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Offline Last Tradhican

Re: Indifference to the Faith at SSPX Chapels
« Reply #55 on: February 08, 2021, 03:58:00 PM »
Quote from: Ladislaus on February 08, 2021, 03:45:38 PM
ironically, that time between when they first reach the age of reason until their teens are the MOST CRUCIAL and FORMATIVE of all the ages.  That's where kids are either won over to the faith or lost ...
Yes that has been exactly my observation. "to God the joy of my youth". In my long experience, if the parents do not LIVE the faith, when the children are old enough to go on their own, they will. It is too late then. This is why it is so sad when I see SSPX girls 10 years old already using makeup and wearing short dresses to mass. I know that they are lost, even at that age. even sadder is that the parents and priests see nothing wrong.
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Offline Matthew

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Re: Indifference to the Faith at SSPX Chapels
« Reply #56 on: February 10, 2021, 06:08:30 PM »
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When Frs Hewko and Voigt were here, we spoke about the same things. We do not have a girls dorm here in Syracuse. Girls of high school age may come here and board with a few select families. Each of these families provide the girls with a very modest and morally traditional home life. There is no fraternization allowed at school - the Academy is segragated by gender and the high school boys and girls do not even pass in the hallways during school. All extra-curricular activities are gender exclusive.

What we do see is a slacking and relaxing of dress, etc, when students go home for seasonal and summer breaks where they are frequently allowed access to electronics and perhaps, more permissive dress codes.  Anyone who sends their children to a school with the expectation that they will be converted from a modern lifestyle regardless of the environment and friends they return to at home are sadly mistaken.  The same is true for those who attend the various Dominican schools.  What is not practiced at home is soon lost.

I have seen alumni return to visit in clothing that would never have been acceptable at school and the priests are consistently up-front and clear and non-tolerant in those situations.  So, from first hand experience, I would take issue with the inference that an otherwise morally traditional girl would return a boy-crazy, jeans-wearing girl by virtue of the fact of where she attended high school. The answer, in this case, lies much closer to home.

V.F.

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Offline Last Tradhican

Re: Indifference to the Faith at SSPX Chapels
« Reply #57 on: February 10, 2021, 10:15:52 PM »
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When Frs Hewko and Voigt were here, we spoke about the same things. We do not have a girls dorm here in Syracuse. Girls of high school age may come here and board with a few select families. Each of these families provide the girls with a very modest and morally traditional home life. There is no fraternization allowed at school - the Academy is segragated by gender and the high school boys and girls do not even pass in the hallways during school. All extra-curricular activities are gender exclusive.

What we do see is a slacking and relaxing of dress, etc, when students go home for seasonal and summer breaks where they are frequently allowed access to electronics and perhaps, more permissive dress codes.  Anyone who sends their children to a school with the expectation that they will be converted from a modern lifestyle regardless of the environment and friends they return to at home are sadly mistaken.  The same is true for those who attend the various Dominican schools.  What is not practiced at home is soon lost.

I have seen alumni return to visit in clothing that would never have been acceptable at school and the priests are consistently up-front and clear and non-tolerant in those situations.  So, from first hand experience, I would take issue with the inference that an otherwise morally traditional girl would return a boy-crazy, jeans-wearing girl by virtue of the fact of where she attended high school. The answer, in this case, lies much closer to home.V.F.
It is good that they see the problem of immodest dress and behavior and they talk about it. That is not the case with the priests or the parents in my chapel (and according to Cathinfo's Mr. G, not the case in St. Mary's), where not a word has been spoken on the subject in 10+ years of decline.
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Offline Aleah

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Re: Indifference to the Faith at SSPX Chapels
« Reply #58 on: February 11, 2021, 05:28:18 AM »
Quote from: Last Tradhican on February 10, 2021, 10:15:52 PM
It is good that they see the problem of immodest dress and behavior and they talk about it. That is not the case with the priests or the parents in my chapel (and according to Cathinfo's Mr. G, not the case in St. Mary's), where not a word has been spoken on the subject in 10+ years of decline.
The chapel I attend- it has not been discussed for many years. We do have a sign posted but not a word, otherwise. I wish something would be said.
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Offline Ladislaus

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Re: Indifference to the Faith at SSPX Chapels
« Reply #59 on: February 11, 2021, 05:32:23 AM »
I know an Independent priest who would mention it from the pulpit.  After that, things improved ... for a short time.   Then, within a few weeks, things slid back.  So he'd mention it again.  At some point, he partly just gave up.
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