As I went in the Church at Weybridge for Mass, this roller scooter perfectly parked caught my eye. This sort of scooter is quite famous with children around here. I see children taking it up to school and then parents gettting in back with them when they come to collect them at the end of school. Children just love pushing, hopping on it and riding it!
This particular one caught my attention because it was neatly parked in the place where cycles are normally parked. I'm sure the one who brought in the scooter was just a little kid. But she (given that it is painted) had the perfect discipline to park it in place rather than leave it about in some corner. That's growing in discipline.
However once inside the Church I was wondering, if children could be taught such discipline and they retain that even when the grow up, how come frequenting the Church and participating in the sacramental and liturgical life of the Church is not something children carry on once they touch their teens? Granted that parents and elders here value greatly the opinion and freedom of their children right from when they are little, how come civic discipline is retained but not religious fervour?
This particular one caught my attention because it was neatly parked in the place where cycles are normally parked. I'm sure the one who brought in the scooter was just a little kid. But she (given that it is painted) had the perfect discipline to park it in place rather than leave it about in some corner. That's growing in discipline.
However once inside the Church I was wondering, if children could be taught such discipline and they retain that even when the grow up, how come frequenting the Church and participating in the sacramental and liturgical life of the Church is not something children carry on once they touch their teens? Granted that parents and elders here value greatly the opinion and freedom of their children right from when they are little, how come civic discipline is retained but not religious fervour?
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