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Whoever honors his father atones for sins, and whoever glorifies his mother is like one who lays up treasure. Those who honor their parents atone for sins and accumulate heavenly treasures: "The Lord wants the father to be honored by his sons he confirmed the right of the mother over her sons. Doing well it has the body and the spirit, because where there is God there is every kind of grace. This is the first commandment with a promise, that you may be happy and live long on the earth" (Eph. To love his father and his mother is a joy, for he who loves is blessed by the Lord. Paul says: "Pity it should be in everything, including in it the promise of this life and of the future" The exhortation of Saint Paul: "O Children, obey your parents in the Lord, as is right" (Ephesians 6, l). Instead, when we honor someone, he loves it and you respect. Who he loves not always respects and obeys, and those who fear do not always love. In the commandment formula is inserted the word "honor", rather than that of love or fear, although parents should be strongly loved and feared.
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Honor parents it means to love them, respect them, taking care not to cause them grief and be grateful to them for all the love you give us. Remember that they have begotten you you will reciprocate for what they did?" "Honor your father with all your heart and do not forget the sorrows of thy mother. Parents have the right to be loved in a special way, because they gave their lives, because they are our benefactors, our real and true friends who help us in the journey of life. As you can divide your bread with the hungry, house with the poor without hospitalization, seeing a naked and clothe him then if your heart is refractory to love your parents, if only because of the gratitude for giving us the opportunity to exist? It would be an illusion to love people far away, forgetting those that are near. God commands us to love those who gave us life, toward parents, then putting them in first place in the list of love to others, because they are the next closest to us. Honor father and mother open the second table of the law, the one that contains the commandments oriented charity towards our neighbor.