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““there is no doubt that it is there is no doubt that it is around the family and around the family and

home that all the greatest home that all the greatest virtues, the most virtues, the most

dominating virtues of dominating virtues of human society are created, human society are created,

strengthened and strengthened and maintained”maintained”

Admiring her son’s Episcopal ring, Mama Sarto once remarked to Giuseppe

that without this ring, pointing to her original

wedding ring, “there will not be the Episcopal

ring on your finger”, she remarked spiritedly to the

young Bishop Sarto.

BishopGiuseppe Melchor Sarto, Bishop of Mantua, Italy

who later became St. Pius X

the fused devotion and faith of Papa and

Mama will one day determine the

children’s fear and love of God and

marked compassion for the poor and the

weak.

“By its very nature marriage is ordered to the good of the couple, as well as

the generation and education of the

children”. (CCC, 1660)

Unity, indissolubility and openness Unity, indissolubility and openness to life are essential elements of every to life are essential elements of every

Christian marriage.Christian marriage.

The first task towards life, when one is

alerted to its presence, is to

protect, preserve, nourish and defend it. And the first place where to do these is in the family and the

home.

It is a wonderful blessing that is

bestowed upon a woman to carry a child in her womb,

to participate so intimately in

Creation by her own flesh and blood.

Every woman is called to be a daughter, a wife and

a mother: daughter of God, bride of Christ, mother of mankind, mother of humanity,

through a motherhood that goes beyond that of the

flesh

Like Mary, the Mother of Jesus in her motherhood, a

mother shapes the future of the earth,

by ensuring the character of the

person she receives as her child.

Both woman Both woman and man, wife and man, wife

and husband are and husband are co-responsible co-responsible for the life that for the life that they have both they have both

brought to birth. brought to birth.

The Papa is the person who can

usher, with knowledge,

experience, and prudence, both son

and daughter into the cruel and deceiving

ways of today’s world.

The “rub on” effect of formation and instruction is picked up by the

child from his parents at home.

It is in the family that life at its

feeblest moments gets the attention and the extremely

sensitive care appropriate to the

weakest.

The second care that is learned at home is in the use of food. The respect

for food nearly always become “reverence” simply because food is linked to life in order to support it.

The “heart of the Catechesis” on the

Theology of the crumbs in Pondo ng Pinoy is precisely the truth that nothing that supports can support life should be thrown

to waste.

The third care for giving the young the

power to be responsible in their

life of respect, concern and love begins also in the

family.

To ensure the stability of the young adult and to help ensure the soundness of Christian civil

life in tomorrow’s society, marriage as the bedrock of the family must be supported and

strengthened. This is our commitment in MAGPAS.