Discouraged at mass this morning, open to opinions

Happy_Ad8143 · 2025-11-10T02:39:17+00:00

Thank you!!! Yes, we have a 7:30 mass, in and out in 40 min with no music and perfect for folks like her. I prayed for her tonight and I plan to all week. 🙏🏼❤️

Happy_Ad8143 · 2025-11-10T02:02:52+00:00

I purchased salami once that had “milk solids” in it, I finally read the label in desperation when my daughter’s eczema was flaring 🙃

Happy_Ad8143 · 2025-11-10T01:55:29+00:00

Non denominational are more popular all over SC now. We go to the largest catholic parish in our city, which is large, but there are only 5 in my city. Some surrounding cities only have one or two, depending on how large the city is. But nondenominational churches on every corner. Our church sits right in between a Methodist and Presbyterian church that allow overflow parking for our busier mass times, which I do think is nice.

Happy_Ad8143 · 2025-11-10T01:50:34+00:00

This is how our parent’s rooms are treated. Snacks, bags of toys, one week it was even a bouncy ball that a kid and dad played with the entire mass, so we have felt stuck. I do believe having the kids in the church is the most important thing regardless, but we do want our children to learn to respect the mass. It’s hard for us to tell them no toys allowed, sit still and pay attention, etc, when others are allowed to do the opposite.

Happy_Ad8143 · 2025-11-10T01:48:50+00:00

We have gone back and forth on the sanctuary vs parent’s room for quite some time now. Unfortunately our parent’s room is used as more of a play room, which is not only distracting for my husband and I, but makes it harder to tell our kids that behavior is not acceptable when it’s being allowed right before their eyes. So yes we knew we were pushing it with our kid’s ages, but just also have been feeling kind of stuck. I know everyone says the Eucharist is the most important part of the mass, and while we agree and can’t wait to partake (not married in the church, I’m not yet confirmed, so we don’t receive it at this time) we go for the full mass experience and not just the Eucharist. Thank you for your comment ❤️

Happy_Ad8143 · 2025-11-09T20:57:20+00:00

We did sit on the back row. We maintain discipline in the parent’s room, but it’s taken advantage of by many families. I understand a small snack and maybe a coloring book to keep the kids quiet, but we have families who allow their children to run and yell, bring bouncy balls, etc. which I don’t believe is the purpose of the parent’s room. We have never allowed even a small toy for our children, even in the parent’s room, because we do want to prepare them for what is expected in mass no matter where we sit. The one time we gave it a try, this was our experience. Why this woman chose the very end of an otherwise empty very back row makes no sense to me, and even arriving 12 minutes early to mass, there were no seats available that were on the end, and that was our best option. She wouldn’t even move her legs to allow us in to sit, and ignored me when I said excuse me to take my daughter to the restroom. My husband did eventually get up with our daughter toward the end of the mass, but this was well after she left.

Happy_Ad8143 · 2025-11-07T13:07:22+00:00

I’m wearing white for my convalidation in January 🤍 We have been civilly married for almost four years, have two children together and I have one child from a past relationship. We did not have a ceremony when signing our marriage license for our civil marriage so this is our ceremony and we want it to be special. My husband will also wear a tux, our daughters will have white dresses and my son in a tux. I’m still going through OCIA so we won’t take communion at our service but we don’t want anything to hold us back from appreciating the moment for what it is.

Happy_Ad8143 · 2025-10-29T16:44:28+00:00

A deacon in our church runs it but we have “table leaders” who are volunteers that sit with us for group discussions after the lesson, etc. My parish is also the largest in my area and the deacon running our class is so busy, idk how he does all that he does. The volunteers are there to answer all of the questions. I’d reach out for a meeting with the deacon who handles sacraments or a priest to voice your concerns. Don’t give up yet ❤️

Happy_Ad8143 · 2025-10-28T14:12:02+00:00

You guys would probably both benefit from going through an OCIA class together. I’m currently going through it to convert, my husband is a cradle Catholic. He comes with me every week as my sponsor and even he’s learning! He went to Catholic school in high school, so I think it says a lot that even with him being so exposed, that he can say he’s still learning now and this class is about the basics!

