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Topic: family
Prayer
Prayer for Moms and Dads
Pour into us unimaginable love and ready us
to nurture the children You entrust to our care.
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“Give my love and greetings to all the sisters, and say that I wish them every good thing which they themselves desire...”
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“...I have paid more than sixty thousand francs (on the motherhouse), besides supplying the wants of the one hundred and thirty persons who compose our family. How, are we not daughters of Providence?”
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“When a fault is committed in your house, examine seriously before God whether you yourself are not the cause.”
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“Be joyful, amiable toward each other. Have nothing on your conscience to trouble you.”
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“Oh, if you could understand the feelings of a mother's heart for a child which is not hers by nature but by grace - the feelings of the heart, I say for the temporal but more especially for the eternal happiness of her child - you would understand what I feel for you.”
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“Never scold nor punish more than the fault deserves. Children naturally love justice even when it punishes them.”
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“Woman in this country is only yet one-fourth of the family. I hope that, through the influence of religion and education, she will eventually become at least one half — the "better half."”
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