Defend children from evil

"Jesus looked at me graciously and said that He was gravely offended by children: You are to defend them from evil." --St Faustina

A child cannot be too protected from evil. When they are pure, it is easy for them to detect impurity. If they have been accustomed to impurity, then how shall they detect it except in its wildest forms? And even then, if they have not experienced the goodness of purity, why should they choose it over impurity?

People who are trained to detect counterfeit money are not specialists in counterfeit money, but in real money. They handle and smell and observe millions of real dollar bills, and it is then easy for them to detect what is fake. It would be too difficult for them to learn all of the different techniques for creating counterfeit money, and they would not be able to stay abreast the technologies and products of the crooks. But when they know what is real so intimately, they can reject everything that is not, even if they have never seen that type of counterfeit before.

This is how we must teach children to discern good and evil: total immersion in what is good, pure, true and beautiful. Only then can they be prepared to face the world and the infinite perversions of the devil.