[SpirituTuo]

Amen to that! As a child of the ‘70s and ‘80s, confession was rarely spoken of at Mass, or it is possible I didn’t hear about it (or listen to it).

Fortunately, I have seen and heard more words and actions from the pulpit encouraging confession, and in different parishes, pretty good sized lines.

With all of the activities children are encouraged to participate in, it is no wonder family life has suffered. How can you have a family dinner when nobody is there?

[Alex Murphy]

Growing up in New Albany, Ind., during the 1950s, I never heard the term “domestic church,” but I knew what it meant. I knew it because my parents and my friends’ parents made their homes domestic churches, even before that phrase from our Catholic tradition was retrieved during the Second Vatican Council. I guess you could say that my childhood friends and neighbors were at home in church and in church at home. But what did it mean in practical terms that we experienced the family as a domestic church? For one thing, it meant that nearly every Catholic family we knew went to Mass each Sunday.

People who ‘church themselves’ every Lord’s Day PING

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

I wonder if there is still a tradition of chapel cabinets, small cabinets with a cross, an icon and family picture, a candle, and perhaps a rosary? And a small “prie dieu”, or kneeling bench.