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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Notice how most of these posts (likely from the same person) don’t actually defend Mass on Fridays or attempt to persuade anyone why Friday Mass is a good idea or important for a Catholic education.

Instead, all they do is (a) repeat how “every other school goes to mass weekly,” or (b) scream, “it’s always been like that, so if you don’t like it, leave!”

Sad. But I guess that’s the sort of critical-thinking skills you get when you spend much of k-8 going to mass and assemblies and parties rather than on academics.

Unclear why you think anyone is required to persuade you of the value of the school community coming together to for Mass and to share the gifts of grace once per week.

Once again, just more deflection and flimsy responses. No substantive argument at all.

And nobody has a problem with the community coming together for mass once a week. It’s called Sunday Mass. Sorry you wouldn’t be able to sleep in.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Notice how most of these posts (likely from the same person) don’t actually defend Mass on Fridays or attempt to persuade anyone why Friday Mass is a good idea or important for a Catholic education.

Instead, all they do is (a) repeat how “every other school goes to mass weekly,” or (b) scream, “it’s always been like that, so if you don’t like it, leave!”

Sad. But I guess that’s the sort of critical-thinking skills you get when you spend much of k-8 going to mass and assemblies and parties rather than on academics.

Unclear why you think anyone is required to persuade you of the value of the school community coming together to for Mass and to share the gifts of grace once per week.

Once again, just more deflection and flimsy responses. No substantive argument at all.

And nobody has a problem with the community coming together for mass once a week. It’s called Sunday Mass. Sorry you wouldn’t be able to sleep in.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Notice how most of these posts (likely from the same person) don’t actually defend Mass on Fridays or attempt to persuade anyone why Friday Mass is a good idea or important for a Catholic education.

Instead, all they do is (a) repeat how “every other school goes to mass weekly,” or (b) scream, “it’s always been like that, so if you don’t like it, leave!”

Sad. But I guess that’s the sort of critical-thinking skills you get when you spend much of k-8 going to mass and assemblies and parties rather than on academics.

Unclear why you think anyone is required to persuade you of the value of the school community coming together to for Mass and to share the gifts of grace once per week.

Anonymous wrote:Notice how most of these posts (likely from the same person) don’t actually defend Mass on Fridays or attempt to persuade anyone why Friday Mass is a good idea or important for a Catholic education.

Instead, all they do is (a) repeat how “every other school goes to mass weekly,” or (b) scream, “it’s always been like that, so if you don’t like it, leave!”

Sad. But I guess that’s the sort of critical-thinking skills you get when you spend much of k-8 going to mass and assemblies and parties rather than on academics.

Anonymous wrote:Notice how most of these posts (likely from the same person) don’t actually defend Mass on Fridays or attempt to persuade anyone why Friday Mass is a good idea or important for a Catholic education.

Instead, all they do is (a) repeat how “every other school goes to mass weekly,” or (b) scream, “it’s always been like that, so if you don’t like it, leave!”

Sad. But I guess that’s the sort of critical-thinking skills you get when you spend much of k-8 going to mass and assemblies and parties rather than on academics.

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Anonymous wrote:This whole conversation is silly. You can have religious education by *integrating* religion into math, reading, science, social studies, etc. Kill two birds with one stone. For example, use religious texts to teach reading. Use religious examples to teach math. Teach the wonder of God’s creation through science. And so on.

The notion that Catholic education “requires” weekly mass or repetitive sacrament prep *during the school day* is absurd, lazy, and old-fashioned.

How many kids — especially younger kids — get anything out of mass during the school day? If you want a true “Catholic education,” there are better ways to do it. Does Notre Dame or other Catholic colleges require weekly Mass during classes? Why not? Are they providing an inferior “Catholic education”?

If you call the celebration of Mass (at anytime of the week) “absurd, lazy, and old fashioned” you truly do not understand what the significance of Mass is in Catholicism.

I guess colleges like Notre Dame and most Catholic high schools are just heretics then. None requires students to attend mass on a weekday, every week, during school hours. Mass is for SUNDAYS, with family. Not at 9 am on weekdays during school.

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Anonymous wrote:If you don't want weekly mass, don't go to a parochial school. How hard is that to get?

I love the Friday mass. I get to sleep in on Sundays! Mass for the kids is already taken care of! Priceless.

And fortunately for my kids, they have a SAHP who can compensate for the lost academics at home. Sucks for those kids who don’t have that, but oh well.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you don't want weekly mass, don't go to a parochial school. How hard is that to get?

