I found a book called Growing Up Catholic today that's pretty much a tongue in cheek guideto childhood in a Catholic family. It was joking about confession being a chance for you to make up ridiculous fake sins in order to seem more pious for knowing those ones and confirmation being a chance to pick a cool new name. I was laughing at the book until it hit me that the joking manner in which the author described Catholicism is actually the way a lot of Catholics, especially children, view the Church. We make kids memorize prayers and recite confessions and before long, we have whole generations of children who know next to nothing of the actual love and depth of Mother Church. I laugh at the ridiculousness of my "Catholic" education a lot, but it really shouldn't be funny. We should be raising kids to truly understand and love God and the Church to the best of their abilities,and anything short of that goal should make us weep in shame for failing to pass on the Faith properly to future generations.

I'm praying for you!

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