What did some people think in the 1940's

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I love old books.  I go into Salvation Army's, Vincent St. Paul's and other odds and ends places with stuff.  I love finding books from the past that show how different the world was before.  In one area of the book it states that religion is not only a Sunday deal, it should be in the morning, evening and just a way of life.  Every waking moment you should wake up to do good acts of moral distinction and virtue.  When you get into a good habit of doing this everyday we can lead an ideal Christian life.  With this type of teaching is not only for one religion it can be for anyone at all.

There is another that talks about children in the family unit where it talks about supreme authority.

"The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof, the world and all those who dwells there in"
-Psalms 23:1

Notes from the book written by Anthony J.  Flynn,  Vincent Loretto, and Mary Simeon, Living Our Faith. published in New York, Chicago by W.H. Sadlier in print 1945

The subsections give off shoot references to: 

• Sharers in Gods authority - God has given to the family, the duty of rearing and educating human beings.  We all need to work together as a family unit to help with the child's spiritual growth, proper development, and safety to them. There is no rule book to being a parent.  We all do what we have learned as well.  Doing our best in light and love is all we can do. 

• A child's part - Parents have a right to command, children have a duty to obey. Not all parents are brought up to do the right things. As we are all part of a higher calling from our Higher power, whom ever it may be, step up.  All children need guidance that is safe from harm.

• Honoring parents - Honor is defined as "esteem founded on worth".  . . .and they are to labor and sacrifice in fulfilling their duties.  Obedience, love and support are required by the Fourth Commandment.  There are many kids that don't feel that listening to their parents is right.  Their words are not heard and feel alone in their plight of growing to be adults.  Even after we are adult there are many that continue to not honor parent because of bad things that have happened.  We are all humans with problems.   Work them out.  They have lived and have wisdom in their years.

• Respect for parents - From our parents we have received our bodies, unending care, protection, food, clothing, home, education and above all the opportunities of knowing God in the true religion of receiving the sacraments.

• Sins of disrespect - it is wrong to disrespect your parents if you listen and don't care or don't care to listen.  Don't strike your parents out of anger or disrespect, seriously to insult or ridicule them and to refuse through shame to recognize them in public are all serious offenses.  In just that part alone, we can see how far off we have gone.  So many kids just do what they want no matter who they hurt.  Striking in anger either way, parent to kid or kid to parent, is wrong.  Could life ever get back to a 40's understanding of respect?

• Love - is willing and a good thing. True love is tender and constant.  It manifest itself in a million little acts of thoughtfulness, care and loving consideration

• Obedience - right order, without which the world would be in constant confusion.  It is the duty of children to listen to their parents. As with most parents I know, we only want the best for them and usually better than what we had.  There is an order not kid to parent but parent to kid.

• Sins of disobedience - When a child disobeys a truly serious command concerning which the parent issued a strict order, disobedience on the part of the child is a mortal sin. That just sounds scary.  I am sorry but fear is no way to gain respect.  Learn to do the right thing because now jail time for every the littlest words uttered can bring greater problems with your life.  I truly have issues with fear as being a catalyst to help others listen.  Fear of consequences to a person freedom which we should all enjoy can surely be limited.

• Other authorities  - In the book it states that children should listen to other parents or those whom are there to care for them, such as guardians, older sisters and brothers.  School is an extension of home not a replacement for it.  Teachers can help give loving guidance to those who do not have proper guidance at home.  Give it up for those who teach!

• Support - or duty to ones parents includes the obligation of providing for both material and spiritual needs.  If the parent cannot live up to those needs the child needs to help and take that responsibility on their own. We all need a little help once in a while and parents are no exception.  We don't have all the answers and the bumps in the road can be many when we have a family.  Sometimes a little understanding can go a long way.

Just these simple notes from an old book is easy to at look and understand.  You don't need to take the whole paragraph in context to get commonsense meaning out of what the authors were trying to say.  Many people look at each word as Gospel.  Not every part of the paragraphs work for everyone because it was written from a bias viewpoints of what they believed in.  A universal truth can be seen  as well because sometimes we don't need look so deep into it.

What kinds of virtues does a person have?  There are two, natural and supernatural in nature. How many times is there a dilemma that good virtue of a person is needed.

Negative experiences create a vicious cycle for a person by pushing into pessimistic thinking, overreaction of events and it pushes our minds into a cloudy gray abyss of negativity.

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