A Good Article About Children and the Traditional Latin Mass
Thank you again Jeff Culbreath (just love El Camino Real) for the link.
One of the reasons why we switched from the Novus Ordo to the TLM had to do with our children's religious formation. I mean on a personal note, I was getting flustered and upset every time I went to Mass. The message I was sending to my children was that Church was a place that Mommy got angry. It occurred to me though, besides being angry, how many other messages was I sending my children?
I remember as a child, my father getting us ready to go to Mass and telling me not to eat anything beforehand. I remember thinking "silly Dad, no one does that anymore", because quite frankly at the Catholic school and parish we were attending, no one did. Unfortunately, eating before Mass would not be the first tradition I would reject because "no one does that anymore." I am blessed to have found my way back.
I think it is important to submerse children with as much fullness of the Faith as can be mustered. Children learn from acts, not only words. They are not stupid.
In the end, they may reject the faith. We cannot make decisions for them when they get older. What we can do is give them the best possible foundation to start from.
