We recently welcomed the birth of our second daughter who is named after the mother of St. Thérèse of Lisieux. In thanksgiving for a healthy delivery (and overall lack of sleep), here’s some powerful saintly quotes on parenthood:
“When a child is given to his parents, a crown is made for that child in Heaven, and woe to the parents who raise a child without consciousness of that eternal crown!”
-Ven. Fulton Sheen
“The history of mankind, the history of salvation, passes by way of the family. The family is placed at the center of the great struggle between good and evil, between life and death, between love and all that is opposed to love.”
-St. John Paul II
“In children we have a great charge committed to us. Let us bestow great care upon them, and do everything that the Evil One may not rob us of them.”
-St. John Chrysostom
“Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do… but how much love we put in that action.”
-(soon to be) St. Teresa of Calcutta
“When I closed the eyes of my dear little children and when I buried them, I felt great pain, but it was always with resignation. I didn’t regret the sorrows and the problems I had endured for them. Several people said to me, ‘It would be better to never have had them.’ I can’t bear that kind of talk. I don’t think the sorrows and problems could be weighed against the eternal happiness of my children. So they weren’t lost forever. Life is short and full of misery. We’ll see them again in Heaven. Above all, it was on the death of my first child that I felt more deeply the happiness of having a child in Heaven, for God showed me in a noticeable way that He accepted my sacrifice. Through the intercession of my little angel, I received a very extraordinary grace”
-St. Zélie Martin, on her miscarriages (Letter 72)
We’re excited as our family grows and we get back to speaking and traveling soon. Thank you for your prayers!
