Sex Education: The Basic Issues

Letter of Mother Teresa

To Veil of Innocence

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Missionaries of Charity
54A A.J.C. Bose Road
Calcutta 700016 INDIA

November 19, 1996

Dear Friends,

God has created each one of us for greater things to love and to be loved. The first and best place that each child learns about love is in the family from his own parents. Let us thank God for good and loving parents who take the responsibility to train their children to love God and one another, and who protect their children from all that would destroy their power of loving.

I have often said to gatherings of young people that the greatest gift of God that a young woman and a young man can give to each other on their wedding day is a virgin heart in a virgin body. And the young people are very happy to hear that because they know that they are made to love and be loved in this special way by only one person in marriage and that the fruit of their love is the gift of the child.

Let us hope and pray that this book “Sex Education: The Basic Issues” will help parents to protect their children from the evil that is around us, especially from, anything that would destroy the gift of pure and chaste love within them.

May we be humble and pure like Mary, so that we may be holy like Jesus.

Let us pray.

Most Sacred Heart of Jesus,
Son of God Our Father and
Mary Immaculate Ever Virgin,
Bless and Protect Our Children.
Foster In Them A Pure Love, and
Through Your Perfect Love,
Grant Them Thy Grace.

Amen.