OMG!!! They need GIMMICKS????? The Holy Eucharist doesn’t need any GIMMICKS!! This is disgusting.....Massachusetts is a VILE place.
(sigh) It’s bad enough that 40 years of bad catechetics has made two generations of Catholic parents almost totally ignorant of the Faith. Now, it’s come to THIS with the third generation?
There once was an Age of Piety in Europe, when most everyone had sufficient knowledge of the Faith to cooperate with God’s grace and get a good leg up on saving their souls, and this while most folks were illiterate. The Mass was not dumbed-down for their sake, AFAIK. Now, in an age with near-full literacy, universal access to mass media, computers, the Internet, and any number of other superb outlets for catechetics people in former times couldn’t even dream of, we’re reduced to silly puppet shows replacing the Gospel at Mass???
Were it not for my full faith in Christ’s promise of Matthew 16:18 and Matthew 28:20 to be with the Church till the end, I would throw up my hands in despair and admit that “We’re doomed!” Only a miracle of grace can bring about a Restoration if this nonsense goes on unchecked much longer.
As for your comment on Massachusetts: as an inmate myself of that unfortunate plot of earth, I can only say that I couldn’t agree with you more!
“Libera nos, quaesumus, Domine, ab omnibus malis, praeteritis, praesentibus et futuris!”