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I am looking for an article I read about two years ago by Father Hardon. Not sure if it was an article written by him, or a speech he gave to homeschooling families. I would love to read it again but can't find my copy anywhere nor can I find it in it's entirety. The basic theme of the article was "only heroic Catholic families will survive". Has anyone else heard of it or have a link to it? I really need the motivation about now as we start our school year again, I'm really dragging this year... 
I searched a Father Hardon archives site with no luck.
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He used that expression often in his talks and writings. Is it this one?
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Bridget wrote:
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White martyrdom he also used. Families will be persecuted in this culture.
How I miss him! Did you ever hear his talks? "Let me repeat..." He was so saintly...I do think we should pray for his canonization...
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Oh yes, he lived in Detroit, near us. I can still hear his dear voice in my head often. His personal library is still intact at a church we attend sometimes.
Before he died, Fr. Hardon promised hs'ing families that he would remember them after his death. He is a good one to go to for help. He loved hs'ing families so much.
Jay McNally is writing his biography. I am looking forward to it being published.
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He married very dear friends of ours! I always say they were so blessed to be married by a saint. I was just thinking about him yesterday at Mass.
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Maddie,
I have heard of a book by that name, published by Fatima Family Apostolate...the book is by Fr. Robert Fox, though. Don't know if it maybe includes some of Fr. Hardon's thoughts?
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Bridget wrote:
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Bridget, when you finally hear of it being released, could you post that here? I would love to get a copy and read it, when it does arrive.
I do hope he will be canonized - he would make a wonderful patron saint of homeschooling!
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Bridget,
I'm thinking the article I read used excerpts from the article you linked. Last night, I remembered it was entitled, "A Prophetic Warning".
I was about to say how much I miss having him here with us, but then again, he is probably doing more for us where he is now. 
Have you all seen the picture of him looking at the Blessed Sacrament in the Monstrance with the reflection of Our Lord's face in it? Wow.
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How about this one?
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Jenn...I never heard this phrase, "white martyrdom." What does it mean?
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I, of course, am totally inadequate explaining something this holy priest said, but I'll try.
White martyrdom is something we're daily familiar with, being Catholic, homeschooling families. We're now at an age where we won't experience true bloody deaths or martyrdom for our Faith. But we are dying each day against popular culture -- a bloodless, or "white" martyrdom.
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Very temporal examples would be: not buying American girl dolls because the compnay is/was promoting causes we could not support. Letting our children run barefoot because it's part of childhood, when the rest of the culture says "no, they might get a scrape! Their play must be more controlled."
Keeping our kids with us because we want to prepare them for this world and the next instead of letting this world ruin them for the next. Our neighbors and family may not understand this and ridicule us for it.
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Thank s CiCi for that link. This article though I have read it before was just what I needed to day. And the reminder of White Martyrdom, really hit home, and hlps to embrace opposition in love.
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"Live Our Holy Faith
How are parents to provide for the Catholic home schooling for their children? First, the principal and most fundamental way is by living strong Catholic lives. All the academic verbiage and planned pedagogy are useless. Only persons who have God's grace will He use as the channels of His grace to others, and no one, but no one, cheats here.
What then is the first way to be an effective home schooling parent while living a good Catholic life?
For Catholic parents to live good Catholic lives in our day requires heroic virtue. Only heroic parents will survive the massive, demonic secularization of materially super-developed countries like America.
And consequently, far from being surprised, parents should expect that home schooling will not be easy. Any home schooling in the U.S. which is easy today is not authentic Catholic home schooling. If it is easy, there is something wrong.
Today, Catholic parents must not only endure the cross, resign themselves to living the cross, but they are to choose the cross. In case no one has told you, when you chose home schooling, you chose a cross-ridden form of education.
This is the age of martyrs ...and a martyr is one who suffers for the profession of his faith. There is red martyrdom and white martyrdom. There is bloody martyrdom and unbloody martyrdom.
You have to live a heroic Catholic life in America today. God will use you and provide you with the knowledge and the wisdom, providing you are living the authentically heroic Catholic life."
-Father Hardon speaking at a Homeschool Conference in 1991
Thank you Cici! That was what I was looking for. I'm going to place it by my bedside for mornings I don't want to get up and for nights when I'm wiped out.
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Thank you Jenn and Bridget! Very interesting --I'm always learning something new
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I had the utter privilege of meeting Fr. Hardon on a few occasions. What a holy, holy, man he was. I believe he was Mother Teresa's spiritual director for a time. My husband and I took the course that he developed for the catechetical instruction of the Sisters of the Missionary of Charity, now called the "Marian Catechist" program. I believe that he was sent to Michigan with the express orders from the Holy Father to make the Real Presence of Christ known in that area... judging by all of the lovely Catholics there, I think he succeeded, don't you? In order to begin the program we had to go through the Ignatian Spiritual Exercises, using his book, "Retreat with the Lord". I must say that all of this together was one of the most intensely spiritual points in my life!
Fr. John Hardon, Please pray for us!
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