How's expecting Confirmation to straighten out wayward youths been working out for the past forty years?
Is your parish jammed with young folks who shaped up after confirmation?
Or, are the majority of those who received confirmation with no strings attached absent without leave, doing their own thing, and while doing their own thing, claiming to be Catholic and thereby thereby slandering the name of His Church?
It cost's nothing so it must be worth nothing, that's the way it looks to this kid and his parents both. It's a cute little tradition like a new Hallmark ornament every year and not much more.
Paaa den the stutter of , “thereby thereby”, LOL
“It cost’s nothing so it must be worth nothing, that’s the way it looks to this kid and his parents both. It’s a cute little tradition like a new Hallmark ornament every year and not much more. “
That’s typical of most Catholics in upscale suburban parishes these days. You get your kid confirmed because its something you’re supposed to do, even if you have to bribe them with something like a cellphone (I’m not admitting anything here!) to get through CCD. Most teenagers and young adults thing religion is a gimmick. They don’t return to the faith as a rule, unless there’s some crisis like a health scare than sends them back into the embrace of Jesus.