The baptized child is a full member of the Church of God his Father. When we accompany him to the communal prayer, if he starts to comprehend, we are supposed to prepare him for responsible participation. Talking to him about everything that is going on in front of him will make it easier for him to experience conscious prayer, and will deepen it. If he fidgets, nothing will help him other than to enjoin him to what will bring him back to his stability. There remains what other children might do before him. I am not talking about friendships that strengthen commitment, but rather that we support him in building an independent personality, that is, that we strengthen in him what helps him to distinguish between what is right and what is wrong. When Jesus was young, his \"parents\" lost him for three days. They searched for him, then found him in the temple, sitting among the teachers. They asked him: \u201cwhy have You done this to us?\u201d. He answered them: \u201cDid you not know that I must be about My Father\u2019s business?\u201d (Luke 2: 42-50). Who grants us that our children realize that the Church is their Father\u2019s house?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The baptized child is a full member of the Church of God his Father. When we accompany him to the communal prayer, if he starts to comprehend, we are supposed to prepare him for responsible participation. Talking to him about everything that is going on in front of him will make it easier for him ...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[343],"tags":[1731,3027,3028,1470,1241],"class_list":["post-7495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections","tag-baptism","tag-church-participation","tag-luke-2","tag-orthodox-parenting","tag-spiritual-growth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7797,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7495\/revisions\/7797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}