Non-clicky poll re: religious services

JessiJane777

oct11bride03:

ddelo23:

LizDP:

We are lazy. That is why. I can't lie!! 

Yea - that too - I didn't want to admit it, but since you did, I will! haha

Yes, please be honest.   I'm asking because nothing anyone has said surprises me (and I've RPed this on other boards I frequent) and helps me explain this generation's mindset to the older folks.

This, 100%.  I have my issues, but want my daughter to know she has a choice to go...I will go back eventually, and hope it will be weekly. 

JessiJane777

oct11bride03:

ddelo23:

LizDP:

We are lazy. That is why. I can't lie!! 

Yea - that too - I didn't want to admit it, but since you did, I will! haha

Yes, please be honest.   I'm asking because nothing anyone has said surprises me (and I've RPed this on other boards I frequent) and helps me explain this generation's mindset to the older folks.

 

This, 100%.  I have my issues, but want my daughter to know she has a choice to go...I will go back eventually, and hope it will be weekly. 

wed2506

I was raised catholic and attended church regularly until my mid 20's. After that it was maybe once a month or so. Once I had kids everything changed. The effort to get them & me ready is just too much. I know it's a lame excuse and I do feel guilty at times but it is what it is. I do teach my daughter about God & Jesus and had her in a Catholic school last year which was a big help. 

wed2506

kellyann1972:

we go every week now. We are Catholic, Ryan is making his first penance and first communion this year. Its important for us to go. We used to slack because we were lazy but now we are good about going.

 

If you don't mind me asking, did this change once he started CCD, is that when you started attending regularly again? I keep telling myself once she is in weekly CCD class it will force me to get my act together and start attending regularly again. She starts next year so it's not too far off. LOL 

LaVitaBella

I go weekly, as in we haven't missed a week in the 5 years we have been married. That isn't my doing....my husband grew up very religious so that's the norm for him. I will give my family's perspectve: my parents were both raised Catholic. My mom took us every once in awhile. She didn't like going alone with us three and my dad, while he believed we needed church and to make our sacraments, didn't and doesn't attend unless it's Vhrismas. I can say that as we were older it was a combo of wanting to sleep later and sports that kept us from going. I didn't know you "had" to go to Mass, I just thought it was frowned upon but not a Church rule. I think what those people that try to figure out why people are "fallen away" need to know (the phrase they use in our church for people who don't attend) is that a lot of people like my parents don't consider themselves inactive. Their kids made sacraments there, they go on holidays, they expected us to get married there and raise our kids Catholic. I feel like churches sometimes are trying to find this enormous reason for people not attending when sometimes it's just because they always just went sporadically.

LaVitaBella

Oh and I actually do like going now. I didn't growing up because we went so infrequently that I kind of felt like an outsider. It is nice to be part of a community now. We know more people from town because of church, it was the first place that reularly connected us to the town we moved to. When we adopte our daughter we had meals provided to us for two months and a carload of baby supplies that people gave because we got her in such short notice. So....our experiece is good. I am sure it helps that my husband works at the affiliated school, but it's a nice place.

kellyann1972

yes CCD had a lot to do with it. I mean how hypocritical is it to make him for for an hour and a half a week and not even attend mass. And I TEACH CCD so then its doubly worse LOL PLus the teachers, we all know who goes and doesn't go. There is no way they can learn what they want them to learn without going to mass either. This is a big sacrament year for us, First Penance and Communion so we go every week to mass. 

 

LisaBRM

It is a big commitment to go to temple services every week.  Friday night services are in the 2 hour range and Saturday morning services are in the 3-3.5 hour range.  However, that is just an excuse (as opposed to a real reason) for not going because, in reality, I wish I could make the commitment, but, I just can't, I guess, for the same laziness reason that others have already expressed.  I really enjoy going and hope that, as Alana gets older, it will help me make that commitment.  She is in a jewish preschool and, already I am excited about the kids services I see on the calendar.