CHRIST IN THE HOME
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BY RAOUL PLUS, S.J.
a Translation from the French
FREDERICK PUSTET CO., INC. Publishers NEW YORK AND
CINCINNATI
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JOHN M. A. FEARNS, S.T.D., Censor Librorum
Imprimatur:
+FRANCIS CARDINAL SPELLMAN,
Archbishop of New York
New York, June 19, 1951
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COPYRIGHT, 1951, IN UNITED STATES AND GREAT BRITAIN BY FREDERICIC
BUSTET CO., INC. Third Printing Printed in U.S.A. Biblical Quotations
have been checked with the Confraternity Edition of the New Testament
and the Douay Version of the Old Testament.
TO JESUS, MARY, AND JOSEPH THE HOLY FAMILY THAT THEY MAY OBTAIN FOR
THE WORLD THE GRACE OF MANY FAMILIES WHO KEEP CHRIST IN THE HOME
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface
INTRODUCTORY READINGS
The Saint of Modern Times
Sanctity of the Laity
Fantasy or Sacred Duty
My Personal Vocation
What Kind of Soul Am I?
MARRIAGE [Section 1]
Before Embarking (1)
Before Embarking (2)
Requisites for a Happy Marriage
A Proposal
The End of Love?
One Only Being
Love
The Palace of Chance
Infinity Promised
The Nuptial Liturgy
The Wedding Day
Total Union
The Four Bonds of Conjugal Union
Life Together Is Difficult
Loving Each Other In God
Supernatural Love
United Striving for Sanctity
Ideals for Marriage
One Heart, One Soul
Marriage and the Bible (1)
Man Born of Slime
Some Feminine Traits
Marriage and the Bible (2)
Conjugal Duty
Motherhood
Is Birth-Control Permissible?
Why Have a Large Family?
The Bell of Life
The Impossibility of Having Children?
The Only Child
Christ and Marriage
Marriage and Baptism
Respect in Love
Marriage and the Mystical Body
Mutual Devotedness
Woman's Superiority
The Boss in the House
Marriage and the Eucharist (1)
Marriage and the Eucharist (2)
Strange Profanation
Marriage and the Eucharist (3)
Marriage and Sacrifice
A Mystic Moral Bond
A Father's Answer to His Daughter
Transported Together
Single Though Two
Marriage and the Priesthood (1)
Marriage and the Priesthood (2)
Masculine Treason
Marriage and the Counsels (1)
Marriage and the Counsels (2)
Marriage and Vows
The Social Ideal
THE HOME [Section 2]
Great Adventurers
The Psalm of Young Mothers
Up to Date
Paternal Solicitude
The Family
Heredity
Parental Responsibility
The Family Spirit
"The Whole Sea"
Homelife
The Family Table
Strange Profanation
A Christian Setting
Judicious Economy
The Providential Role of Insecurity
The Snuffbox
Estranged Parents
The Womanly Ideal
Her Husband's Helper
Good Sense
Women and Education
Endurance
Unbearable Husbands
Unbearable Wives
The Counsels of Madame Elizabeth
Woman, The Strength of Man
Is Genius Celibate?
The Power of a Smile
A Devastating Disposition
Man's Virtues versus Woman's Virtues
Man's Fidelity
A Wife with Character
Praiseworthy Vanity
A Director's Counsels
Friendly Argument
Feminine Faults
The Psychology of a Mother
Courageous Mothers
Courageous Fathers
A Mother's Zeal
Domestic Help
Love Out of Bounds
The Folly of Love Out of Bounds
The Prayer of the Married
Prayer Together
Prayer for Each Other
Marriage and a Life of Prayer
Choice Graces
TRAINING [Section 3]
The First Years
Love for Children
From Three to Five
The Art of Giving Children Faults
The Untimely Laugh
Love versus Maternal Instinct
Training in Obedience
Children Who Command
Training in Docility
Intelligence and Firmness in a Mother
Picture Study
Impartiality
Difficulties of Christian Education
Supernatural Mothers
Education to the Supernatural (1)
Education to the Supernatural (2)
Education to the Supernatural (3)
Jesus and the Child
The Father Who Doesn't Pray
Table Prayers
Children and Christmas
Eucharistic Education (1)
Eucharistic Education (2)
Eucharistic Education (3)
Eucharistic Education (4)
Eucharistic Education (5)
Training to Purity (1)
Training to Purity (2)
Training to Purity (3)
Training to Purity (4)
Reading
Training of the Emotions
The Child and Laziness
Lazy Children
Training in Sincerity (1)
Training in Sincerity (2)
Training in Sincerity (3)
Honesty and Tact
Is Self-Accusation Obligatory?