I love the Friday mass. I get to sleep in on Sundays! Mass for the kids is already taken care of! Priceless.

And fortunately for my kids, they have a SAHP who can compensate for the lost academics at home. Sucks for those kids who don’t have that, but oh well.

You sound absolutely miserable.

Me? I’m very happy. No complaints here. They can go to mass 5x a week for all I care - most school nowadays is basically a glorified daycare anyway. My kids learn the important stuff — what they need to know — at home. Parochial school works for us bc it’s safer and we like the exposure to religion/values. I don’t obsess about how the day is organized.

Go to mass all day if it makes you feel better about yourself — just have the kids ready on time for pickup, and don’t whine when they’re absent for family vacations.

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you don't want weekly mass, don't go to a parochial school. How hard is that to get?

I love the Friday mass. I get to sleep in on Sundays! Mass for the kids is already taken care of! Priceless.

And fortunately for my kids, they have a SAHP who can compensate for the lost academics at home. Sucks for those kids who don’t have that, but oh well.

You sound absolutely miserable.

Me? I’m very happy. No complaints here. They can go to mass 5x a week for all I care - most school nowadays is basically a glorified daycare anyway. My kids learn the important stuff — what they need to know — at home. Parochial school works for us bc it’s safer and we like the exposure to religion/values. I don’t obsess about how the day is organized.

Go to mass all day if it makes you feel better about yourself — just have the kids ready on time for pickup, and don’t whine when they’re absent for family vacations.

“No complaints here” after doing nothing but complaining.

“They can go to Mass five days a week for all I care”…that’s not the impression you’ve been giving.

If you are doing such an amazing job as a SAHP who is teaching your kids everything they need to know, why don’t you homeschool? Seriously. Maybe it’s because teaching and being fully on the hook for your children’s progress isn’t actually that easy. But spouting off about how bad something is and how amazing you are doesn’t take much effort.

I’m moving to the area and interested in local privates. But if they’re full of people like you, I should save my money and send kids to the neighborhood school instead.

What a tolerant, patient, kind Catholic you are. Mass 3x a week is doing wonders for you!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you don't want weekly mass, don't go to a parochial school. How hard is that to get?

I love the Friday mass. I get to sleep in on Sundays! Mass for the kids is already taken care of! Priceless.

And fortunately for my kids, they have a SAHP who can compensate for the lost academics at home. Sucks for those kids who don’t have that, but oh well.

You sound absolutely miserable.

Me? I’m very happy. No complaints here. They can go to mass 5x a week for all I care - most school nowadays is basically a glorified daycare anyway. My kids learn the important stuff — what they need to know — at home. Parochial school works for us bc it’s safer and we like the exposure to religion/values. I don’t obsess about how the day is organized.

Go to mass all day if it makes you feel better about yourself — just have the kids ready on time for pickup, and don’t whine when they’re absent for family vacations.

“No complaints here” after doing nothing but complaining.

“They can go to Mass five days a week for all I care”…that’s not the impression you’ve been giving.

If you are doing such an amazing job as a SAHP who is teaching your kids everything they need to know, why don’t you homeschool? Seriously. Maybe it’s because teaching and being fully on the hook for your children’s progress isn’t actually that easy. But spouting off about how bad something is and how amazing you are doesn’t take much effort.

I’m moving to the area and interested in local privates. But if they’re full of people like you, I should save my money and send kids to the neighborhood school instead.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you don't want weekly mass, don't go to a parochial school. How hard is that to get?

I love the Friday mass. I get to sleep in on Sundays! Mass for the kids is already taken care of! Priceless.

And fortunately for my kids, they have a SAHP who can compensate for the lost academics at home. Sucks for those kids who don’t have that, but oh well.

You sound absolutely miserable.

Me? I’m very happy. No complaints here. They can go to mass 5x a week for all I care - most school nowadays is basically a glorified daycare anyway. My kids learn the important stuff — what they need to know — at home. Parochial school works for us bc it’s safer and we like the exposure to religion/values. I don’t obsess about how the day is organized.

Go to mass all day if it makes you feel better about yourself — just have the kids ready on time for pickup, and don’t whine when they’re absent for family vacations.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you don't want weekly mass, don't go to a parochial school. How hard is that to get?

I love the Friday mass. I get to sleep in on Sundays! Mass for the kids is already taken care of! Priceless.

And fortunately for my kids, they have a SAHP who can compensate for the lost academics at home. Sucks for those kids who don’t have that, but oh well.

You sound absolutely miserable.