Teach your children well.

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I sent my daughters to convent school. That means, the necessary catechetical instruction would be a given, as part of the curriculum. Then one time in the past, my elder daughter and I were talking about doxology and the Memorare, and she asked why I never taught her the prayer. I was taken aback, because I pray the Memorare silently, when I am in desperation. She said it was never brought up in any of her religion classes. At another time in the past, too, my younger daughter, after one Sunday Mass, queried for a further explanation of the homily. Why, I asked with eyes wide open, that was the Gospel story explained already lengthily. Then she quipped quickly, 'After my med school, I will enroll in Theology.' Sigh. Lately, I've been hearing young people complaining why they were never taught the faith such as the History of the Church, the origin of the Apostles' Creed, the crises of the church, the Confessions of Augustine, the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas, the story of Guadalupe, the apparition at Lourdes, and Fatima. I feel distressed. I was a teacher. It now appears that I did not teach the children well enough. Sigh. I should have taught them well.