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So what is my battle going to be about? Reconciliation! For you none Catholics out there that is confession! Most Catholic's first confession happens in the 3rd grade and according to most Priests it comes after the child has had their First Communion. I made a death bed promise to my Aunt Kathy to have my children baptised in the Catholic Faith. My kids were presented to my Gods for Protection and Blessings in the hospital and a year later they were baptised in my mother's religion. My mom and at times my dad (he thinks I am going on a 10 plus year fade with my spirituality at times) are pretty open about my spirituality because of the area we all were raised in. Plus my mom loves to debate the priests and nuns about the bible and how hypicritical it is! But she did ask one thing of me and I will do it for her. Please get the kids their first communion, this way if they choose to make Catholism their chosen faith when they get older it will be easier on them to get confirmation. I figured what the hell! It doesn't hurt them to learn about other religions. And being taught Catholism and going through two of their rituals is the same as going through the Lutharn Mo. Sect and American Lutheran rituals!
They are starting their First Communion Classes this Wensday evening. DeLaney isn't to happy about having to share her moment of First Communion with Coltin (she is a year behind in classes due to TX being odd and old fashion bring back the Dark Age Rituals of first communion and confirmation!) but she is happy about finally wearing my first communion dress! But I refuse! REFUSE to let my children do confession.
This was my biggest battle with my mother when I was my daughter's age, it was our biggest battle every year till the day I was confirmed! I see NO NEED to confess anything to a Priest when God is suppose to be ALL KNOWING, sees everything we do, knows why we do what we do, and forgives us as long as we ASK! The Priest is NOT a Christian's judge and jury and has no right to say some one is absolved of sin. The deal with my mother was I get confirmed to make her happy and I was confirmed in the 5th grade which is young by Normal Catholic standards (not texan or the dark age standards a lot of catholic churchs are going back to) and after that I could study and practice any religion or spirituality I wanted. I studied various religoins from that age up till I was out of my parents house and choose my the Celtic Side when I was about 18 years old. With my spirituality the Gods are knowing of what you do and why. And they judge you not on HUMAN behavor but as to why you did something! There are a lot of Grey areas that can go either way in a Moral and Ethical living person and in fact the Gods don't really judge you but treat you as a friend, lover, son, daughter, and special person and if you fucker up that is on you and not the GODS! They help when you need help and you have helped yourself!
Anyway I will NOT allow my children to confess to anything! They are children and have commited NO SIN besides being children! And our Gods including the Christian God knows that when they are disrespectful to their parents that it isn't a SIN but HUMAN Behavor and children sometimes do get mouthy but that doesn't mean if they are brought up with standards, morals, and ethics that they direspect their parents on a whole!
So this will be very interesting!
