The Fifth Commandment

Honour your father and your mother

This fifth commandment still belongs to the first half of the law which concerns our duty to God.

For our parents, at least while we are children, stand towards us in loco Dei: they represent God’s authority.

Yet often it is in their own homes that people, young people especially, are at their most selfish and inconsiderate.

It is all too easy to be ungrateful and neglectful, and to fail to show our parents due respect and affection.

How often do we write to them or visit them? Or do they need financial support which we could give but deny them?


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