Large families and holiness

"Large families can foster holiness for many reasons. For the parents, here are three: less sleep, higher costs, and more work. Three great reasons, some might say, for avoiding children altogether. And many do. But not if your aim is heaven. Indeed, the fruits of conjugal love produce the conditions by nature that monks and nuns have to impose upon themselves by grace."

From Crisis Magazine: The Long War Against the Family

HT Sam G

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