Priestly Devotion

Prophetic Vision

Kingly Courage

The fulfillment of the Christian patriarchal duties to provide, protect, and sanctify requires the integration of priestly devotion, prophetic vision, and kingly courage.

​Priest
My fellow bishops (Lt., Coepiscopi) . . .  to every man, if he is the head of his own house,  ought the office of the Episcopate to belong, \​to take care how his household believe, that none fall away from the truth.
St. Augustine addressing the men of the Hippo Diocese (circa 400 A.D.)
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Prophet
"This order [ of familial patriarchy] was constituted by an authority higher than man's, that is, by the authority and wisdom of God Himself, and neither the laws of the State nor the good pleasure of individuals can ever change it."[24] 
Pius XI, Castii Connubi (1931)

King
"Every family is a society; every well ordered society needs a head; every power of headship comes from God.  
​And so, too, the family you have founded has a head, invested with authority by God."
Pius XII, Allocution to Newlyweds (1942)