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The beautiful and spiritually enriching I Welcome Jesus book teaches love for Jesus by linking nine flowers with nine virtues the child is to practice before First Communion day. They may even wear a small corsage or boutonniere on that Special Day with these flowers to symbolize their efforts in creating their ‘Heart Garden’ to Welcome Jesus. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/601dedfcf17bd8180804d707/1616452598851-NTHHNGYQ9HE97WYFTN0O/An+Interlude-William+Sergeant+Kendall.jpg Home - A Study Guide to the Vatican Document on Teaching Human Sexuality Have fifty years of schoolroom classes about sexuality for our children and youth borne the good fruit of a more virtuous culture and a population that honors and respects human sexuality? The Vatican’s document returns this education in sexuality and formation for chastity to its rightful setting and source: individual education in the home, in private, by the parents. This Study and Discussion Guide will strengthen families by helping parents carry out their responsibilities and reestablish the right balance and relationship between them and the Catholic (or secular) school with regard to the sensitive matter of sex education. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/601dedfcf17bd8180804d707/1616453367646-8QG8WMBCCMUKV6J43XBT/Cana+photo+1.jpg Home - A Wine Blessing for the Wedding Feast Bring Jesus to your wedding reception, just as He honored the young couple at the Wedding Feast of Cana by His presence and the performing of His first public miracle. This free download contains a wine blessing ceremony that can be easily personalized for your use. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/601dedfcf17bd8180804d707/1616453585656-EMM4UC5CAG7UABXGWHJC/scott-webb-1ddol8rgUH8-unsplash.jpg Home - Bless Your Home! Sadly, we are all likely aware of the demonic influence upon our society in our present age. 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The discovery that the structure or Latin nomenclature of a species of plant or flower could be directly related to a truth about Christ, Mary, the Saints or Catholicism, fueled a desire to help others, including children, understand and appreciate these connections that greatly enrich our daily living and help keep us in a relationship of love with God. Carnation reminds us of the Incarnation: Latin carne = “flesh” and natio = “to be born.” Carnations have a spicy fragrance like cloves. Latin for clove is clavis = “nail” which individual cloves resemble. 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In fact, TMHS emphatically states that the child has a right to receive information regarding the intimate aspects of sexual information, whether biological or affective, in the home and compliant with his or her desire to be chaste and to be formed in chastity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/601dedfcf17bd8180804d707/1615652027622-TXEKBM78HTG246H4N78L/Christ+and+the+Young+Child-Carl+Heinrich+Bloch.jpg The Truth & Meaning of Human Sexuality “…but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened round his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea.” Matt 18:6 Since each child or young person must be able to live his or her own sexuality in conformity with Christian principles, and hence to be able to exercise the virtue of chastity, no educator – not even parents – can interfere with this right to chastity. TMHS 118 cf. Matt 18: 4-7 This right is further qualified by a child’s stage of development, his or her capacity to integrate moral truth with sexual information, and by respect for his or her modesty, sense of privacy, innocence and tranquility. TMHS 119 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/601dedfcf17bd8180804d707/1615660284302-NL8H75M0VJBLIXH9ZLBK/Church-Rollie-Roses+008.jpg The Truth & Meaning of Human Sexuality - The Child is like a Rose… We might compare the child to a rosebud forming on a bush, immature and tightly enclosed within its protective sepals. Gradually it grows larger, taking up through its roots, the nutrition and hydration in the soil below and absorbing the warmth and light of the sun from above. If the rosebud in this early stage is violated, pierced or its sepals pulled back or torn away, it will never open properly. It will never display the lush beauty and fragrance that was to be its destiny. It will be stunted and misshapen, even perhaps die and fall from the stem. The child's education in matters of sexuality must be like that, a gradual revelation and growth in knowledge, blending the earthly formation of a happy, holy family life and reverent respectful conversation with a loving parent, with the Divine formation gained from knowing a loving God Who created all things — including the human body and the conjugal union of marriage — in His image as things good, true, beautiful and pure. