Why do you think Catholics don't attend mass?

[santaro75]

In my parish we have over 1000 kids in CCD. The CCD teachers get maybe 5 to 6 hours training at the most. Most of them were poorly Catechized so they do a poor job. This has been going on for years so it is hard to find people who were properly Catechized or have studied the Catachism on their own. We are lucky enough to have a person in charge of the High School Catachism who did just that. He and his wife are turning that program around. In the last 3 years we have had 2 young men and a young lady from our parish begin training to become priests and a nun. Keep the faith and remember, “The gates of hell shall not prevail against the church!”

At a parish i was involved in it was the same case. I was put into the confirmation class and i had very little catechesis at the time. i was eager to help so they threw me in there and I had no idea what I was doing. I think there should be more emphasis on it.

I also taught the 7th graders for a while and that may as well have been baby sitting. what a complete waste of time. these kids wanted nothing to do with that class save about 2 out of 15. i wanted to throw them all out except for the 2. that is when i decided i shouldn’t be teaching ccd.