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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Marriage Is About Formation, Not Just Babies
- The fruitfulness of marital love includes moral and spiritual formation, not just procreation.
- Parents must prioritize raising persons and saints, not only producing children.
Parents As Irreplaceable Primary Educators
- Parents are the primary educators and no adequate substitute exists for their role.
- Schools and teachers can help, but cannot replace parental moral and spiritual formation.
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.
