Meaning, do not keep them from coming to me...as this priest has done...
How has this priest, in very gravely reminding the parents of the importance of coming to Jesus in the Sunday Mass, kept the children away from Jesus?
It's like Orwell around here. The priest wants the kids going to Mass and wants them prepared for First Communion. He's very serious about it.
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Meaning, do not keep them from coming to me...as this priest has done...
No He didn't. Jesus said "Let the LITTLE children be, and do not hinder them from coming to me, for os such is the kingdom of heaven." The word used here refers to infants, not youths.
Anyway, the parents are the ones refusing to allow their children to experience salvation in Christ, since they refuse to take them to Mass. The Priest is not barring the door to them, but asking them to actually attend the Divine Worship.