Is it appropriate for my children to "play" Mass?

[AdamP88]

Adam! What a beautiful wedding photo! I don’t mean to go off topic, it’s just that this is the first time I saw it!

Thanks, I just put it up.That was two days after our wedding at the Sposii Novelli Blessing in St. Peter’s Square.

 

[WT1]

Like others, I do feel it is appropriate, however, I think it would be inappropriate to allow a daughter (if you have one) to play the priest as when she grows older she might desire to be a priest and that is NOT possible in the Catholic Church. She could pretend to be a religious sister and set up the altar for the boy playing the priest.

If you go to a religious store they generally have coloring books of the Mas and prayer books with the prayers that are said at Mass that they can use at church to help them follow the Mass.

To find a place you might google Liturgical Centers or Religious Good Store or Religious Book Stores.

Herculees

It would be inappropriate to discourage any child from learning more about the Mass and fostering a connection to it. True recognition of gender separation happens later and the children have plenty of time to learn and understand church dogma.

They should be encouraged to foster a love for the Mass in their own way as soon as they show interest.

Signed

Loving Father of Daughters

 

[Hoosier_Daddy]

It would be inappropriate to discourage any child from learning more about the Mass and fostering a connection to it. True recognition of gender separation happens later and the children have plenty of time to learn and understand church dogma.

They should be encouraged to foster a love for the Mass in their own way as soon as they show interest.

Signed

Loving Father of Daughters

I’ve got four daughters. I don’t mind if they “play” around the elements of the Mass. I would draw the line at play concecration or play vestiments. That is easy for me to say because I have a son they can “dress up”

But I supposeyou could say the same thing about playing marriage or house. Hopefully you wouldn’t encourage them to think they could marry another girl or thier sisters. You want to foster a love for marriage the priesthood and Mass. One can do so without gender bending

 

[Mary_Gail_36]

I’ve got four daughters. I don’t mind if they “play” around the elements of the Mass. I would draw the line at play concecration or play vestiments. That is easy for me to say because I have a son they can “dress up”

But I supposeyou could say the same thing about playing marriage or house. Hopefully you wouldn’t encourage them to think they could marry another girl or thier sisters. You want to foster a love for marriage the priesthood and Mass. One can do so without gender bending

When my cousin and I were little, I guess 4 or 5 we would play wedding, and one of us would be the bride and get all fancy with a bed sheet wedding gown. The other would be the groom, or as we called it broom. Then we’d switch.

Neither one of us grew up gay, and playing the groom was always the second choice.

 

[Hoosier_Daddy]

When my cousin and I were little, I guess 4 or 5 we would play wedding, and one of us would be the bride and get all fancy with a bed sheet wedding gown. The other would be the groom, or as we called it broom. Then we’d switch.

Neither one of us grew up gay, and playing the groom was always the second choice.

“It’s a different day Will”.

Sarah Cunningham to John Wayne in “The Cowboys”

 

[detoutcoeur]

We are new to the Catholic faith and so somewhat new to Mass. My children, ranging from almost 2 to 11 have pretended to say Mass a few times during their play times. They even got out a cup for the chalice and had a pretend homily, etc. I was just wondering, is it offensive or wrong in some way for them to play Mass, or is it totally fine?

They’re in good company. As children, St. Teresa of Avila and her brother, Rodrigo, used to “play hermits”: “[M]y brother and I set about becoming hermits, and in an orchard belonging to the house, we contrived, as well as we could to build hermitages by piling up small stones one on the other, which fell down immediately…”

Being hermits was their second choice, though. They had first tried to leave home to become martyrs “in the country of the Moors”, but “when they had crossed the bridge, they were met by one of their uncles, who brought them back to their mother.”

The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus

 

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