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Because lay people are so concerned with things of the world it is easy for them to become worldly.

Men make everything about money, women make everything about the respect of their neighbors. 

They easily forget that Catholic Marriage is one of the Sacraments of the Church.

Since the wife and children are subjects of the husband, this is quite relevant to post here.

Practical Consideration on the Life of St. John Chrysostom
by Fr. Francis Xavier Weninger

St. Chrysostom fearlessly punished the faults, abuses and vices which appeared in his flock, although he was on that account in many ways persecuted. Zeal for the welfare of his subjects urged him on to these measures of severity, with which he sought to better the morals of those entrusted to him. If you have others subject to you, do not allow faults or vices which you can prevent, to pass without correction. The love which you must have both for them and for yourself and your soul, demands such a line of conduct. Otherwise your subjects may, on account of the vices which you can hinder, be eternally lost, and you will be held responsible for their ruin. Such negligence will, moreover, endanger your own salvation, as you are guilty of those sins which you could hinder and did not do so, "Whoever can prevent sin or correct faults, becomes, without doubt, guilty of them, if he fails to do so," says St. Gregory. Have a care, then, to correct the faults of your subjects, if you love them and your own soul.


"I fear nothing, except sin," said St. Chrysostom. What he said he practised, by neither approving of injustice nor shrinking from fulfilling his duty, even at the cost of suffering disgrace, deposition, and the persecution of his enemies. He feared neither the displeasure of crowned heads nor persecution unto death. He feared sin alone, by which God is offended: "I fear nothing except sin." And truly, we should not fear anything else, as sin is the only evil which can do us harm. At the very least, we fear sin more than all other evils, as it is greater than all we call evil, and the real source of evil. Sin alone can harm us for eternity. "It is evident," says St. Chrysostom, "that sin is the source of all evil. From sin comes war, sickness, persecution, and all that we have to suffer." What is the consequence? The Saint himself gives the answer: "We should fear only one thing, namely, sin . . . . All other things cannot hurt the soul."