Prayers & Reflections for March 16

The Armor of God
Reflections and Prayers for Wartime

CHAPTER IX
The Blessed Mother

If we could ever find anything we loved more than the flesh, the demands of the flesh would be less imperative.

This is the "escape" a mother offers her boy when she says: "Don't do anything of which your mother would ever be ashamed."

If there is that higher love of his mother, the boy will always have a consecrated
sense of affection, something for which he will be willing to make sacrifices...

[Continued tomorrow]
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From:
The Armor of God
Reflections and Prayers for Wartime
by Rt. Rev. Msgr. Fulton J. Sheen
(C) 1943, P.J. Kenedy & Sons