Read the Catechism in a Year
Day 263 - Parent-Child Mutual Respect
The Fourth Commandment: Honor your father and your mother.
How does a child respect his parents?
A child respects and honors his parents by showing them love and gratitude.
Children should be grateful to their parents in the first place because they received their life from the love of their parents. This gratitude establishes a lifelong relationship of love, respect, responsibility, and obedience, rightly understood. Especially in times of need, sickness, and old age, children should lovingly be there for their parents and care for them faithfully.
How do parents respect their children?
God entrusted children to parents so that they might be steady, righteous examples for those children, that they might love and respect them and do everything possible so that their children can develop physically and spiritually.
Children are a gift from God and not the property of the parents. Before they are their parents’ children, they are God’s children. The primary duty of parents is to present to their children the Good News and to communicate the Christian faith to them. (YOUCAT questions 371-372)
Dig Deeper: Corresponding CCC section (2214-2225) and other references here.
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