The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) Day 288: The Duties of Parents (2025)
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Oct 15, 2025 Parenthood is a profound journey beyond just having children. Parents are seen as primary educators, responsible for nurturing virtues and prayers at home. Fr. Mike emphasizes the importance of humility, confession, and self-mastery as core values in family life. He stresses early catechesis and church involvement to cultivate a living faith. The discussion also highlights parental rights in education choices and the necessary balance of supporting adult children’s autonomy while guiding them.
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Build A Virtue-Centered Home
- Create a home where tenderness, forgiveness, respect, fidelity, and disinterested service are the rule.
- Use the home as the natural place to teach self-denial, sound judgment, and self-mastery.
Freedom Needs Virtue Apprenticeship
- Apprenticeship in self-denial, sound judgment, and self-mastery are preconditions for true freedom.
- True freedom grows through practiced virtue in family life.
Admit Failures And Model Repair
- Acknowledge your failings to your children and show them where you turn for forgiveness.
- Use confession and asking forgiveness as teaching moments for humility and conversion.
