Not Signing son up for CCD
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| Mon, 08-15-2005 - 4:01pm |
I don't know where else to ask for help, but here seemed as good as any. I am a non practicing Catholic, dh is not baptized and Tommy, our 5 year old son, is baptized Catholic. Now, I have a check in my wallet for $140 for CCD or Catholic religious school. Yesterday, ds said, I don't think there is a God, I don't feel him. A very interesting thing to say, as I have felt the same way most of my life. Grandma went into her shpeal about God and Jesus and stuff, and I was getting angry because you can't make him feel something he doesn't feel.
Now I think I have come to the decision of not enrolling him in CCD and facing what I have always felt. I feel a presence in my life, I know and have experienced karma, but I know pushing him into CCD will just bore him to death with a lot of stories I just don't believe in. So the question is... how do I explain to a 5 year old about spirutiallity and love with out scaring him about death? I belive in life after, reincarnation and maybe even a happy place to go, but I don't think going to church is going to get him there faster. Also, what do I do with Grandma, who is a devout Catholic? She is going to have a stroke. Thank you for listening.
Kristin

Did Grandma give you the check for $140?
Kristin
parents are doing their best but parents have to let go
of their kids and let them make their own decisions.
There are wonderful books at unity church for children,
haven't been for a while and don't write the names
down. God is love, God is forgiveness, God is an energy,
the highest energy form, we see God in a flower, in a friend
everywhere and in ourselves. be true to you. Love, Leila
Perhaps if I let you know this. I was called out of the "church". And feel the Lord called me out into a spiritual life. Not saying better than the others but thankful not being one of them anymore. You are honoring the Creator and creation having a child with a life longing to live and in bringing up this child the best you know how does honor the Creator. ///trust that this doesnot ofend you, or others// MAN HAS WITH WITHIN HIMSELF THE POTENTIALITIES OF THE FATHER-MOTHER PRINCIPLE OF BEING, AND HAS WITHIN HIS GRASP THE KEY TO IMMORTALITY, BUT IT INVOLVES THE GREATEST SACRIFICE HE CAN EVRY BE CALLED UPON TO MAKE, YET LIFE PROVES THAT ALL SACRIFICE IS BUT THE LETTING GO OF THE LESSER IN ORDER TO RECEIVE THE GREATER GOOD. JESUS CHRIST SPECIFICALLY SHOWS BY HIS TEACHING ,AS RECORDED IN MATT. 10;34-39, THAT THE HIGHEST CALLING IN LIFE INVOLVES THE OVERCOMING OF ONE'S PERSONAL LOVES. WITH MAN EXPRESSES THE SENTIMENT OF THE MASTER IN HIS WORDS 'NOT THAT MINE ENEMY EVER INVADES ME, NO HARM FROM HIM DO I FEAR. BUT THE LOVER I RECKLESSLY LOVE, LO, HOW THEY MASTER ME; HOW I GRAVEL IN THE DUST BEFORE THEM.' FEW PEOPLE HAVE FOUND THE LOVE THAT SATISFIES BECAUSE THEY HAVE SOUGHT IN THE PERSONAL FOR IT. DIVINE LOVE, THE SATISFYING LOVE, IS FOUND THROUGHT DEVELOPING THE SPIRITUAL NATURE OF MAN SPIRITUALITY ASCENDS IN CONSCIOUSNESS ONLY AS CARNALITY DISAPPEARS submited by imperfect ira
I was forced to CCD as a child by two Catholic parents. I never learned anything and do not condemn my parents for sending me. I feel they felt since they didn't know how to talk to me about God, then maybe the Catholic church could help me. Well wrong.
I agree with binkerbee, if you teach your DS in your own way to understand Him, that would be much better teachings than what comes from CCD, something he may get bored with too.
I remember my days in CCD. I never
Hi Kristin, I am in your shoes. I have a daughter who is 12 and baptized Catholic, but I never sent her to CCD because of the teachings there also.
I can only say to pray together, he's so young yet that he probably doesn't have many questions at this time, but when he does, answer them to the best of your ability going with your truth inside of you. He will learn by example.
All feelings are the language of the soul. So by saying he doesn't feel God is saying he doesn't feel anything, and we know that isn't true. Teach him that nature is God. A walk through the trees, a pond, a bird, etc., IS God. Life is God. Tell him when he gets that feeling of beauty inside his little body of peace and wonder that that is God. Tell him anytime he feels love for you, his momma, that that feeling and love is God.
As for for Gran, well, just tell her it's taken care of. She needs not to fear.
Charliesap
One point to remember is that if he wants to be married in a Catholic church, he'll need to be confirmed. You can do that without going to CCD, but he'll have to take a class later. It's no big deal. 5 or 6 weeks is a lot better later in life when he has formed his own opinions and beliefs and not those of the church who feel they have the need to control the minds of others. Not that ALL of the teachings are 'wrong', but how would we ever filter them out, the ones we know not to be true, unless we were there every second with them (our children).
Charliesap
Yes like Charliesap just said, if he ever decides to marry and want to marry in the Catholic church, he will need to be confirmed in the Catholic church. But agian, a 5 or 6 weeks class at a point in his life where he will understand it better and already have beliefs of his own, is much better than cramming him into a CCD class, where at this age, he would only be so bored with.
Good luck with this nad God Bless you and your family!!