Is it? I guess we should not accept non-parishioners either? Call me a Pharisee when the adult strangers I sponsor and gift with a Catholic Study Bible vanish after confirmation and I never see them again. Your criticism is Pharasaic. Provide a solution from behind your smartphone, please.
Is it? I guess we should not accept non-parishioners either? Call me a Pharisee when the adult strangers I sponsor and gift with a Catholic Study Bible vanish after confirmation and I never see them again. Your criticism is Pharasaic. Provide a solution from behind your smartphone, please.
Overly legalizing mass attendance with electronic tracking is legalistic. Yes. It is a legalistic policy.
No bearing on non parishioners attending I donтАЩt know what that even means. And it is not a personal attack on you or your commitment to serve in your parish.
This is not a loan from a bank. This is nota government agency program with proof of qualification. Conversion requires heart work. Not tech work. If people on rcia or sacramental prep are not invested enough to attend mass that becomes an issue between them and God. We canтАЩt make catechesis so transactional as to require QR codes like a restaurant menu. You can teach and lead and pray but ultimately a conversion is on THE PERSON (or the parents for little ones). Mass tracking is not the answer.
The heart work was supposed to be done by the parents for 7-16 years before Confirmation. Nearly everything that predicts faithfulness through young adulthood is related to the parents. Catechesis is the most non-parental part, and even that ought to have significant parental involvement. It is not sensible to expect catechists to make up, in 2 hours a week for 9 months of Confirmation classes, for years of religious neglect.
Putting lots of effort into people who don't care and won't stay is thoroughly demoralizing. When somewhere around 40% leave as teens/young adults, and the teachers and sponsors can do little about that, I think the only way to get along is to do it heartily for God, and to simultaneously be thoroughly detached from the results.
But there is another aspect that plays into Confirmation: The Confirmation sponsor has an obligation to "take care that the person confirmed behaves as a true witness of Christ and faithfully fulfills the duties inherent in this sacrament." It's not just an obligation to be nice to the sponsee and give them religious things. Perhaps this is the answer: sponsors who are convinced their sponsee is not going to remain Catholic, should refuse to sponsor them.
Oh i couldnтАЩt agree more! But this requirement was specified to be for RCIA too which would be adults new to the faith. Aka even more absurd to legalize attendance bc if they didnтАЩt want to be there why would they? But yes for children prep I second your points 1000 percent
Is it? I guess we should not accept non-parishioners either? Call me a Pharisee when the adult strangers I sponsor and gift with a Catholic Study Bible vanish after confirmation and I never see them again. Your criticism is Pharasaic. Provide a solution from behind your smartphone, please.
Overly legalizing mass attendance with electronic tracking is legalistic. Yes. It is a legalistic policy.
No bearing on non parishioners attending I donтАЩt know what that even means. And it is not a personal attack on you or your commitment to serve in your parish.
This is not a loan from a bank. This is nota government agency program with proof of qualification. Conversion requires heart work. Not tech work. If people on rcia or sacramental prep are not invested enough to attend mass that becomes an issue between them and God. We canтАЩt make catechesis so transactional as to require QR codes like a restaurant menu. You can teach and lead and pray but ultimately a conversion is on THE PERSON (or the parents for little ones). Mass tracking is not the answer.
The heart work was supposed to be done by the parents for 7-16 years before Confirmation. Nearly everything that predicts faithfulness through young adulthood is related to the parents. Catechesis is the most non-parental part, and even that ought to have significant parental involvement. It is not sensible to expect catechists to make up, in 2 hours a week for 9 months of Confirmation classes, for years of religious neglect.
Putting lots of effort into people who don't care and won't stay is thoroughly demoralizing. When somewhere around 40% leave as teens/young adults, and the teachers and sponsors can do little about that, I think the only way to get along is to do it heartily for God, and to simultaneously be thoroughly detached from the results.
But there is another aspect that plays into Confirmation: The Confirmation sponsor has an obligation to "take care that the person confirmed behaves as a true witness of Christ and faithfully fulfills the duties inherent in this sacrament." It's not just an obligation to be nice to the sponsee and give them religious things. Perhaps this is the answer: sponsors who are convinced their sponsee is not going to remain Catholic, should refuse to sponsor them.
Oh i couldnтАЩt agree more! But this requirement was specified to be for RCIA too which would be adults new to the faith. Aka even more absurd to legalize attendance bc if they didnтАЩt want to be there why would they? But yes for children prep I second your points 1000 percent