Recently, my eight-year-old son told me that he thinks the Mass is boring. Has it changed much now that you're a teenager? When I was eight, I didn’t have to go to Mass because I wasn’t Catholic. I didn’t have a denomination. When it was time for me to go to church, I went to “Kids on the Move” where church was actually fun. As soon as you walked up the stairs, you were greeted with a ticket to hold on to. You got a second ticket if you brought your Bible. If you collected enough tickets, you could trade them in for prizes at the Bible store. The group leader worked at a chocolate factory so when we were good or answered the questions correctly, we got full-size Paydays. We also got giant candy bars if we won the “Sword Drills" which were races to see who could find Scripture verses the fastest.
I grew up as a cradle Catholic prior to Vatican II with Catholic schooling and the Latin Mass, but ended up as agnostic by the time I was 20. About 10 years later, I found a Christianity in Scripture that I could apply towards improving my personal life. This was not the case during my upbringing. I now use it in my present Catholicism even though there is hardly any support for it. It is a simple personal entrustment or consecration directly to God. Bible verses that instructed me in this are: James 4:5-10; 1Peter 5:5-7; Philippians 4:6-7; Galatians 5:16-26; Proverbs 3:5-6; Matthew 6:25-34, 11:28-30; Psalms 37:7, 55:22; Isaiah 26:3-4, 30:15, 55:6-9; John 6:63; Romans 13:14; 6:13; 8:28.
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This is great. I am going to pass it along to my parish youth director!
I grew up as a cradle Catholic prior to Vatican II with Catholic schooling and the Latin Mass, but ended up as agnostic by the time I was 20. About 10 years later, I found a Christianity in Scripture that I could apply towards improving my personal life. This was not the case during my upbringing. I now use it in my present Catholicism even though there is hardly any support for it. It is a simple personal entrustment or consecration directly to God. Bible verses that instructed me in this are: James 4:5-10; 1Peter 5:5-7; Philippians 4:6-7; Galatians 5:16-26; Proverbs 3:5-6; Matthew 6:25-34, 11:28-30; Psalms 37:7, 55:22; Isaiah 26:3-4, 30:15, 55:6-9; John 6:63; Romans 13:14; 6:13; 8:28.