Confession tracker booklet?

[Michael_Mayo]

Required by who? You cannot force people to go to confession. And the surest way to having those teens turned off is to make them go. That needs to be rethought.

And yet even the Church requires attendance at Mass on Sundays and Holy Days of Obligation under pain of “grave sin”.

2181 The Sunday Eucharist is the foundation and confirmation of all Christian practice. For this reason the faithful are obliged to participate in the Eucharist on days of obligation, unless excused for a serious reason (for example, illness, the care of infants) or dispensed by their own pastor. Those who deliberately fail in this obligation commit a grave sin.

How many Catholics go to Mass out of sheer obligation and guilt. I don’t think that’s what God wants. It really seems to foster a legal minimalism. We should do these things because we want to and not because we fear punishment or the Church is making us go. And I know people with legitimate reasons not to go such as illness and still either go out of guilt or don’t go and feel they have committed Mortal Sin.

 

[johnnyc176]

What makes it wrong is who is doing the tracking. You keeping track of your own confessions, fine. Some people do that, **on a calendar. ** what is wrong is for someone else to keep track of when you go.

Really? What about a Spiritual Director?

 

[Irishmom2]

And yet even the Church requires attendance at Mass on Sundays and Holy Days of Obligation under pain of “grave sin”.

2181 The Sunday Eucharist is the foundation and confirmation of all Christian practice. For this reason the faithful are obliged to participate in the Eucharist on days of obligation, unless excused for a serious reason (for example, illness, the care of infants) or dispensed by their own pastor. Those who deliberately fail in this obligation commit a grave sin.

How many Catholics go to Mass out of sheer obligation and guilt. I don’t think that’s what God wants. It really seems to foster a legal minimalism. We should do these things because we want to and not because we fear punishment or the Church is making us go. And I know people with legitimate reasons not to go such as illness and still either go out of guilt or don’t go and feel they have committed Mortal Sin.

Really? What about a Spiritual Director?

It seems like you both are looking for some sort of “gotcha” moment, when in reality, neither of you are sticking to the subject. We are speaking about one situation-- the teens in a confirmation class. Don’t go twisting my words trying to make them apply somewhere else.

 

[Michael_Mayo]

It seems like you both are looking for some sort of “gotcha” moment, when in reality, neither of you are sticking to the subject. We are speaking about one situation-- the teens in a confirmation class. Don’t go twisting my words trying to make them apply somewhere else.

Not twisting your words. I know you didn’t mean to get into Mass obligations. It just seemed to me that the same principle is involved.

 

[pianistclare]

No, it’s not the same principle.
I can’t believe this thread is still limping along.
One can’t treat parents or teens like errant children. If they don’t believe in the value of Confession by now, that ship has sailed. All you can do is attempt GREAT catechesis to change hearts.
Unsubscribing.