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Honor Your Parents, Serve Your Children (Catechism Series Part 34) - Auspice Maria Ep. 64

Auspice Maria with Bishop James Ruggieri

Why should we listen to our parents? How does that relationship change over time? In this episode of Auspice Maria, Bishop James Ruggieri reflects on the Fourth Commandment: “Honor your father and your mother.” We learn love before we choose it. We are cared for before we can care. The family, he says, is the first school of love, the place where trust, gratitude, forgiveness, and sacrifice are learned. Bishop Ruggieri speaks to children still living that lesson, to grown children now caring for aging parents, and to families carrying real wounds, where honor does not mean pretending the hurt was never there. From the domestic church, he widens the lens to teachers, employers, and civil authority to show how the fourth commandment shapes our society. A full transcript is available on our website at https://portlanddiocese.org/news/auspice-maria-ep-64