The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-05-24
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THE EUCHARIST: THE BOND OF
FAMILY UNITY.

A family life built up on these prin-
ciples is a life that will surely be
passed in the love and fear of God. 1t
will not be exempt from fault; it may
be tried by illness, by sorrow, by
temporal misfortunes; it may be
rudely disturbed and rendered incom-
plete, here below at least, by the hand
of death, but it will still possess the
essentials of interior peace and resig-
nation, no matter what trials may
assail it. There will be no place in
lives so ruled and ordered by Our
Lord Himself for the crimes and sins
which are destroying family life in so
many nations, the violation Of the true
conditions of conjugal life, the seeking
of pleasure and qualification even to
the breaking of the marriage VOWS.
Respect for mutual rights, charity and
forbearance in asserting individual
claims, respect for parental authority,
and respect, no less, for the inviolable
independence of children in those
matters where it prevails, all these
things will come into existence, as it
were, spontaneously, when father and
mother and children are gathered fire.
quently around the table of their Lord.
Regeneration of Society.
Nowhere, then, should loyal whole
hearted acceptance and observance of
the Papal DEGREES on early and fire.
quent Holy Communion be more
strongly urged than on those about to
enter the holy estate of marriage, for
in their control, as far as their
opportunities extend, lies the ultimate
regeneration of society. And, if there
be some, who hear or read the words
utter today, and who looking back on
many years of married life with still
unrealised hopes of a happy future
such as they conceived in the early
days of union, let them not lose heart.
The source of strength and mutual
support is still at their disposal. Let
them give now to our Divine Master
that place in their united lives which
He would gladly have occupied from
the beginning, if they had made Him
their ever-welcome Guest. They can
turn to Him now in sorrow for their
past remissness and neglect; they can
acknowledge to Him the mistakes and
mischances of their lives; they can
beg of Him the guidance that they
need. And most surely He, the Son
of Mary and the Foster-Son of Joseph,
who in His own Divine Person and in
the persons of those most nearly and
closely associated with Him has given
to us the perfect example of family
life, will bestow upon all those who
look to Him for support and consola-
ton by approaching Him constantly in
the Sacrament of His love, the grace
to keep His law ever before their eyes
and to imprint it deeply on their chill
dren's hearts, and to pass it on un-
sullied and intact to all the genera
lions that shall come after them.
Blessed are all they that fear the
Lord, that walk in His ways. For thou
shalt eat the labors of thy hands: and
it shall be well with thee. Thy wife
as fruitful vine on the sides of thy
house; thy children as olive plants
round about thy table. Behold thus
shall the man be blessed that feareth
the Lord. May the Lord bless thee
out of Sion, and mayest thou see the
good things of Israel all the days of
thy life. And mayest thou see thy
children's children, peace upon Israel.
Ps. 127.