According to the article, the little girl wanting so ardently to be a Catholic is only eight years old. Amazing. One little gal in our RCIA class is only 15, and swimming upstream against the current of her family to be there --- but eight?!
The Lord Jesus is calling her. God bless the atheist/agnostic dad who is allowing her to respond.
What do you think?
I haven’t read the other thread of the same title but received quite a few pings on it:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3111843/posts
Interesting. Touched by angels, no doubt! At [children’s Mass] today, the priest, during the homily, asked the student body, how they thought we should go about evangelizing, and one 2nd-grader raised her hand, and said, “We need to go church all day.” :)
I cannot remember the verse, but I do remember "... a child shall lead them."
I believe that's what's happening here.
My Wife and I are Atheists, but Our Daughter Wants to be Baptised Catholic
How can anyone in their right mind be an atheist? Not to bash these people but at the very LEAST just the fact of mere existence proves there is a God. There could be nothing but that is not the case at all. I think therefore I am.
I'm agnostic now. I just don't know.
Well at least someone in the family will be praying for them once these 2 hit purgatory.
A touching story. My parents had no religion and never went to church, but I was fortunate enough to have an Aunt who was concerned about me and persuaded my parents to let me go to church, so I could make up my own mind when I got older.
It certainly made all the difference. I grew up Episcopalian and then converted to Catholicism in college. But I don’t imagine that I’d ever have become a Catholic if I hadn’t been exposed to church services for all those years.
When I was a kid, my parents found some neighbors who agreed to take me to church with them, since it was a pretty long drive.
MOST likely atheists. I’m afraid to ask what the less likely alternative is for them.
A blatant case of child neglect and child abuse if these atheists are hindering their daughter’s desire to become Catholic.
I doubt that the authorities will step in, but some action should be taken to make sure this girl is saved from the evil desires of those atheists.
Obviously the parents failed to raise the child wrong!
Maybe the child will now be a Godly influence on the parents.
“She’s taken a first step down a road that, ultimately, she’ll have to travel on her own.”
More probably correct is: “The parents have taken first step down a road that, ultimately, they will have to travel alone on their own.”
“What do you think?”
I think very highly of the parents for permitting her to do this, many would not do that. And I hope this girl continues to live a happy faith-filled life.
RCIA for children?
http://www.amazon.com/An-Atheist-Defends-Religion-Humanity/dp/1592578543
It’s by a high school classmate of mine.
That is often how whole families come into the Church, via the children, young people.
Bless them both.
As I said on the other thread, with apologies to C. S. Lewis, an atheist who wants to pass it on to his children really cannot be too careful of their schooling.