I believe that the Church today will be renewed by praying families. We are suffering today from crises of faith, of vocations, of leadership. The surest way to heal and repair our Church—perhaps the only way—is through family prayer. Our pastors are tired, overworked, and overwhelmed. Sometimes they seem hopeless. It will be faithful families who will bring real, lived, devout faith back to parishes, dioceses, and Mother Church. The small, routine, everyday manifestations of faith—attending the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, going regularly to Confession, praying the Rosary—will reignite the fire of faith in a generation of strong, hopeful, believing Catholics who will one day grow up to be the light of the world.
Reprinted from Building a Wholesome Family in a Broken World: Habsburg Lessons from the Centuries by Eduard Habsburg, Archduke of Austria, Sophia Institute Press, 2024, p. 92
