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140 vice; neglected to execute their will after their death; delayed unnecessarily to do so? Have you shown contempt or disobedience to your lawful superiors, spiritual or temporal; contempt or disrespect to aged persons? Parents should remember that if children owe them love, respect, and obedience, they themselves are bound to discharge certain duties, on the performance of which depends, in a measure, the conduct of their children. Have you loved your children with a Christian love; corrected them for their faults in a Christian manner, that is, without irascibility, but with firmness and meekness, and at the favorable moment; been attentive to inspire them with sentiments of fear and love of God; to teach them their prayers and the Christian Doctrine? Have you neglected to see that they regularly approach the sacraments of Penance and Eucharist; to remove from them