How to respond to fanatic claim?

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My family calls me a fantic for going to church every Sunday. It seems like they are equally shocked each week when I am prepraing to leave for mass.
I have been a Catholic for 6 months now. I live in a society where regular church attendence is at 5 %.

How to respond?
 
I just wouldn’t respond and let the comment linger there. If you do respond you might set yourself up for comments.

I remember one Easter I took my kids to Mass during the BEGINNING of a day long family affair and my mother looked at me and rolled my eyes and say “Why?” She is a cradle catholic who has quit going to Church years before that. I just “packed up” the kids and left.

Sorry you have to deal with that.
 
Remind them of the verse to keep Holy the Sabbath and go about your business.
 
Are you a dependent still living under their authority?

If not, simply smile and say “that is one way to look at it” and go about your business. Let them see the joy in you, let them ask to go to Mass with you because they want the joy you have.
 
I don’t think there’s a good response. Reasonable people could discuss this; however, your family is making unfounded attacks on you. Can you move out? I wouldn’t be able to remain civil having myself called a fanatic…
 
It reminds me of my brother-in-law who calls my family “super Catholics” because we go to mass “every” Sunday and on Holy Days. He’d likely be completely bewildered about me and some of my kids going to Mass every day. 🤣

Really I wouldn’t respond to your family at all. My wife converted about 3 years before I did and her example of going every week lead to my eventual conversion. It was only afterwards that I learned she spent that whole time offering up everything for my conversion. Sometimes the best option is just to let any comments flow over you and take the hurts to Christ.
 
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Sorry you have to deal with that. I’d ignore it if I was you, they’ll get bored soon and if they don’t their cries of fanatic will become more curious (so really why do you go?) and then you can reply with why.
In the meantime, content yourself knowing they are secretly jealous even if they don’t know they are.
I think you are brave
 
Do as I do, ignore it. I am a convert and my family is Protestant. I get the looks and the name calling behind my back, but I refuse to acknowledge their ignorance.
 
Sounds like a beautiful sign that you are living the life Jesus wished! As He said, “Blessed are you when men hate you, and ostracize you, and insult you, and scorn your name as evil, for the sake of the Son of Man.” There’s lots of good advice in your thread from the others, and I especially love the idea of letting them see the joy you have in attending Mass and receiving our Lord’s sacred body in Holy Communion so that perhaps they, too, might want to experience that peace and joy someday. May our dear Lord continue to keep you in His loving care ---- “Blessed are you!!”
 
Sometimes silence is the best way to respond. Continue to go to mass and live the holiness that God is calling you to live. Don’t argue with them or feel like you have to debate with them. If they respect you then they will let you be and who knows you may be the cause of someone else converting.
 
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