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/601dedfcf17bd8180804d707/1615652407123-AYB6D0Y91WT6V1QMSWS9/In-The-Orchard-Evert-Pieters-Oil-Painting+1000x1198.jpg The Truth & Meaning of Human Sexuality - TMHS is the Pearl of Great Price… It states the Church needs to help parents reclaim their task, which is original and primary, irreplaceable and inalienable, by providing solid formation materials for them in conformity with the principles put forth in the document. TMHS strives to give parents confidence in their own capabilities and to help them carry out their own inalienable task in the midst of firmly entrenched school programs of classroom sex education. This document and its vision for the family is one of HOPE, where children and parents together share a life seeking virtue and holiness, essential in forming the foundation of a healthy, vigorous and productive society. These are the families who are LIGHT in the world, innocent and straightforward children of God, beyond reproach in the midst of a twisted and depraved generation...shining like stars in the sky while holding fast to the Word of Life. Philippians 2:15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/601dedfcf17bd8180804d707/1615652587447-T16AVI509CHIOJMR4HDS/Mother+Mary+Blessing+Imgrum.pw.jpg The Truth & Meaning of Human Sexuality - The Immaculata There is a great need in our world, to recover understanding and esteem for the holiness of the human body, for holy marriage and holy conjugal union. Only then will we be able to understand and esteem the holiness of the celibate priesthood and consecrated virginity. But in this day and age when we have suffered such violation of our own purity and witnessed the destruction of sexual purity in others, how can this even be possible? How can we ever recover this attitude? Only by the power and through the intercession of the Immaculata, the Blessed Virgin Mary for she says: “I will give you a new purity…” ...But mine is also an Immaculate Heart, that is to say, a motherly heart that has never been tarnished by any shadow, by any sin, limpid as a spring, clear as light. The priests of my Movement must restore purity in souls and fight firmly against the Demon of Lust in all its manifestations. To those who have fallen I will give a new purity; I will call them to a second and more beautiful innocence of repentance and love. I want it to be the Movement of my priests which will bring back the fragrance of purity to the world: for it is only on the billow of this perfume that my Son Jesus will once again become the King of hearts and of souls. To the Priests Our Lady’s Beloved Sons - 21 Prayer - Holy Mary, Mother of God, receive us into your most pure womb where, by the power of the Holy Spirit, you conceived and carried for nine months, the Holy Child Jesus. Let us be born again of you, in the Holy Spirit, in the simplicity, innocence and purity of little children and teach us esteem for the holiness of the human body, for holy marriage and holy conjugal union. Against the darkness of error and sin, we want to bring the candle of your light everywhere we go and to everyone we meet. Amen. There was a time when you were darkness but now you are light in the Lord. Live then as children of light. Light produces every kind of goodness, righteousness and truth. 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The Church utilized symbolic plants and flowers on the various feast days, and nature became a sort of ‘catechism’ for those who could not read. The research of John S. Stokes and Edward McTague resulted in the founding of the Mary Garden Movement in the United States and has renewed interest and appreciation of flower symbolism and theology. This, it is hoped, will help renew and regraft the link between nature - plants and flowers - with the liturgy. Children are especially receptive to this manner of teaching by associating flowers with virtues due to their forms or names. Flowers of the Fairest is a PowerPoint presentation consisting of more than 80 slides. The full presentation takes approximately one hour including a short mid-point break. This will be a suitable offering for Church groups, garden clubs and organizations, academic institutions…in short, for anyone with an interest in knowing more about Mary Gardens and in honoring Our Lady by planning and designing their own Mary Garden. https://www.sacredheartspublications.com/i-welcome-jesus daily 0.75 2023-03-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/601dedfcf17bd8180804d707/fc7aa3ed-9d3a-4bd0-b82f-e8b5802dd4da/Welcome+Jesus+for+Website+Preview.jpg I Welcome Jesus Parents, pastors and teachers alike will see this book for children as a unique and indispensable part of preparing for this most Important Day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/601dedfcf17bd8180804d707/e7bfc45f-9071-43ee-a798-56116ab1db85/Welcome+Jesus+for+Website+Preview+page2.jpg I Welcome Jesus The book presents to the child a metaphor by comparing their heart to a beautiful garden that will be full of flowers for Jesus on First Communion Day. 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The book presents to the child a metaphor by comparing their heart to a beautiful garden that will be full of flowers for Jesus on First Communion Day. Poetry and prayers that speak directly to children’s tender and innocent hearts are included. They will treasure this book as a memento of First Communion Day and use it often, planting the seeds of habitual virtue that can grow into a life of holiness. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/601dedfcf17bd8180804d707/1616014049385-03ZDUQZJE2VT7D935CDZ/Corsage+and+Boutonniere.png I Welcome Jesus - A Floral Reminder…. On the day of their First Communion they may even wear a little corsage or boutonniere made of these flowers as a symbol of their efforts. Parents, pastors and teachers alike will see this book for children as a unique and indispensable part of preparing for this most Important Day. Grandparents and friends of Catholic children will want to give this book as a gift, and spread the good news about it to others. 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