Catholic in a Lutheran family

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Thanks, Gov. Here’s the thing: I did some praying and reflecting this afternoon and I was able to help my sister understand my position. We’re squared away.
 
Yeah. Now I just have to resolve the other at the moment issue of whether it’s a valid reason to miss Sunday Mass to see relatives, whom I don’t see that often; come into town.
 
I’m really happy. I can go to Mass while my brother, for example; is traveling to where I am and still be able to see him in the morning.
 
For future reference, your diocese ought to have a website that lists Mass and confession times for all the parishes in the area. That can come in handy when other events pop up and make attending Mass at your normal parish and time difficult.
 
Don Ruggero is a Priest. Listen to his advice.
 
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All (those who were baptised as Catholic and those in a different ecclesial denomination) make a profession of faith before they receive their first Holy Communion. This is for both children and adults.
 
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My youngest is wearing his dead mother’s rosary and my oldest started to read my copy of the Catechism
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I pray they’re doing that for all the right reasons. I hope they’re not doing it because they think you would expect them to, or they are wanting to make sure that you don’t go away, or that you will still love them. I hope you see what I’m saying.
 
I see what you’re saying, Cloisters. My youngest is wearing her rosary in memoriam of his mother. I offered to teach him how to pray the Rosary and he said not yet. I’ll have to let him know that wearing the rosary is a profession of faith in Jesus.

The oldest; I’m not sure why he read the Catechism.
 
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Yes; but for children over the age of reason who were baptized in another faith, there’s an actual process of conversion—as there is for adults.
 
It’s fine for non Catholics to pray the Rosary. Lutherans have faith in Jesus.
What is their age gap as twins.
 
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It’s fine for non Catholics to pray the Rosary.
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Yes, it is certainly fine for a non-Catholic to pray the Rosary…if they choose to.

In this case, this Lutheran child does not want to. That needs to be respected, as does the faith tradition into which he was initiated.

It is the parent who is now Catholic who consented to the children being Lutheran to begin with. That has consequences that remain long after the baptismal ceremony.

I think of all the times as a priest when I have baptised the children of non-practicing Catholics precisely because I had the founded hope they would be raised Catholic for two reasons:
  1. the parents consented to allowing their child to be baptised and raised in the Catholic faith – and
  2. there were relatives, such as this man’s parents and siblings, who declared they would see to the child’s upbringing in the Catholic faith.
Fortunately, our Canon Law will provide protection to these children, who have attained the use of reason – as well as protection of their religious liberty – since it is our Canon Law that determines the actions of the parish priest in the regard of these children.

The father can take them with him to Mass – but it is the priest and not the parent who determines if the children can be admitting to the sacraments. In this case, clearly the children should not be. They are practicing Lutherans. They have access to their Lutheran minister through every other member of their family, who are also Lutheran. Eventually, the children can decide if they wish to remain Lutheran or if they would like to seek full communion with the Roman Church.
 
Father; a Lutheran Baptism was the best I could do at the time. The mother originally wasn’t going to baptize them until I insisted. Both my family and her would’ve thrown a fit if I asked for a Catholic Baptism. As for their age gap; the twins are only a minute apart.
 
Thankyou Father. You are such a blessing to us.
 
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Father; a Lutheran Baptism was the best I could do at the time. The mother originally wasn’t going to baptize them until I insisted. Both my family and her would’ve thrown a fit if I asked for a Catholic Baptism. As for their age gap; the twins are only a minute apart.
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But to all the posters suggesting you put your foot down and tell your family to back off —this is when you had that opportunity. Instead, you consented to a Lutheran baptism and raising the children as Lutherans. Which they are.

I wonder what the people here would say to a Catholic grandparent who posted about their son converting to Lutheranism and planning to take their baptized Catholic grandchildren to the Lutheran Church with an eye to converting them. Would they tell the grandparents to back off then?
 
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