Changing times?

[Angela77]

At Mass, I observe that mostly elderly people attend. There really aren’t a lot of teens or young adults present. So here’s my question: Did the elderly people go to Mass as teens?

Essentially what I’m asking is, “Does going to Mass tend to be directly proportional to age no matter in what era you grew up? Or did people go to Mass more in years past and that generation simply continues to go regardless of age?”

Hopefully that makes sense.

Thanks!

 

[jonbhorton]

I think the issue is far too complex, but, I found this book : amazon.com/What-Went-Wrong-Vatican-Explained/dp/0918477794

to be of help.

The statistics in the book do not paint a pretty picture of now vs then.

That being said, before anyone jumps up shouting, the book is not anti-Vatican II. It’s explaining why people were anti-Vatican II and anti-Humanae Vitae and the result.

I did not purchase but I did find it at the local public library.

 

[Isla]

Well it’s hard to say. Probably young kids haven’t started taking their Faith as seriously as the grown-ups. Not necessarily teens are not as faithful as the senior citizens

However young people sometimes have other things they have to do. A freshman of my school had swim meet the other weekend from 7am to 8pm both days. So it’s not because she didn’t want to go to Church, but she couldn’t.

 

[pbr7w6]

I’m not sure a swim meet constitutes missing Mass.

 

[johnthebaptist1]

When I was a kid, in the 50ths, their were more kids going to Mass, because our parents took us to Mass with them,plus if you were going to Catholic School,ever morning the nuns would take us over to church to attend Mass. Since I was brought up in that time, I attened Mass every Sunday,and Holy Days. Today with the parents working on Sundays, many familys don,t get together to attend Mass, and if you do see some teenagers attending Mass with their parents today, they don,t follow the Mass, their either looking around or looking at each other,or goofing off, but some teens do pay attention, because they were broubht up the right way to acted in church. like their parents are. Your ever lucky to see them come in on their own. Some teens think Mass is boreing,and can,t wait to leave. That why,when older people died, their not many oihers young or middle age fiiling the gap.

 

[Leon_Bloy]

Many people don’t realize that to miss mass without a grave reason is an objective mortal sin. It was and still is!

Now, to the very many scrupulous people on here, missing mass a result of being sick, having a car accident on the way to mass, flying internationally all day, etc., does not make it a mortal sin.