The unassuming title Home for Good and the original motivation Mother Loyola had in writing this book—that is, to help young ladies who were finishing boarding school to make the right choices in life—both utterly belie the groundbreaking significance of its content. While Mother Loyola's King of the Golden City is charming and entertaining; while her catechesis books are both informative and inspiring; and while her devotional works are unparalleled in their ability to reach the hearts of their readers, Home for Good is a rock on which an unshakable faith can be built amidst the storms and calms of everyday life.
Having spent most of her adult life educating young ladies, Mother Loyola was intimately familiar with the character of youth as well as the challenges young people face when confronted with the temptations of worldliness. But beneath her practical advice about the use of one's time lies a much deeper question: What are you going to do with the life God has entrusted to you? Again and again she brings the reader back to personal responsibility—the formation of character, the right use of freedom, the salvation of one's soul, and the duty to put one's gifts and opportunities at the service of God and neighbor.
In her earlier books we've watched Mother Loyola help the child learn the Faith, receive the Sacraments, know Christ, pray, and form habits of spiritual life. Now she begins taking away the scaffolding. The young person is going “home for good.” Teachers and school rules will no longer make all the decisions. Faith has to become self-governing Christian adulthood.
Though this book was written with her young charges in mind, it is no less relevant to young men, who endure the same enticements—and in our own culture, perhaps even greater ones. It is a clarion call to young Catholics to hold fast to their faith and morals in a world that seeks to destroy that faith at every opportunity, while refusing to waste the life they have been given in the pursuit of comfort, amusement, and self-interest. Readers of all ages, both male and female, have equally to gain by returning to this book regularly.
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