Every week I take my daughter to church by myself. Its not because I am a single. I am actually married and my wife is wonderful, but she refuses to go to church with us.
It would be very easy to leave my daughter at home while I go to church. I won’t lie, there have been many Sunday mornings when my two year old daughter was anything but pleasant to deal (I’m sure you can all relate) with alone and it has been very tempting to leave her at home. I take her with me though, because its the right thing to do. But its awkward and I feel embarrassed when people ask me “Where is your wife?”. Its because they don’t know us from Adam and don’t know our family situation and I know that I would wonder the same thing.
I would love nothing better than for my wife to join as at church. The questions are a minor issue that is not important. It would be great to have someone else to help deal with a toddler. My parish seems very understanding about her crying and various noises, even though I can’t tell you how many sermons/readings/other parts of the Mass I haven’t heard over the wailing. My biggest concern, is of course my wife’s soul.
With that said, where am I going with this? First of all, I would appreciate any prayers for our family. Secondly, I am curious to hear ideas to try to explain to my wife why you should go to church. I have try to explain to her the majesty and awesomeness of the Eucharist present there. I have tried the family/communal meal analogy. Just wondering if anyone has a great way of explaining that I haven’t thought of.
Happy Father’s Day! We all have a lot to be thankful for from our respective Dads and from our Father in Heaven, but here’s a post that reminds that we have a lot to be thankful for from our children. This is a repost from my blog.
As I look back on the baptism classes I went to before my daughter’s baptism, I remember a lot of talk about the role of parents in leading children to a closer relationship with God. However, as I have found out since her birth, that is a two-way street. She’s only two so we don’t yet have in depth conversations on Theology or the nature of God, but Fatherhood has opened my eyes and made me understand much of Christ’s and the Church’s teachings and explanations more vivid to me.
Writing this the first thing that comes to mind is the repeated references to the First Person of the Trinity as Father. I understand in a way that was not clear before how much more than I do, God the Father knows what’s best for me. Any parents out there know immediately what I am talking about. I know its best for my daughter to go eat fruits and veggies instead of cookies, but she doesn’t see it that way. For that matter, I am realizing through her how selfish I am when it comes to what I think is best vs. what the Father tells me is best. She is a wonderful little girl, but after all she is 2 and still doesn’t think about much outside of herself.
As a Dad, I can understand now much better the level of love that the
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SearchKindly.org is a search engine that uses ad revenue to raise money for charity(100% goes to charity). They raise money for a new charity every month. This month is a charity near and dear to us dads, a pediatric hospital called Ranken Jordan. So I encourage you to visit, in order to raise money for the hospital this month.
Then, since you’re there scroll down (or go here) and vote in the poll for Luke Society so that next month (if we get enough votes) the ad revenues will go to them. The Luke Society is a Christian medical missions organization. Currently Tibet Aid is winning.
You are allowed to vote about every 8 hours.
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