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My daughters, my son,
I can teach you to be ambitious, educated and strive for more, so that you can provide for your future families.
I will not do it though.
I would much rather teach you how to get by on less; how to go without; how to be happy with basic necessities of life. Possessions can be lost and there is no such thing as true financial security in this world.
This is not an excuse to be lazy; this is a treatise against worldly success and ambitions.
You were created to labour, but also to enjoy some leisure and above all, to love. Do not therefore lose yourselves in a false idea that you must always be productive. You don't but you do have to love and pray always.
Families can live in small houses, and even with other family members. Your future children don't necessarily need seperate bedrooms – look how you share rooms and fill them with endless laughter!
You don't need many clothing items, a huge pile of shoes, latest gadgets and everything else the world is desperate to sell you.
Don't hate work, my children, but do it for the love of God and to provide for what is needed. Give away freely if you have more. Your security is in God, do you think He will ever abandon you or allow you to starve?
My son, be a good, hard-working man who knows when to take a break. Do not forget that God is ultimately the one who provides. Lean on Him with your whole heart.
My daughters, stay home with your children as long as you can. Work if you're facing abject poverty, just like your poor great-grandmothers worked in the fields or knitted clothes to sell them, but try to work from home. Always be with your children and teach them what I taught you: how to live on little but love a lot.
We need to earn our bread, but we don't need to earn 10 loaves to waste them.
Be a good Catholic and God will give you whatever you need.
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