family unity

⁸But if anyone has no concern for his own, and especially for those of his own household, he has denied the faith, and he is worse than an unbeliever.

¹Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is just. ²Honor your father and your mother. This is the first commandment with a promise: ³so that it may be well with you, and so that you may have a long life upon the earth. ⁴And you, fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but educate them with the discipline and correction of the Lord.

⁶The proverb is: A youth is close to his way; even when he is old, he will not withdraw from it.

⁴And you, fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but educate them with the discipline and correction of the Lord.

¹A Canticle in steps: of David. Behold, how good and how pleasing it is for brothers to dwell in unity.

¹If I were to speak in the language of men, or of Angels, yet not have charity, I would be like a clanging bell or a crashing cymbal. ²And if I have prophecy, and learn every mystery, and obtain all knowledge, and possess all faith, so that I could move mountains, yet not have charity, then I am nothing. ³And if I distribute all my goods in order to feed the poor, and if I hand over my body to be burned, yet not have charity, it offers me nothing. ⁴Charity is patient, is kind. Charity does not envy, does not act wrongly, is not inflated. ⁵Charity is not ambitious, does not seek for itself, is not provoked to anger, devises no evil. ⁶Charity does not rejoice over iniquity, but rejoices in truth.

²⁴For this reason, a man shall leave behind his father and mother, and he shall cling to his wife; and the two shall be as one flesh.

⁵Have confidence in the Lord with all your heart, and do not depend upon your own prudence.

⁷Most beloved, let us love one another. For love is of God. And everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.

⁴but a man who leads his own house well, having children who are subordinate with all chastity.

¹⁷You shall not hate your brother in your heart, but reprove him openly, lest you have sin over him. ¹⁸Do not seek revenge, neither should you be mindful of the injury of your fellow citizens. You shall love your friend as yourself. I am the Lord.

³⁹For the Promise is for you and for your sons, and for all who are far away: for whomever the Lord our God will have called.”

¹⁸The Lord is near to all who call upon him, to all who call upon him in truth.

¹⁴By reason of this grace, I bend my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, ¹⁵from whom all paternity in heaven and on earth takes its name.