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The Christian Training of Children – Preparing a Child for Confession

Little Book of Instructions for Christian Mothers [continued]
(from Mother Love – A Manual for Christian Mothers – by Rev. Pius Franciscus, O.M.Cap., 1926)

On the Christian Training of Children
Chapter XIII. – How a Christian Mother Should Prepare Her Child for Confession.
The sincere confession of sins and faults in union with a sincere sorrow for [...]

The Christian Training of Children – Rewards and Punishments

Little Book of Instructions for Christian Mothers [continued]
(from Mother Love – A Manual for Christian Mothers – by Rev. Pius Franciscus, O.M.Cap., 1926)
On the Christian Training of Children

Chapter VII. – Of Rewards and Punishments.
A stubborn evil spirit that resists the ordinary means of control, is driven out according to the words of our Lord by [...]

The Christian Training of Children – Combating Concupiscence of the Flesh

Little Book of Instructions for Christian Mothers [continued]
(from Mother Love – A Manual for Christian Mothers – by Rev. Pius Franciscus, O.M.Cap., 1926)
On the Christian Training of Children
Chapter IV. – How the Christian Mother Should Combat in Her Child the Concupiscence of the Flesh.
The first evil inclination, the concupiscence of the flesh, seeks inordinately after [...]

The Christian Training of Children – Admonition to Mother

Little Book of Instructions for Christian Mothers [continued]
(from Mother Love – A Manual for Christian Mothers – by Rev. Pius Franciscus, O.M.Cap., 1926)
On the Christian Training of Children
Chapter III. – Admonition to the Mother.
Above all things, Christian mother, you yourself should be animated with the love of Christ! You should be a pious disciple, [...]

The Christian Training of Children – New and more Difficult Cares

Little Book of Instructions for Christian Mothers [continued]
(from Mother Love – A Manual for Christian Mothers – by Rev. Pius Franciscus, O.M.Cap., 1926)
On the Christian Training of Children
Chapter II. – The Two Ways and Kingdoms. New and more Difficult Cares.
Through baptism the child is consecrated to the Divine Savior. It becomes His own property and [...]

Catechism – without the age of reason

Sister Mary Peter teaches First Communion catechism in a special Sunday class for those children who are not students at IHM (IHM students have religion class every day and the First Grade students make their First Holy Communions at Christmas or in May, depending on the year). This fall there is a young man “auditing” [...]

The Christian Training of Children – Early Cares

[Editor's note: This little gem was recently "discovered" on our bookshelves. The Sisters are giving it to the school mothers one chapter at a time at our monthly Mothers' Teas. We hope that you will enjoy it, too.]
Little Book of Instructions for Christian Mothers
(from Mother Love – A Manual for Christian Mothers – by Rev. [...]