In this month's Seton Home Study Newsletter, there was printed an excerpt by a talk given by Dr. William Marra, now deceased, back in 1993. He was a home schooling father and professor of Philosophy at Fordham University. Although he is talking about home schoolers in particular, what he is talking about when you come right down to it is our obligations as Catholics, hope for our broken society, and true Christian leadership. The "heroes" he speaks of are what we all have to be as soldiers of Christ. Here is an excerpt of the excerpt.

Because there is no Catholic culture, Catholic culture has to become the effect. Thanks to Christ-centered homeschooling, these children, born into this barren culture, will be the future heroes. These heroes will have a dedication to Truth.

These homeschooled heroes will understand who is Christ, what is Truth, what is the Church, what are the enemies of the Church.

Some of these heroes are going to swear a vow to be holy, and they will mean it. These home schooled heroes will reject our secular materialistic world and all its vices. These homeschooled heroes will understand that life on earth is a pilgrimage. Some of these home schooled heroes will be dedicated to a zealous pursuit of the Truth, no matter what it costs them in study, dispute, or controversy.

Because of their dedication and formation in home schooling, these parents will give us the young people who will be the heroes of sanctity in the first place, and the heroes of Catholic culture in the second place.

It is these homeschooled heroes who will make the cultural barren desert bloom once again.

This is our goal, both in the Church and in the world. We need to take seriously the religious education of our children and take full responsibility for it. We need to take seriously our own religious education, be willing to be continually formed by Christ, and never give up! We must have as the center of our lives the Truth, no matter the cost.