This was really good Teresa. You know someone in our Parish said to me the other day, “We need to do something to make the Mass more “attractive” for our youth so they will want to come.” And of course you know me, and it went all through me, and out the mouth it came! She is a mother of three teenage boys.
I asked her, “How do we change the Mass to become “more attractive to our youth, since all was set in place on the night Jesus instituted the Holy Eucharist? We have the Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus among us and this is not “attractive” enough for your children?”
Then I asked her, “What kind of an example are you setting at home for your kids regarding The Church? Are you telling them what the Mass is truly about, that it is about us offering ourselves to Jesus and Him accepting this offer and giving Himself to us? Are you talking in a negative way in front of them, about the Church, our Priest, or those who are members of our Parish?”
I told her, “You are the adult. The parent. It is up to you, to make sure your children understand the true meaning of the Mass and how beautiful it is. If you begin to gossip about others in the Church you need to be aware of that sixteen year old standing beside you, when you do?”
Of course I got total silence. I mean not one word. A walk off. But I meant it Teresa. To me the Catholic Church is the “beauty of God.” That is how I see it, and because I view it this way, I need nothing else. I fight all the time even with our Bishop about the Protestant things which are making there way into the Church. Not that I have anything against a Protestant, but the Catholic Church is not a Protestant Church. It doesn’t need to be one. We have every single thing we need to help us maintain our salvation. We have Jesus, what else do we need?
I think you are too focused on sex and relationship issues, in isolation. The churches need militants, for sure. Jesus was enraged when the moneylenders set up shop in the Synagog. He was aware his society was collapsing and corrupting under the force of Roman occupation and Pharisic abuse of position.
Today we are a society run completely by the spiritual descendents of those moneylenders, who also control the media. The issues you seem mosty concerned with are being run through the media (TV, mostly) mind control games, and people are being programmed for ‘loser’ behaviours. All the behaviours you’re criticising are glamourized on the tube.
If Christians don’t rise up, and fight the source of this, well, it’s all going down…People need proper role models, and if you expect young people to do well and do the right thing(s) without jobs, hope, or people of quality to look up to, you’re expecting too much.
Yes, the churches are passive, but to only chastize the masses and not the ‘kings’ of our world, is simply not going to work.
This was really good Teresa. You know someone in our Parish said to me the other day, “We need to do something to make the Mass more “attractive” for our youth so they will want to come.” And of course you know me, and it went all through me, and out the mouth it came! She is a mother of three teenage boys.
I asked her, “How do we change the Mass to become “more attractive to our youth, since all was set in place on the night Jesus instituted the Holy Eucharist? We have the Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus among us and this is not “attractive” enough for your children?”
Then I asked her, “What kind of an example are you setting at home for your kids regarding The Church? Are you telling them what the Mass is truly about, that it is about us offering ourselves to Jesus and Him accepting this offer and giving Himself to us? Are you talking in a negative way in front of them, about the Church, our Priest, or those who are members of our Parish?”
I told her, “You are the adult. The parent. It is up to you, to make sure your children understand the true meaning of the Mass and how beautiful it is. If you begin to gossip about others in the Church you need to be aware of that sixteen year old standing beside you, when you do?”
Of course I got total silence. I mean not one word. A walk off. But I meant it Teresa. To me the Catholic Church is the “beauty of God.” That is how I see it, and because I view it this way, I need nothing else. I fight all the time even with our Bishop about the Protestant things which are making there way into the Church. Not that I have anything against a Protestant, but the Catholic Church is not a Protestant Church. It doesn’t need to be one. We have every single thing we need to help us maintain our salvation. We have Jesus, what else do we need?
Good video and thanks for sharing. God Bless, SR
I think you are too focused on sex and relationship issues, in isolation. The churches need militants, for sure. Jesus was enraged when the moneylenders set up shop in the Synagog. He was aware his society was collapsing and corrupting under the force of Roman occupation and Pharisic abuse of position.
Today we are a society run completely by the spiritual descendents of those moneylenders, who also control the media. The issues you seem mosty concerned with are being run through the media (TV, mostly) mind control games, and people are being programmed for ‘loser’ behaviours. All the behaviours you’re criticising are glamourized on the tube.
If Christians don’t rise up, and fight the source of this, well, it’s all going down…People need proper role models, and if you expect young people to do well and do the right thing(s) without jobs, hope, or people of quality to look up to, you’re expecting too much.
Yes, the churches are passive, but to only chastize the masses and not the ‘kings’ of our world, is simply not going to work.
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