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A Catholic mother says:
At our church there is someone who brings her unruly infants to Mass, and one of them even tries to sing (wail?) with the choir. I wonder what kind of charity that exhibits to our hard-working choir, which devotes much time to preparing elevating Catholic sacred music for the edification of our congregation. Sometimes we can't even follow the priest's sermon because of crying infants. Yet I travel hours to get to a Traditional Latin Mass and worship God in an atmosphere of reverent quiet and meditation. At this rate I might as well go back to the Novus Ordo service!
Our poor priest has several times announced from the pulpit that infants should be taken to the crying room, but certain parents seem bound and determined to foist their children's disciplinary problems onto the whole congregation. These parents would never get away with such uncouth and uncharitable behavior if they took their infants to a symphony concert or opera, for which people spend $100 dollars for a ticket. And yet the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass is supposed to be priceless.
Perhaps the fault here lies with the other members of the congregation. When an infant becomes disruptive to the point that the Mass is being disrupted, if the parent doesn't have the good sense God gave him to remove the infant, then the usher or some other member of the congregation should intervene.
Here a Catholic article:
http://www.traditio.com/feature/children.htm
I don't know if they are sedes but they are nevertheless right in many things.
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parentsfortruth
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I would disagree with the infant over your shoulder comment in that article. Mothers with very small babies need communion too, and I wouldn't even be able to go to Mass if I couldn't take the baby with me. I'll have a small infant at the end of July, and I'm not going to miss Holy Communion because I have a newborn.
To be fair, I have other older children, and of course, if they're misbehaving (as sometimes would occur,) I would remove them if they were causing a scene, but I wouldn't keep them there wailing and fussing. They don't misbehave anymore. My youngest is four, besides the one on the way.
I wonder if the author of that article has any children himself. I would imagine not by his overly-judgmental tone, but that's just what I got out of the article.
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| spouse of Jesus said: | A Catholic mother says:
At our church there is someone who brings her unruly infants to Mass, and one of them even tries to sing (wail?) with the choir. I wonder what kind of charity that exhibits to our hard-working choir, which devotes much time to preparing elevating Catholic sacred music for the edification of our congregation. Sometimes we can't even follow the priest's sermon because of crying infants. Yet I travel hours to get to a Traditional Latin Mass and worship God in an atmosphere of reverent quiet and meditation. At this rate I might as well go back to the Novus Ordo service!
Our poor priest has several times announced from the pulpit that infants should be taken to the crying room, but certain parents seem bound and determined to foist their children's disciplinary problems onto the whole congregation. These parents would never get away with such uncouth and uncharitable behavior if they took their infants to a symphony concert or opera, for which people spend $100 dollars for a ticket. And yet the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass is supposed to be priceless.
Perhaps the fault here lies with the other members of the congregation. When an infant becomes disruptive to the point that the Mass is being disrupted, if the parent doesn't have the good sense God gave him to remove the infant, then the usher or some other member of the congregation should intervene.
Here a Catholic article:
http://www.traditio.com/feature/children.htm
I don't know if they are sedes but they are nevertheless right in many things.
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As for the woman writing here, I empathize with her. If some parents would keep their children in church when Holy Mass was going on, and wouldn't remove them if they were wailing so loud that they were distracting others, that would ire me as well. It's already hard enough for me (probably part of my temperament, but perhaps a fault, hopefully one that I can correct, with God's help) to concentrate when I pray, and having children wailing loudly during Mass doesn't help at all. If I were her, I would go and speak to the priest, and mention it perhaps, and if that doesn't help, I would go after Mass and admonish (KINDLY) the mother of said wailing children, and approach her CHARITABLY and let her know these things.
On the other hand, if whoever is doing the admonishing cannot approach it in a CHARITABLE way, then they shouldn't do it at all, and simply PRAY for said mother to come to some kind of admonition from Our Lord. Offer up the Mass for her specifically, and bear it as a suffering that one can offer up to God, by being distracted during Mass, and for the ire of Our Lord (if any) that He experiences by distracting children during Mass.
As for the STUPID comment about "I might as well go back to the Novus Ordo," I question the motive of this woman based on that. There should be NO QUESTION as to why you're going to the traditional Mass. If you even have that question in your MIND, you shouldn't even THINK about going to Holy Communion at a traditional mass, because the Novus Ordo service is an entirely different religion. That would be like an Episcopalian coming to a Catholic Mass and saying, "I might as well go back to the Episcopalian church if I have to listen to this whining." Go be a protestant, then. Don't infect the traditional Mass with your presence if you're going to dismiss it because of a situation that's out of your control. How completely absurd. It's almost as if this woman perhaps may be purposely trying to cause dissent! If you still believe that the Novus Ordo has any validity to it, you should go back there and spare the congregation your whining.
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Matthew 5:37
But let your speech be yea, yea: no, no: and that which is over and above these, is of evil.
My avatar is Monsignor Gregory Hesse. This picture was taken in 1998. He died in 2005. RIP
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