Why go to Mass? God is everywhere

[atassina]

OK.
How about an answer that works. An answer that you have tested with an actual kid. I keep asking the same question: Did you actually try out my telephone reply or another that actually worked?

I’m not looking for a Thomas Aquinas response, a JP2 response, some response that is so high theology it would cross a theologians eyes. I am looking for a reply that actually worked with a real kid.

How’s about we stop losing generational information and start passing it on as collective wisdom?

 

[ProVobis]

Seems to me most of you do not have children by your responses. Rebellious 14 year olds most likely will not respond to the Baltimore Catechism or theological explanations dealing with the reasons why we worship each week.

How many of you have tested your answers on rebellious or resistant children?

I am no psychologist, but I would think you have at least some chance if they are rebellious or resistant. If you’re dealing with apathy due to interest in other things, then good luck.

 

[Confiteor_Deo]

OK.
How about an answer that works. An answer that you have tested with an actual kid. I keep asking the same question: Did you actually try out my telephone reply or another that actually worked?

I’m not looking for a Thomas Aquinas response, a JP2 response, some response that is so high theology it would cross a theologians eyes. I am looking for a reply that actually worked with a real kid.

How’s about we stop losing generational information and start passing it on as collective wisdom?

I do not have children and am actually myself an adolescent, so I can’t say this from the perspective of a parent. That said, I have seen and done some things that have worked.

For me, it comes down to discipline of the child. If they are told to do something, they will do it if they have discipline. If they rebel against your commands, then due punishment should be carried out. If a child refuses to be subordinate to God even after parental command, it is a lack of discipline that is one of the culprits, as well as a lack of faith, and they must be punished for it. This is what my mother did with all of us and we quickly learned to obey her at all times, including to go to Mass. She made the most rebellious person I know go to Mass and to sit still.

My younger brother often calls me his third parent because I have disciplined him a lot over the years and this has changed him dramatically. He used to refuse to hear Mass with us, and so I taught him why he should. I told him what Mass was and that he was going to Hell for not going, subsequently I told him what Hell was like. This soon changed his mind. I doubt telling a rebellious child a superficial saying is going to change their ways. If I told my brother something simple, he wouldn’t have cared and would’ve dismissed it. They need to know reality. If they are adamant, you must be adamant.