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O adulterous and sinful world, hostile to God and human salvation! You are trying with all your might to tear away the children of God, children of Christian parents, from water and the Spirit, from God and from eternal life, for you are raising them in your seditious apostate spirit - in the spirit of secular passionate writers who dream only of so-called earthly blessings, of pleasures and successes, tearing them away from God, from Heaven, from the Church, from her heavenly, holy, blessed and eternal verbs (3).
Do not leave children without attention regarding eradicating from their hearts the weeds of sins, nasty, evil and blasphemous thoughts, sinful habits, inclinations and passions; the enemy and the sinful flesh do not spare children, the seeds of all sins are also in children: present to children all the dangers of sins on the path of life, do not hide sins from them, so that through ignorance and lack of understanding they do not become established in sinful habits and addictions, which grow and bear corresponding fruits when children reach age (6).
Parents and educators! Guard your children with all care from the whims before you, otherwise the children will soon forget the value of your love, infect their hearts with malice, early lose the holy, sincere, ardent love of their hearts, and upon reaching adulthood they will bitterly complain that in their youth they were cherished too much and indulged in the whims of their hearts. Caprice is the germ of heart corruption, the rust of the heart, the moth of love, the seed of malice, an abomination to the Lord (6).
“Unless you are converted and become like children,” says the Savior, “you will not enter the Kingdom of Heaven” (Matthew 18:3). It is absolutely necessary for us to be humble like children. Without humility there cannot be sincere, simple faith, and without such faith it is impossible to please God. My God, Lord Jesus Christ! Grant me to be a child of faith - simple, trusting. Children are so simple that whatever they are told, they believe it. This is how people should be in relation to the Word of God (10).
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