Big Brother is nervous...

...about homeschooling.

Don't forget that the Church insists on the right of parents to educate their children:

The family therefore holds directly from the Creator the mission and hence the right to educate the offspring, a right inalienable because inseparably joined to the strict obligation, a right anterior to any right whatever of civil society and of the State, and therefore inviolable on the part of any power on earth.

Pius XI, Divini Illius Magistri

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The Gift of Fear

Some thoughts from Douglas McManaman on "The Gift of Fear":

"But it was during these years that I began to realize just what a gift the fear of God really is, even the very rudiments of servile fear. For these kids were already involved in some of the worst crimes, and they were committed to a criminal lifestyle, but they had no fear of divine repercussion."

There is a saying in philosophy: everything is received according to the mode of the receiver. When some souls have hardened themselves completely to the call of God's love, it may be fear of His punishment that will break their hardness and form the cracks through which grace can seep.

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Health and Consequences

I saw an ad for the American Heart Association today:

“Eat right. Exercise. Don’t smoke – and live.”

Hate to break it to them, but if you do all that, what’s actually going to happen is that you will die just like everyone else. Sure, you might be healthier – you certainly will be less healthy if you eat poorly, don’t exercise, and smoke like a chimney – but you might still become gravely unhealthy anyway, and you most definitely will still die.

Taking care of our bodies is a responsibility; but health was made for man, not man for health; and that in the end death comes anyway. In light of that inevitability, spiritual health is far more important. So my advice is,

"Eat Christ's Body. Pray. Don't Sin -- and live forever."


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