Are women more spiritual than men?

[TheHolyTrinity]

In my life, I’ve seen more women interested in religion and spirituality than men. In my church, I see more women than men at our Daily Masses. Admittedly; I am fascinated with women in general and I try to understand female psychology. But; I’d like a woman’s perspective on this… Does anyone else think that women are more spiritual than men?

Maybe in your own community parish you seen that women are more spiritual than men. I have seen in personally an equal number of men and women attend dailly mass.

 

[Tis_Bearself]

I think there’s this unfortunate culture where we think “women pray”, especially in the United States, where I live.

It seems like blogs such as romancatholicman.com and catholicgentleman,net are trying to change those ideas. Also, I get the impression that men who are in jobs where they risk their lives, such as military, police officer, firefighter, do pray, quite a bit. Probably the types of situations they see every day motivate them to turn more to God, as well as the presence of chaplains specifically serving their needs.

I do wonder if this is a US thing, though. I recently was at an early morning Mass in Prague (about the only one I could find that started before 9 am) and there were about 7-10 people there in addition to the priest and 2 adult male servers. Only 2 of the Mass attendees were women (both elderly). In the US, it would have been more like only 2 of the attendees were men.

 

[ConfusedLucy]

Xan, to be fair if that approach is working in your parish and you have members of all ages and healthy numbers then that’s great. If such a group existed at my parish without publicity it probably wouldn’t be sustainable.

I would also argue that I don’t think teenage boys are that influenced by their mothers anyway and probably wouldn’t appreciate them making arrangements. Young Catholics (probably true of any faith tbh) need to be able to make their faith their own. I’ve seen too many devout Catholic women who have been unable to keep their sons Catholic, I don’t think we should be blaming but rather looking at why their sons still leave.

 

[Xanthippe_Voorhees]

Xan, to be fair if that approach is working in your parish and you have members of all ages and healthy numbers then that’s great. If such a group existed at my parish without publicity it probably wouldn’t be sustainable.

I would also argue that I don’t think teenage boys are that influenced by their mothers anyway and probably wouldn’t appreciate them making arrangements. Young Catholics (probably true of any faith tbh) need to be able to make their faith their own. I’ve seen too many devout Catholic women who have been unable to keep their sons Catholic, I don’t think we should be blaming but rather looking at why their sons still leave.

Do you ask? Do you even know what goes on behind the scenes?

Declaring something is not sustainable simply, again, drops all parental responsibility. TALK to the priest.

If no males really do participate anywhere, than it might be time to move parishes.

Otherwise, one needs to stop making assumptions as to the viability of male-related activites.

 

[ConfusedLucy]

I’m not making assumptions I’m just commenting on what I see, many parishes only have the elderly involved, unless these folk all live until 125 something needs to be done in the near future so these traditions can be passed down.

I don’t have any sons but if I did I probably wouldn’t be confident that any of the parishes round my way would be helpful.