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Lay Celibacy, Epiphany Blessing & Child Labor
Epiphany Blessing Saves Man’s House from Fires
His house was the only one standing in his neighborhood.
A friend of the owner explains here in a very convincing way what was made for the miracle to take place.
It is certainly an example to be followed.
In Jesu et Maria,
S.B.
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It is a Disaster or an Agenda?
The process of closing churches does not stop.
Read this news:
St. Charles Borromeo in Visalia
Catholic churches have faced declining attendance in 2024 amidst aging infrastructure and financial instability. The low attendance has led church leaders to begin shuttering dozens of parishes. The Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore plans to reduce its parishes from 61 to 23.
I don’t know how the Conciliar Church has the shamelessness of calling this a “springtime.” It is not springtime, it is the breath of death that touches it. Nonetheless, the religious authorities continue to push their reforms.
For me it is clear that they are not well-intended. They actually are out there to destroy the Catholic Church. They are infiltrated enemies…
P.M.
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Children Work – The Good Side
Ave Maria Purissima !
In this delightful photograph, we see orphan girls of the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary put to work in Cochin, India. The caption tells us that “nimble little fingers make the bobbins leap” so clearly the younger they are the more productive they are. The girls are well disciplined and docile and attentive to their duty, except for one little one in the front who cannot resist a look at the camera. The older ones display their sodality ribbons and medals and all in all this is a very p[productive scene with all attending to their duty diligently.
Child labor is still rife in India and very much a part of their culture. I believe the poor have a right to put their children to work if indeed, this work improves the family fortunes or if it is essential to pay off a debt. I think in the West we are far too concerned about the rights of the child and not enough about the duties of the child to contribute to the wellbeing of the family. Children are simply better at many jobs in the textile industry and clearly do not impose the costs on hard pressed employers that adults do, The money earned by children in India contributes greatly to the financial stability of the family.
Children work in India for many reasons. A child may be given to an employer to work for a period of years to pay off a family debt. A poor family who cannot afford to give their daughter a dowry may send a younger child to work in her husband’s home instead. Such children gain little benefit from education, in particular the type of non-vocational education provided in most schools. They are considerably better off in gainful employment and the vast majority of children of this class prefer work to school. This is an uncomfortable truth which many in society will not recognize.
In England up until the 1940s 13-year-old orphan girls were sent to work in domestic service. One girl related she retired at night at 10 pm rising at 5 am to begin her duties. She spent 8 years as a scullery maid before earning a promotion. Her duties included all the work around the kitchen: Black leading the big ranges, scrubbing the tiled floors, cleaning the cutlery, preparing the vegetables, hand washing clothes, sewing and mending uniforms. … Despite all of this she confessed herself happy for those 8 years and finally she was promoted to the position of upstairs maid.
If we worried less about child labor and more about the complete waste of money in providing free education for large sectors of society who simply waste it and are not suited to academic learning, we would be better off. If children need to work at an early age for the greater good of their family, they should be allowed do it.
God bless you TIA.
Yours sincerely,
C.P., Ireland
Posted January 16, 2024
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Ave Maria!
Please convey to Atila my profuse appreciation for his rebuttal to Bishop Williamson, Part 1 (here).
As a lifelong single laywoman his words deeply encourage me; his depth of understanding and his support for the legitimacy of the single lay state is rare. Buttressed with historical citations and his reminder of the glorious path exemplified by Virgin Saints, male and female, all was deeply welcomed by me.
Yes, I have met what he has described not only among the SSPX but within the circle of other “Trads” which invariably left me feeling as if my state in life was but an unfortunate mistake, a by-product of the times or maybe even an insinuation of it being my fault.
Reading Atila’s words left me holding my head higher and closer upon the breast of Jesus knowing God foresaw and chose within His Holy Will. It also pleased me greatly that Atila mentioned Saint Catherine of Siena in his examples of illustrious lay Saints.
You see, hers is the very name and she is the very Saint I specifically chose at Confirmation (and I was privileged to have been Confirmed before the Vatican’s “reforms” which meant we received soon after our First Holy Communion). How I smile now because I distinctly recall as a child being drawn into and totally captivated by her life’s account. In preparation for making my choice which I took very seriously, I read hers and that of the ‘other Catherine’ in the convent, namely, Saint Catherine of Laboure, deciding as a child to identify with and embrace the one from Siena! Only today, upon reading Atila’s words, did I recognize that in so doing, I had chosen at that young age the one who remained as a laywoman. That realization alone brought me peace.
Thank you!
Continued prayers for your safety from the smoke and fires in L.A.,
E.A.C.Z, Ph.D.