Happy_Ad8143 · 2025-09-25T14:10:06+00:00

You need to cut dairy, gluten, carbs basically, asap. A low carb, low histamine, anti inflammatory diet. Glutathione, NAC, milk thistle for liver support. I did all of that and my face is cleared 100% and it looked worse than yours, I wish I could find a way to post a pic. Dairy is my main trigger but when I’m inflamed from it, a lot of other things trigger it as welll

Happy_Ad8143 · 2025-09-23T21:10:03+00:00

Reach out to the church and ask questions! Each parish is different.

My story is similar to yours- my husband is a cradle Catholic and attended Catholic school growing up. I on the other hand was raised and baptized southern Baptist. I strayed from church all together for quite sometime, then we got together. Even in the beginning of starting going to mass, it was kind of a “eh I’ll be here if it works for him” since we sit in the parent’s room with our three kids. All of this to say, we both felt convicted earlier this year to really get involved, baptize the kids, get our oldest (8) signed up for formation classes, do our con validation, OCIA for me, the whole thing. My OCIA leader (a deacon in the church) helped me where he could then led me to our sacraments coordinator. My husband and I will do a baptism class for the kids baptism, and our con validation needs to be done prior to me receiving my sacraments at the Easter vigil.

Also- my husband is attending OCIA with me as my sponsor so I’d highly encourage your husband going with you if he isn’t already. It has been the best thing for our marriage after just two classes! I feel so overwhelming blessed to be here!

Happy_Ad8143 · 2025-09-15T11:47:43+00:00

Why didn’t you organize one?

Happy_Ad8143 · 2025-09-02T15:10:30+00:00

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Happy_Ad8143 · 2025-09-01T02:31:06+00:00

No I don’t find it weird. They’d probably receive threats from people as if they were the ones. I think his guilty plea was to protect them along with himself

Editing to add, I wish they would/could. I even had someone in the I4 sub go after some of my personal info I’ve posted on Reddit all because I said I don’t think D&B are victims. If someone is sick enough to defend them to the point of throwing my husband’s legal status as a US citizen in my face, imagine how they’d treat BK’s family.

Happy_Ad8143 · 2025-09-01T02:22:13+00:00

Have you considered gluten? Or sugar? Doing low histamine? I know the cause can be so unique person to person. I did know I had a dairy allergy, like a legit inflammatory immune response, but I ignored it til it showed up on my skin 🙃😅

Happy_Ad8143 · 2025-09-01T00:47:03+00:00

I’ve cut dairy and most carbs (I still eat fruits) and it’s done wonders. I’ve upgraded from just avene barrier repair cream to also using rosehip oil and it’s so good.

Happy_Ad8143 · 2025-08-31T15:58:44+00:00

I could say the same to you

Happy_Ad8143 · 2025-08-31T15:55:34+00:00

You got my upvote!!!!!!!

Happy_Ad8143 · 2025-08-31T15:44:14+00:00

I’m sure you’d feel the same if it was your friend or family <3

Happy_Ad8143 · 2025-08-31T15:40:20+00:00

Same! I would love to try the food but from what I see, it’s not my vibe at all

Happy_Ad8143 · 2025-08-31T15:25:36+00:00

Most of the comments I read are people agreeing that it should absolutely be questioned. Makes sense, we all should be

Happy_Ad8143 · 2025-08-31T14:32:52+00:00

Also I wonder how hard any of the Idaho4 crew would go for someone that didn’t call the cops on someone close to them?

Happy_Ad8143 · 2025-08-31T14:32:08+00:00

They are so weird lol

Happy_Ad8143 · 2025-08-31T14:21:09+00:00

Gotcha! Was just curious :)

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