What We Owe Our Children

Todays' passage from Deuteronomy (Dt 4: 5-9) reminds us of our obligation as elders, parents, teachers, to remember our own faith-histories with their many stories, as well to pass them on and the faith-stories of our tradition to the young.  This should be done in families, and not just left to the schools and parishes.  Conversations in the natural setting of the home,  beginning when children are young, help them to understand that what they will later learn in the classroom or CCD or the pulpit, has actually been lived.  The large issues of forgiveness, love, respect, honesty, compassion, kindness can and must be shown in action if they are to be accepted and adopted by the young.  We are aware that "kids don't miss a thing" when out of the blue a word we have said, a story we have told comes back to us out of their mouths.
Bro. Rene