Respect Your Parents

God commands us to respect our parents and elders. By respecting them, we

also respect God who gave our parents authority over us. As we get older,
their responsibility towards us lessens as we become responsible for
ourselves. However, they remain our parents and we must continue to
respect them. Let us listen to their advice and rely on the wisdom they have
gained from life experiences.

Sirach 44:1, 10-15 (or Jeremiah 2:1-3, 7-8, 12-13)

1Now will I praise those godly men, our ancestors, each in his
own time: 10 These were godly men whose virtues have not been
forgotten; 11 their wealth remains in their families, their heritage
with their descendants. 12 Through God’s covenant with them
their family endures, their posterity, for their sake. 13 And for all
time their progeny will endure, their glory will never be blotted
out; 14 their bodies are peacefully laid away, but their name lives
on and on. 15 At gatherings their wisdom is retold, and the
assembly proclaims their praise.