Missing mass on vacation

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In regard to minor children, does the tail wag the dog?
This is not Catholic teaching.
 
I promise you are not the first Catholic to visit this resort. Call or email the concierge desk and ask if Catholic Mass is celebrated at the resort or if there is a nearby Church that is in a safe place.

“Mom and Dad, there is this beautiful historic Church one block from the gate of Las Pleasure Resort. Wouldn’t it be neat to go experience Mass and see the building?”
 
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We are dispensed from the obligation to attend Mass in cases of impossibility. It’s impossible for you to go to Mass. Be at peace.
 
Neither is it Catholic teaching for parents to deprive children of God’s grace. It is right and just to protest such constraints. For such negligence is not honorable in father or mother.
 
Encouraging a family discussion on the matter is neither rude or impolite. It is, merely, a family discussion. Hopefully, no one condones children missing Sunday Mass through parental negligence. Indeed, surely we’ve all heard this addressed in a homily before.
 
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TheOldColonel said:
Encouraging a family discussion on the matter is neither rude or impolite. It is, merely, a family discussion. Hopefully, no one condones children missing Sunday Mass through parental negligence.
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You suggest badgering a parent. That’s not “family discussion” that’s being obnoxious.

And yes, we do condone a minor missing mass if their family will not allow it. We are not permitted to do otherwise. CAF is not a place where minors can get ideas on how to disobey–even if it’s a Catholic matter.
 
And, so another generation of lapsed Catholics is born. Sad.
 
Also, pray for your parents and for yourself. Pray the Divine Mercy conversion prayer, ask Bl. Laura Vicuna for her intercession in their conversion, pray for the grace of obedience. God will hear and be pleased.
 
You are very correct. The moral Gravity is entirely upon the parents in such a situation.
 
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Not always. St. Francis of Assisi disobeyed his parents by becoming a monk.
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Being a minor is different than being someone’s child. Minors are someone’s children, but after the age of majority one is free to disobey parents and we are permitted to enable that behavior.
 
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