Do I Have to Obey My Parents When I’m an Adult, Too?

The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast

Ascension

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 10 November 2022

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

"Honor thy Father and thy Mother."

We know from our youth that we are called to obey our parents as commanded by the 4th Commandment. But what about once we're grown and out of their home?

Today Fr. Mike doles out some advise for adult children on what obedience and respect for one's parents looks like and what the Catechism of the Catholic Church has to say about this relationship.

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0:00.0	I want to read something from the Catacism of the Catacan Church.
0:02.2	Hopefully, I've even heard it before.
0:03.6	This is the Ascension Edition of the Catacism.
0:05.3	You can follow along with any recent edition of the
0:07.6	any recent version of the Catacism of the Catacan Church.
0:09.6	All right? Okay. Here we go.
0:10.8	Buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh.
0:12.4	How my name's Father Mike Schmidt's and this is Ascension Presents.
0:14.7	So as I probably bring up maybe way too often,
0:17.6	is I work with a lot of high schoolers.
0:19.1	I work with a lot of college students and a lot of those who are just beyond
0:21.7	college. So because of that, I work with a lot of people who are in
0:26.0	this evolving relationship with their parents.
0:28.1	Like, if it's evolving relationship with their families because as we know,
0:31.0	and at a lessons, we have to actually get to a place where we,
0:33.9	you know, experience some kind of autonomy.
0:36.9	I remember hearing a psychologist talk about this and he said that it's
0:39.3	absolutely necessary for proper psychosocial development.
0:42.8	We need to be part of a group.
0:44.2	Like, we absolutely need to be.
0:45.6	And one of the first groups, maybe the first group we were part of,
0:48.4	is our family.
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