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Personal Experience - Elizabeth
Dear All,
There are a couple of points I would like to make.
- We too try to
teach our children that Mass is reverant and we try to teach them
the proper way to behave. The issue I have with that is, try as we
may, we discovered that children are all very different. Our first
son, we quietly refer to as the good son. No matter what you tell
him to do, he will do it. At Mass when he was a year old, you could
hold your finger to your lips and he would quiet down, then repeat
the action to those around him. We thought we were great parents and
then we had another. OH, BOY what a shock. What a spaz. We always
look at each other and say what happened? Same parents, same discipline,
what is going on? We spent many a Mass in the back, until he was three.
Please, trust me that we tried everything we could.
- We were always
aware that when he got loud we went to the back. If the person who's
turn it was felt he missed something they went again to the 11:00
Mass alone. I would have never dreamed of splitting up the family
to go to different masses.
- Why is it that
Catholic Churches always lack a nursery? Ask any Protestant and they
probably have one at their church. It was just this year that the
8th grade Confirmation students volunteered a nursery for the 9:00
Mass to fulfill their requirements for Community service.
- Let the children
come unto me. I am just wondering what Jesus would say if he were
here.
- If a baby is screaming during the Homily any parent with any kind of respect would leave and go to the back. Is it really the screaming or the babbling that is making them upset? Babbling is fine with me. Don't you think that the average mom with a screaming infant is just as frazzled as you are? Or if they happen to have the spaz child, that they may even be embarrassed? (trust me, I know) Offer up a prayer for them, they need it.
Mass is a prayer and the family that prays together stays together.
Peace,
Elizabeth
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