Posted on 07/18/2014 8:10:34 PM PDT by Salvation
Lifting up fathers even in all the difficulties they endure Ping.
This is just a puff piece really that offers no solutions and is too timid to even tackle what is destroying the family.
A Prayer for Fathers
No Better Gift for Father’s Day
Gift of Fatherhood: Kneel before the Father from Whom Every Family in Heaven on Earth is named
Fathers are important
Fathers
Fatherhood and Religion
The New Catholic Manliness (about priests)
Dads: Men for All Seasons
The Father of Fathers
On The Demise of Fatherhood
Father’s Day 2009: “An End to Buffoonish Fathers”
Of Treacheries, Tykes, and the Trinity (Fatherhood, Family, Effects of Abortion)
Priests and the importance of fatherhood [Catholic Caucus]
[OPEN] The Government, Divorce, and the War on Fatherhood
Study Shows Christianity Makes Men Better Husbands and Fathers
Study Shows Christianity Makes Men Better Husbands and Fathers (Open)
Honoring Thy Fathers
Priests of the Domestic Church: A Father's Day Homily
The Blueprint for Heroic Family Life [Fathers' Day] [Ecumenical]
Honoring Thy Fathers
A Father's Tough Love
Children Who Have An Active Father Figure Have Fewer Psychological And Behavioral Problems
Where Have All the Christian Men Gone? My Conversation with John Eldredge
The Transforming Power of Prayer [Part 1] (Catholic Man)
The Transforming Power of Prayer, Part 2 (Catholic Man)
The 10 Paradoxes of Fatherhood, There is a certain immediacy about motherhood that cannot
The Story of Champions [Father's Day]
What Makes a Man a Hero? [Father's Day]
The New Catholic Manliness
Applying St. Benedict's Rule to Fatherhood and Family Life - Using 6th-Century Wisdom Today
** Fathers are often entirely occupied by their work and give more wholehearted attention to their work than to their child, more to achievement than to gifts, and to the tasks implied by those gifts. But the loss of involvement of the father also causes grave inner damage to the sons” (God and the World, pp. 274-275).**
Hardly a puff piece when the worldly idols take first place over the family in my opinion.
Thanks for the link. I also posted some others too.
"Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI has laid out both the problem and a theological solution: the problem is prodigal fatherhood, i.e., fatherlessness, in various forms, and the solution is God the Father as our model for fatherhood—“the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named” (Eph. 3:14-15). "
Yeah, a bunch of spiritual sounding nonsense that lets people feel good about "doing something", while ignoring the very tangible legal problems that promote single motherhood.
Have you read any of Ratzinger’s works or his books that he wrote as Pope Benedict?
They are deep — he doesn’t write puff pieces.
aposiopetic is correct here.
Please look a little deeper (for the spiritual) as you re-read the piece.
The Left has been destroying the family for some time. It started with trashing fathers, then legalizing abortion, and now trying to replace traditional marriage with gay marriage. I don’t believe a civilization can survive without traditional marriage as the centerpiece and it certainly can’t be deemed to be a great civilization without it. Of course the Left will continue its march to destroy marriage in order to destroy the national sovereignty of the United States.
Matthew 23:9 And do not call anyone on earth ‘father,’ for you have one Father, and he is in heaven.
When you combine Matthew 23:9 with the statement in the article “His answer is not punishment, showing them who is boss, new skills, or even loving them. It is getting them to love you. He often asks, “When did your child give you his/her heart?”
That says it all. When did we give our heart to God our Father? That is commandment #1 in Jesus reply to the Pharisees as to the order of importance of the commandments.
I clicked on the link, The 10 Paradoxes of Fatherhood, There is a certain immediacy about motherhood that cannot. In that article, I found Galatians 4:6 quoted as follows:
“We are children of God by adoption. By the gift of the Holy Spirit we are able to cry ‘Abba, Father.’”
That just didn’t seem right, so I checked a couple of Bibles. Here’s how that passage reads in the Douay-Rheims:
4:6. And because you are sons, God hath sent the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying: Abba, Father.
And in the King James:
4:6 And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
It seems pretty different to me. I wonder what Bible the author was using.
Oh, BTW, thanks again for making yourself such a fantastic reference librarian.
Maybe it is because I grew up in a dysfunctional family, but it seems to me we celebrate the Father at least every Sunday in the form of the Eucharist? It is at that time my heart, my soul does cry out for Abba, my Father.
Yes, I do understand the point of this piece as I lived that fatherless type childhood. Our whole family would be very, very different today if my earthly Dad had practiced what he preached.
I adored my daddy. He passed when I was only 21. I STILL miss him so much!
He taught me how to deal with life, men and problems. He was so good.
All my friends were scared of him because he looked and sounded so intimidating.
That buffoonery was at its height with "MURPHY BROWN" and her ilk.
Dan Quayle was mocked RELENTLESSLY because he insisted on the importance of fathers. OF COURSE, he was correct, but that was during the "Power to the People" (1960's), Women's Liberation (1970's) and "Gay Pride" (1980's)...SUCH garbage!
*Aside from fathers spending up their entire LIFE to provide they do the following.
*Father's teach their daughters how to relate to men.
*They teach their daughters how to choose husbands and THEN how to relate to husbands.
*They teach their sons how to deal with adult male authority.
*BLACK fathers teach sons how to deal with adult male WHITE authority.
OF COURSE there are more things that fathers do. MY father was a "daddy."
From the Internet: When listening to a sermon on the Fatherhood of God, we've heard it more times than we can probably count: the illustration that when Jesus refers to his Father as abba, it is a very comfortable, deeply intimate child-like term, interpreted as either papa or daddy.
Jesus uses the term once in Mark's gospel and Paul uses it two times in Romans and Galatians.
It always amazed me how similar papa/dada and momma are ALL AROUND THE WORLD
Saudi Arabic:
Daddy: baba
Mother: um...though they ALL say umi," that is, "my mother." They add the "my" to the "mother" but don't have a "mommy" or "mama."
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