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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP,  join a Catholic parish.  Do whatever they require you to do as Baptism-prep (wait a certain amount of time?  attend the classes?  etc.)  Have your child baptized.  From here on out, try to go to some Masses occasionally, as often as you can.  For example, can you and your DH split up and go to separate Masses?  That is what DH and I sometimes do.  He'll stay home with the kids while I go, and vice versa.  Or, here's another option:  when we do go as a family, he sits up front with the 7yo so she can have a good view and follow along with what's happening (helps her to stay on task) and I sit in the crying room with 2yo (who def. still needs to be in the crying room).  Do we go every week?  No, we do not.  So I do understand where you are coming from.  But maybe take this as a gentle wake-up call that you cad do a BIT more, so it's not like you are just asking the parish, "Hey, can you do something for us, but I won't make the effort to do anything in return?"  :)  Best of luck to you.  I'll say a prayer for you guys!  :)[/quote]

PS Even if you cannot attend regularly, do give regularly.  Our parish lets us do it on-line so I've set it up that there is an automatic withdrawal each month.  Done.  I don't even have to think about it ever again.[/quote]

so the church gets what's most important to them -- your money -- without any benefit to your immortal soul.[/quote]

Not sure if what you are criticizing here is the Church, or me?  But yes, we did so for a number of reasons.  1)  It was important to us to support the parish b/c they do a lot of good, even if we ourselves were too lame to make it there each and every single week.  We make it about 50% of the time, I'd say.  2)   Because we we know it would be rather selfish and uncouth of us to expect THEM to deliver sacramental support when WE need it (baptisms, First Communion, etc.) if we do not give BACK to them in some way.  And 3)  b/c we wanted our daughters to go to their school once she got to be kindergarten age, so, again, we wanted to have established a regular pattern of giving to and supporting the parish.  Our 7yo daughter just completed 1st grade there and our 2yo will apply for kindergarten when she gets to be the right age.  As 2yo gets older and our life has settled more into a routine, and b/c 7yo will be preparing for her First Penance and First Communion this year and we want to support that and show how important we think it is, DH and I know that we need to improve our attendance.  [/quote]

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