The necessity of fathers cannot be overlooked in the Church or society. At home, fathers play a critical role as the spiritual leader of the family.
We show our gratitude for their love, protection, and guidance by praying for our fathers, whether they are alive or deceased.
We acknowledge God as our Father in Heaven, giving thanks to Him for all that He does for us.
St. Joseph, is also honored by the Catholic Church as the adoptive father of Jesus and role model for all fathers.
Whether a biological father or not, every man is called to be a spiritual father to those around him. Catholic priests especially, are called to offer spiritual protection, nurturing, and guidance to the people in their care.
Father’s Day, a secular holiday in the United States, is celebrated on the third Sunday of June.
The irreplaceable role of fathers:
Dads make a difference:
Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up with the training and instruction of the Lord.
Ephesians 6: 4
Father’s lead their families to Heaven:
A good father puts his wife and children ahead of himself:
Love for his wife as mother of their children and love for the children themselves are for the man the natural way of understanding and fulfilling his own fatherhood. Above all where social and cultural conditions so easily encourage a father to be less concerned with his family or at any rate less involved in the work of education, efforts must be made to restore socially the conviction that the place and task of the father in and for the family is of unique and irreplaceable importance. As experience teaches, the absence of a father causes psychological and moral imbalance and notable difficulties in family relationships, as does, in contrary circumstances, the oppressive presence of a father, especially where there still prevails the phenomenon of “machismo,” or a wrong superiority of male prerogatives which humiliates women and inhibits the development of healthy family relationships.
Pope John Paul II, Familiaris Consortio, 22 November 1981
Teach your children well:
Essential fatherhood:
Respect for parents (filial piety) derives from gratitude toward those who, by the gift of life, their love and their work, have brought their children into the world and enabled them to grow in stature, wisdom, and grace. “With all your heart honor your father, and do not forget the birth pangs of your mother. Remember that through your parents you were born; what can you give back to them that equals their gift to you?”
Catechism of the Catholic Church 2215
St. Joseph, model for Catholic fathers:
What it means to call God “Father”:
Every man is called to be a spiritual father:
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