The following is taken from the article A Home Where Vocations Grow: 12 Things Parents Can Do from the Lent Issue of :the Word Among Us
"Want to help your children discern whether they're called to religious life, or to married or single life in the world?"
1. Talk with your kids about their gifts and abilities and the importance of their contribution to the church and the world.
2. Pray for vocations as a family-for singles, married couples, priests and religious.
3. Avoid disparaging remarks about marriage and the single life or those in religious life.
4. Build your marriage.
5. Spend quiet time with the Lord.
6. Keep learning about your faith.
7. Introduce your children to the lives of saints.
8. Look for good vocation stories.
9. Volunteer as a family for a service project.
10. Give your children freedom.
11. Eat dinner together.
12. Trust God.
2 comments:
I wonder why they don't list "smack your wife's bottom as often as she walks by you in the kitchen so your kids can see" or "when you kiss your wife make sure you make really sloppy kissy noises so as to scandalize your 9 year old who hates kissy stuff"...oh, I see, it's under number 4! Heehee, I just love that guy of mine!
Laura ;-)
Post a Comment