The Lone Star Catholic (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 46, No. 50, Ed. 1 Sunday, April 13, 1958 Page: 4 of 24
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It is difficult for us to get to weekday Mass. But if
we can do it in Lent is it not a question of education to
draw us to Mass at other times? Is sorrow for sin more
real to us than forgiveness of sin? Are we more aware of
the human plight than of God’s solution for it? Are we
more interested in purging out the old leaven than in be-
coming new creations?
Instead of concentrating on the weekday Masses of
Lent, would a more balanced spiritual experience be gained
if people came less then (if necessary) and were able to
come during Easter Week, or once a week throughout the
year?
The empty church on Easter Monday seems symbolic
of an arduous journey made to a destination which was
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4 OUR SUNDAY VISITOR
T HIS is the day which the Lord hath made: let
us be glad and rejoice therein.”
“Let those now speak who have been redeemed by
our Lord.”
On Easter Monday I entered the church for Mass. The
lilies were on the altar, the Paschal candle was there, the
priest was vested in white. But the church was empty. For
six weeks it has been well-filled at Mass: men, women,
and children, busy mothers had come; business men, law-
yers, doctors had been there; young married couples, stu-
dents.
Now that the Gloria was again in the liturgy, and the
Alleluias of Easter Week, there were only four women
present — four who came every day in the year.
Now that we have been brought “into a land flowing
with milk and honey” where are the rejoicers? Now that
our risen Lord has “overcome death and opened unto us
the gate of everlasting life,” where are those who need
“continued help” — “that the things begun in the Paschal
mysteries may avail us for a healing remedy unto life
everlasting?”
Since weekday Masses are admittedly sparsely attend-
ed except during Lent, can it be that the education of the
laity has reached us at the level of sorrow for sin, but not
at that of accepting with joy the gift of redemption7 For
six weeks we will make a decided effort to atone for sin
and to meditate on the suffering of Christ. Then not even
for one week following Easter, not even for one day, does
there seem to be any idea of giving thanks and accepting
the gift of life eternal.
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elude harmful choices — such as color
of shirt or dress, arrangement of
room, selection of hobby, or choice
of menu on occasion — a child’s pow-
er to make decisions can be strength-
ened. The net result may well be
obedience that is more willing and
certainly more intelligent. *
With adolescence, the importance
of these choices should be stepped
up, just as the amount of spending
money and the liberty to spend it
are increased. A teenager, for all his
seeming frivolity, can well share in
the responsibility of keeping the
home functioning smoothly. While his
body is developing and his mind ex-
panding, the teenager retains many
of childhood’s characteristic traits.
One day he may show the wisdom of
maturity and the next day be caught
in some childish prank. This incon-
gruity — part adult, part child — is
the nature of an adolescent. He will
grow out of it in time, provided his
parents or other adults do not con-
trive to keep him an adolescent all
his life.
Thus, every independent action
is not a reason for worry. It may be
just a general tugging at the moor-
ings, a part of the battle of the gen-
erations. What counts is that this in-
dependence is asserted in the right
direction. Ability to think for one-
self, capacity to make decisions on
one’s own, and readiness to steer
one’s course through life, relying on
God’s grace and one’s own natural
qualities, are most desirable personal
traits. To suppress initiative for the
sake of subservience is to run the
risk of keeping the child still a child
even though he has reached the stage
where he will have to “put away the
things of a child.”
D OMINATING parents who
plan their children’s lives, protect
them from everything hurtful, let
them take no risks, fight their battles
for them, or insist upon a continuing
dependence, do their sons and daugh-
ters incalculable harm. Some chil-
dren, as a consequence, develop un-
derhanded, sneaky character traits
and contrive, somehow, to beat or
cheat the very people whose over-
fondness prevented them from be-
coming responsible adults. Others
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pendence. When disagreements with
husand arise, the excessively submis-
sive girl finds release and comfort in
running home to mother. The over-
protected ‘boy substitutes wife for
mother and later becomes jealous of
his own children because he is sup-
planted from his position as his wife’s
favorite child.
Some over-dominated and over-
protected teenagers “break loose”
whenever temporarily removed from
parental influence. At school they
may bully their companions in mean,
little ways; often they are surpris-
ingly impertinent in insisting - upon
their “rights,” in marked contrast to
mature boys and girls, who tend,
rather, to appreciate their privileges.
The high school teacher needs
much compassion and infinite pati-
ence with the shy girl unable even
to deliver a message within the school
without taking a companion along;
with those having no opinions on any-
thing; or with those who speedily
back down from an avowed position
as soon as opposition comes. At best,
the over-dominated boy or girl un-
fortunately carries an immature ap-
proach to the problems of life into
adulthood. “Life was made for fun,”
“God doesn’t expect hard things,” and
“Get by with what you can,” are ex-
amples of this type of thinking which
high school teachers confront every
day.
Painful as it may appear to par-
ental love, it is necessary that young
people pay the price of their own
mistakes. When a boy or girl wastes
his talent and time in school in spite
of all efforts by his teacher to con-
vert him to other ways, he must
“fail” for his own good. When he is
mean or unjust or selfish, he must not
be protected from society’s penalty:
he must be permitted to feel the
pangs of consequent loneliness and
frustration. Only thus can he take his
own measure and through self-know-
ledge rise to a better self.
Every privilege or right has a
corresponding duty or responsibility.
Usually it is the privileges of adult-
hood that teenagers are so eager to
claim, but not the responsibilities. If
they were gradually accustomed to
feeling the responsibility of maturity
and its burden, they would not be
so quick to claim its privileges.
Growth in accepting responsibility
and sharing consequent joys should
keep pace together.
Blessed are the parents who train
their children to a gradual growth in
self-assertion, thus leading them to
the liberty of the children of God,
which is directed by right reason and
dependent on God and the powers He
has bestowed. During adolescence, the
sons and daughters of such parents
may seem less loving, but they will
return to lavish rich rewards upon
the wise parents whose sights were
set afar and who helped them “put on
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M Y son and daughter,”
complains Mrs. Smith, in conference
with the high school principal, “are
growing away from me.”
“What do you mean?” queries
the nun.
“When they were small chil-
dren,” the other answers, “they told
me everything. Since they’ve been in
high school, though, things are dif-
ferent.”
“You mean they aren’t as good
as they used to be?” asks her friend.
“No-o. I don’t mean that they
get into trouble. Their report cards
from school are good — better, in
Tom’s case. But they don’t tell me
everything any more; they’re bigger
friends with their pals than with
their parents; they’re evasive when
I ask about their doings, almost as
if I weren’t supposed to be inter-
ested any more.”
Now Mrs. Smith, if she were
wise, would realize that life for her
boy and girls is taking a quite nor-
mal course. If she were wiser still,
she would lie awake nights planning
how she could best help them grow
into their independent status as
adults, instead of fretting over their
unloosening of the maternal apron
strings. She’d know that the test of
a really successful up-bringing lies,
not in how dependent the children
will remain upon their parents, but
upon how well they can thrive apart
from such dependence.
All through childhood, the goal
should be to make the youngster self-
sustaining. If his will is to grow in
'strength, he must have opportunity
to exercise it. Freedom implies liberty
to choose between several alterna-
tives. As a part of will training, the
child should be encouraged, even re-
quired, early in life, to make his own
decisions in minor matters.
If parents determine how a child
shall choose, instead of guiding his
choice, they are allowing him no
liberty and hence little opportunity
for will-training. Will power cannot
grow on enforced decisions. Only the
will to resistance is sometimes
strengthened under the kind of par-
ental tyranny that steps in between
the child and his heritage as an inde-
pendent human soul. Among many
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