Monday, October 22, 2012

May You Live to See Your Children’s Children

 

FROM THE ARCHIVES OF NEW OXFORD REVIEW

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May You Live to See... 

 Let the first child come early in marriage, and subsequent children as nature directs. The teaching of the Catholic Church is sound in this matter in counseling confidence that God will provide. The marriage blessed with children who mature and become parents themselves is rightly celebrated in Psalm 128: “May you share the

English:

English: "Make them known unto thy children and thy children's children." Deuteronomy 4:9. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 prosperity of Jerusalem all the days of your life, and live to see your children’s children!” And Psalm 37: “I have been young and am now grown old, and never have I seen a righteous man forsaken. Day in, day out, he lends generously, and his children become a blessing.”

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http://www.newoxfordreview.org/article.jsp?did=1104-peterson

 

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