Christian family
How should a father react when his teenage daughter informs him that she is pregnant? My impulse would be to beat my breast and say, “My darling daughter, forgive me for not knowing how to love you. Forgive me for being unable to show you my love. Forgive me for my part in prompting you to seek love in that fellow’s bed.” All too often the matter is that simple: in the absence of fatherly love, the girl has looked for proof of her lovability elsewhere
Dear husbands and wives! These days there is a great need for married couples to cooperate intensively with Jesus. By joining the Movement of Pure Hearts for Married Couples you have decided to open yourselves daily to that great treasure, which is Jesus Himself in the Sacrament of Marriage. He is the sole source of your love, the one guarantor of your growth to perfect happiness in heaven. Accept His love wholeheartedly in daily prayer and the sacraments, that you may bestow this love on each other, your children, and others. Jesus wants to keep your marital relations healthy, to teach you mutual forgiveness, that your life together may be a banquet of true love. To become members of the Movement of Pure Hearts, all you have to do is go to sacramental confession, receive Jesus in Holy Communion, and say the following prayer of consecration:
Below are excerpts from letters sent to our editorial office by couples who have decided to join MPHMC.
“Suffering accepted and borne together with others is joy”
I come from a strongly believing family. At home I never lacked for warmth, love or prayer. My parents (especially my mother) instilled in me the truths of the faith, taught me to know right and wrong, and showed me the way to God. It is to them, mainly, that I attribute my strong character.