Training to Confidence
All My Faith
Formation of Character (1)
Formation of Character (2)
Formation of Character (3)
Education in Reverse
Important Nevers
Training the Adolescent
Girls versus Boys (1)
Girls versus Boys (2)
A Father's Letter
Misunderstood Children
A Defaulting Father
A Mother to Her Son
Tick Tock
Training in Generosity
Mothers and Vocations
Priests in the Family
The Mother of a Saint
Parents of Saints
Training in Charity
Training in Social Responsibility (1)
Training in Social Responsibility (2)
Training in Social Responsibility (3)
Training in Social Responsibility (4)
The Family and the School
The Secularism of Christians
Family Affections
The Hierarchy of Duties
PREFACE
A HOME ruled by the spirit of Christ is a happy home. It is also a
school of virtue directed to spiritual transformation in Christ.
But Christ does not force His entry into a home. He enters only by
invitation. He remains only when evidently welcome.
It is the wise bride and groom who let Him know by their spiritual
preparation for marriage that they want Him to accompany them from
the altar of their vows into the home they are about to establish. It
is the wise husband and wife who let Him know they want Him always
present by striving to put on His mind and to establish their family
according to His principles.
In such a home, husband and wife and children will enjoy gladness of
heart, happiness in the fulfillment of duty, and intense union of souls.
The strength and honor of the family come above all from within, from
union with Christ which gives power to manifest in daily living the
beautiful family virtues of patience, energy, generosity,
forbearance, cheerfulness, and mutual reverence with their consequent
effect of peace and contentment.
This book is an invitation to the married or those about to marry, to
spend the interior effort required to unite them solidly in Christ
and to make them worthy transmitters of the Christ-life to their
family. It is an invitation to fulfill the high purpose of their
marriage which is to help each other to sanctity and to rear saints
for heaven; to possess Christ themselves as completely as possible
and to give Christ to their children.
Now sanctity is the result of personal cooperation with grace. It is
no passive attainment. Equally true is it that spiritual truths and
principles merely known but not realized are of little force in
stimulating spiritual energy and effort. Consequently this book of
spiritual readings makes no attempt to present fully developed
meditations. It is not to be a substitute for personal reflection and
prayer. Its various topics are presented as points of departure into
deeper realms of thought and prayer; by the personal following
through of the ideas offered, conviction and realization will be
achieved and lives transformed. A stronger bond of communication will
be established between the soul and God resulting in real prayer and
not prayers said. The affections made will be the outpouring of the
individual's response to God and not someone else's pre-planned
expression of what that response ought to be.
The essential thing is to talk over the subjects with God. It is
important then to enter into His Presence before each reading by a
reverent act of recollection; to beg His light to see the truth and
His strength to act on conviction and realization. It is important to
see; it is more important to will.
The points offered for prayerful consideration are not meant to carry
the reader into the clouds of elevated speculation and theory but
rather to direct the soul to study prayerfully the daily, common,
routine elements of his life in order to lift them out of possible
monotony and deadening repetition into the challenging and absorbing
adventure of making them divine.
This book in no way presumes to replace what should be for all
Christians the two essential meditation books--the Gospels and the
Missal. In fact, it presupposes that its readers are Christians
accustomed to live in the spirit of Our Lord's life according to the
rhythm of the liturgy. It endeavors to provide variety and to bring
into practical application some of the lessons hidden in the Gospels
or the Missal.
Of vital importance is it, no matter what the meditation book, to
draw from the little that one reads a maximum of nourishment for the
soul. That is not impossible. All one need do is to beg God for His
grace and to co-operate with the grace that He gives.
Such a manifestation of good will is a sincere invitation to Christ
and a convincing proof that He is welcome in your life.
CHRIST WILL ENTER YOUR HOME
HE WILL REMAIN TO DWELL WITH YOU
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Lord, may everything we do begin with Your inspiration and continue
with Your help,
so that all our prayers and works may begin in You and by You be happily ended.
We ask this through Christ our Lord.
Amen.
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