You’re right.
Good! Start by baptizing those sweet little baby-heads!!
It’s because the replies were towards this, not towards my initial question.
The confusing your children just does not resonate. It shows a complete lack of care and dedication that I intend to show my children. I do care about results and how we teach our children as parents is most important. And us being on the same page is critically important.
As a son of two parents from different Christian faiths …one of which was Catholic, I couldn’t more strongly agree with Fr. @edward_george1. Please listen to him!
Isn’t that true of all of us?
I think it’s because many of us are saying it’s not just about “results.” The process matters too. The Church is picky about some details. You can’t just gloss over them in the name of strong faith lives and similar end results.
But isn’t it more important that they become Catholic than the process or those picky details? I get lost in all the details. I want my kids to follow Jesus, have a rich prayer life, and to do that as a Catholic.
But the way you replied made me feel alienated and misunderstood.
It isn’t “more important” because you can’t separate the two. Think of this: how would you feel if you went to Mass & at the consecration the priest said “Hey, ya’ll! Jesus’s body is showing up! Yo! Here’s his blood!” Totally not the words of consecration, but why sweat the details?! Well, we sweat them because the Church teaches us that these particular details are indispensable. That doesn’t go for ALL details. Sometimes the priest has a choice on the color of his chausible. Or the style of the Church’s decor. Or whether he wants an organ or a piano. But some details are bits of essential stuff. Like your brain. It’s “details” matter. I can’t just excise a few millimeters of your brain and say “details schmetails! Most of his brain is still there! Sheesh.” But I can do that to your skin & you actually would be okay. See?? Some details are bits off essential stuff you can’t toss out. If the difference between essential bits & non-essential bits is unclear to you perhaps you’d enjoy a catechetical program. I believe Christendom College may offer one via distance learning? I thought I heard that recently. A good RCIA class might even help. Or read the Catechsim of the Catholic Church and Baltimore Catechism cover-to-cover In the comfort of your own home!
Wouldn’t like it at all. It’s the reason why I go to mass. I love the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. I said it was like going to heaven based on the book: The Lamb’s Supper. She loves the Fulfilled class as that explains the history of the church. She also respects that it’s from a Protestant convert.
Yes I have read that & was just telling my kids about it before Mass this Sunday.
Then you should push to have them baptized Catholic, in the Church headed by Christ, instead of letting them be baptized years later in a church not headed by Christ because their baptism is valid. You’re practically equating it to Catholic baptism just because it’s a valid one. So if it’s okay to be baptized outside of Catholicism because their baptism is valid, what else is okay? That church likely believes in the Trinity, they worship God too, so it must be okay to worship there instead of the Catholic Church, right?
Nope. The Catholic Church is the full church - the Protestant church in my opinion has pieces missing. Unless you understand why the mass is what it is, however, a church is a church, is a church.
Then stick to the Sacraments of the Catholic Church. Don’t let them get baptized outside of it, because they’ll be baptized outside of the Church.