allow them to grow
UP with little or no knowledge of the
responsibility to God"