Council 112 This is the Faith March 2007

Tony Marino is an Air Force veteran who later received a degree in English Literature at Long Island University. For more than 30 years, he was an insurance agent for Aetna before eventually becoming a private insurance consultant. Since his retirement in 2003, he has devoted himself to the service of St. Peter's Parish in Concord and the Right to Life movement in New Hampshire. Tony has been married to his wife, Annette for more than 40 years. They have ten children and 22 grandchildren.

IV. “HONOR YOUR FATHER AND YOUR MOTHER, THAT YOUR DAYS MAY BE LONG IN THE LAND WHICH THE LORD GIVES YOU.”

The Fourth Commandment, within what appears to be an uncomplicated instruction, “Honor your father and mother” nonetheless carries with it the basic building blocks of a sane and rational society. Under this Commandment children have a duty to obey their parents in all that they ask, when what they ask is good for the child, or good for the family. This duty extends in time to the point where the child is no longer a resident in the parent’s home. However, even in the years where the child is emancipated, the grown child has a responsibility toward parents to provide material and moral support in old age, illness, loneliness, and in times of distress, within their capabilities. The Catechism tells us that, “Jesus recalls this duty of gratitude.” Co-relative with the duty of the child toward the parent is the duty of the parent toward the child. The marital responsibility encompasses not only procreation, but education as well. This responsibility is so important, that it is almost an impossibility to provide an adequate substitute, or in any way diminish this inalienable right and duty. Parents have the first responsibility for the education of their children, and to that end, they bear witness to that responsibility by creating a home where “tenderness, forgiveness, respect, fidelity and disinterested service” is the rule. Through the grace of the marriage sacrament, parents have both the responsibility and the privilege of “evangelizing their children”, and from the child’s earliest years begin education in faith “by witness of a Christian life in keeping with the Gospel”.

The Fourth Commandment also enjoins us to honor all who exercise authority as a service, but it should be known, that no can “command or establish” that which is “contrary to the dignity of persons and the natural law.” Citizens, along with civil authorities, contribute to the good of society, “in a spirit of truth, justice, solidarity and freedom.”

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