holy communion

[conway]

My husband is catholic but not a regular church goer, he wants my son(8)( who has been baptised)to take his holy communion.
I am C of E but not very religious and we rarely go to church, only Easter, Christmas or if my mother in law is over.
I feel my husband is only doing this to please his mum. It is also very time consuming for my son who will have to miss his sports on saturday's which he loves.
I don't feel this is right for us yet but cannot get my husband to agree with me.
Any thoughts

What reasons does DH give? And does DS have any opinion on the matter? (My dd (5) seems to have opinions on everything at the moment!)

and what does the priest think ?

Haven't discusses it with the priest yet as do not know him and my dd does not want to do it if he misses sat morning soccer.

Worth chatting to priest and seeing what your options are - perhaps he may do evening classes ! DS can't be the only kid who's busy on a Sat morning .

I think if DS would rather play soccer than attend classes then you have your answer. If he doesn't do it now he can always choose to attend classes as an adult.

Does your son go to a catholic school? I think if he doesn't and isn't too interested in the event he shouldn't be made to make it.

Does your husband realise that he will need to be involved in your ds?s preparation too? This is not something that your son will do alone and in my experience parents have to attend some classes too.

This is not a decision to be taken lightly. If you are not regular church goers and if you ds does not attend a Catholic school, my guess is that your priest would want to talk to you all to ensure that this is something that you are committed to.

You have a while to wait and think about things anyway as catechism classes will have already commenced for this year.

I think it's only a few Saturdays they have to do. I think they send the school forms out at the beginning of year 3 so I don't know why you're only seeing to it now.

I think these days they do some of it in the parish and some in the school so it's split. I'd have thought that most of the class were doing it, so even if it means missing some Saturday morning activities at least he will be with his friends.

Just to say it may not be true that catechism classes have already commenced for this year...it depends on the parish.

Also it is not necessarily in year 3 - in our parish a lot of them are in year 2 and when my dd did it they started preparing this term (no forms in our parish - nothing so organised!).

Why not leave it for your son to decide when he's old enough to make such decisions? It's the 21st Century so the odds are he'll have time to think about it before god wants him for a sunbeam...