ISB ~ Mark 10 v14

Let the children come:When Jesus blesses the kilkJ children, he attaches great practical importance to his teaching on the indissolubility of marriage (10:11-12). Children are, after all, the fruit of married love and the ones who stand most affected by the tragedy of divorce. God intends them to be raised and blessed in the security of a healthy family.

• Jesus welcomes children into the kingdom of God and so lays a foundation for the Church’s practice of Infant Baptism (CCC 1250-52). See note on Lk 18:16.