Aw, no! That is horrible! What is wrong? What is causing this?
You mean you haven’t experienced the phenomenon of parents presenting their kids for catechesis for First Communion and then once they’ve received never setting foot in church again except, maybe, at Christmas? Lucky you. It’s pretty much SOP here. Out of a class of 20 you might have a third who are in church regularly.
My parish is pretty strict. Those preparing for sacraments must be registered and active members of the parish, meaning that they are using their donation envelopes every Sunday, for at least four months before we will even talk to them about beginning preparation. Children in RE are issued punch cards for attending Mass. Those not using a contribution envelope after a few months are inactivated from our system. Yet we still have quite a few members who do not pick up their envelopes in a given year, or are disappointed when we turn them down for a sacrament. But, in the years we have held this policy, we have managed to train people pretty well about it.
all of the above is a horrible abuse and violation of canon law rights.
Tell that to our bishop then. We are guided by an extremely orthodox and faithful pastor who is in good standing, and there has not been a peep of complaint from above that we are abusing anything. Indeed, we regularly receive seminarians and the newly ordained priests to train them in the ways of parish life and pastoral care.
Yes! Let’s ordain em’!
I think it’s spot on.
I saw that on Fr. Z’s blog today. It is fantastic. Want to know the best part? That’s an OF Mass looking so reverent. It is possible!
I am an altar server. I’m 49 years old.
If I don’t become a deacon, then I hope to be buried in a cassock and surplice so that everyone can say that I served at my own funeral. I think that would be fun.
-Tim-
I watched this video (it was very nice) and then read the comments. I was especially touched by the one made by the username “LongSkirts1”. I went to her youtube page to see more about her and was horrified that this seemingly devout women (hence her “long skirts” and sweet commentary about her sons) would end up with posting her own comments laden with profanity and the “F-bomb” about others! (see comment about David Parkman)
youtube.com/user/LongSkirts1I showed this to my 14 year old actually. He said that the young mon obviously wanted to be a priest so it didn’t count…although, my son did say he agreed with likeing to wear the trational surplice and cassock as the young man in the video said–I thought that was interesting…
No stones thrown by me. Trying to find that perfect balance between nto driving your family from the church and obeidience is hard. I am trying to keep the kids active.You mean you haven’t experienced the phenomenon of parents presenting their kids for catechesis for First Communion and then once they’ve received never setting foot in church again except, maybe, at Christmas? Lucky you. It’s pretty much SOP here. Out of a class of 20 you might have a third who are in church regularly.
In our town what’s causing it is lack of anything but sacramental preparation. There is no ongoing catechesis. Hockey is more important than Mass and even a member of the baptismal prep team misses Mass through most of the hockey season because, well, “You have to compromise.”
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