Do you know what your dad’s fears are? Maybe you are also blaming your dad for being unavailable (or being emotionally unavailable), and you didn’t know that he had fears. That Baba (dad), who was supposed to be our wall or pillar of iron. He’s got fears, He didn’t know what he was, especially if he immigrated, he’s in a new country, if he loses the job that he’s kind of been secure in I don’t know if anyone’s gonna, like, take me in in the next company. It’s not like I’m competing against all the people that were born here and the young students. That’s a lot of pressure.
—Fr. Paul Girguis
Category: PARENTS
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The Christian concept of parents as being the delegates of God carries with it the inference that they are to be treated with peculiar respect. Children incur the guilt of grievous sin who strike their parents, or even raise their hands to do so, or who give them well-founded reason for great sorrow. The same is to be said of those who put their parents in a violent rage, who curse them or revile them, or refuse to recognize them.
Delany, J. (1911). Parents. In The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
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When did she pain her parents even by a look?
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If this relationship is your parents, God wants you to fight more because he asked us to honor our parents.
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“They’re wrong…my parents, they’re the worst.” Maybe you’re right, but the way you’re going about it is wrong.
—Fr. Elijah Estafanous -
The stress of a loss makes everyone feel weary and old, of course, but I always felt as though the loss of her mother aged my mom in a way that was both far less tangible and much more real: she was no longer forever young in comparison to someone else, no longer still a baby in somebody’s heart and mind.
home for the holidays
rayne fisher-quann -
There is tension between George and Johnny, between Ashley and Johnny, between the world and Johnny. He spends long hours away from everyone, but watch him down in the basement, when a documentary about meerkats comes on TV. He knows his wife “loves meerkats.” He races around desperately to find a blank videotape, so he can tape the show. It would mean so much to him to give her this video. He fails. Ashley explains about the tab that keeps you from re-recording over something, but he responds with anger and, of course, takes it out on her.
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“In mourning, I have learned that every version of myself must grieve her loss.”
“That sense of longing now extends to feeling outside of my body. Someone recently told me that losing your mother is primal. It is the deepest loss.”
“I had not been vigilant on either occasion and I had missed something. I had missed everything.”
“She had brought me into this world and I was helping her out of it.”
What My Mother Didnt Talk About
Karolina Waclawiak
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