Let’s try this again! Age Poll #3 👵🏻

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Lia said:
Woah late teens and young adults are in the lead, good sign that there are still post-millennial Catholics. I rarely see young people in church by themselves though.
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You’d love coming to our military chapel. It makes me happy to see young soldiers and airmen ducking in for Mass in uniform. 🙂 There are quite a few in the noon Mass on Sundays - which is both nice to see them coming and nice to know they have supervisors that try to make it possible when they can.
 
brian_custer said:
OK, shipmate; i voted

saw the “so far” results

surprised how skewed towards younger folks this place is

i will keep that in mind…
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It actually is good information. Maybe it will help us all communicate a bit better.

Who is the 96-100 year old, or is someone having a laugh?
 
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I am old enough to remember when the concept of ‘duty and responsibility’ came before ‘my rights’, and before the age of the Comet, and passenger jet aircraft, and when only rich folks had 'phones in their homes, and when pews were usually filled for Mass on Sundays and Holy Days of Obligation - oh, so long ago it seems.
 
I went to mass in the chapel at my uni once. There was the priest, one Eucharistic minister, one alter boy, one reader… and I was the only regular person there, a bit lonely.
 
There’s probably a bit of difference in a university and a military base (at least there is by my experiences with both). We also have five Masses across two installations on Sundays. I’ve seen soldiers in every one, in uniform. I didn’t say they packed the pews. I said it was nice to see them there because it speaks on two levels: their bosses make the time when it’s possible, and they’re there in the first place.
 
I’m not 21 yet, but I’m turning 21 in September so I rounded up.
 
My uni has 50,000 current students though (same campus) and no one turned up. It’s really sad, the future for the Church isn’t looking very good here. I’m glad where you are from youth mass attendance is still good.
 
Maybe that will change. Maybe you could get with the priest and see if you can promote your Newman Center? I’m assuming a university of that size has one.
 
Lia said:
Woah late teens and young adults are in the lead, good sign that there are still post-millennial Catholics. I rarely see young people in church by themselves though.
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I’m one of the exceptions. My mom is the only person in my family who goes regularly, but I’m still alone too often.
 
Lia - About 10 years back, we had a bad spell of snow here in Sheffield, UK, and I really wanted to attend Monday morning Mass at my parish church. Because of my personal health issues {could not push the car off the road if/when it got stuck - also the slope of my driveway and the counter-slope of my cul-de-sac - also the fact that such a road would have lowest priority for snow clearance. Never-the-less I sat in my living room [approx. 5am], looking out as the snow lashed down, and prayed. Within 10 minutes of my praying, a plough and gritter of the size and type I had never seen before or since drove up and down as I looked out, I didn’t get to see who was driving {I get a ‘feeling’ it was an ‘angel’ of some sort.] Even the snow abated, for me, so it seemed. Health shot old me was the only one who managed to attend that Mass, apart from the PP, who didn’t have to go outdoors anyway. .
 
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