Indian Catholic families follow an 11th commandment framed by themselves

by Joseph Saraceno

INDIA_Faithful of India – Sorry State of Affair  (The world, for that matter)

Louis Rajan, a friend from India.
Tragic Questions that faithful in India need to think over:

What does a fisherman do when he’s been fishing on the banks of a river and has not caught even one fish for 30 years?

Ans: He gets fed up, looses all his hope and moves to the next bank. This is the condition of the faithful and the priests in India. For the past 30 years, SSPX priests here, have toiled hard, day and night to establish Traditional Mass centres in India. They travel even in the scorching heat of the sun and in the rains to celebrate Mass every Sunday in each Mass centre. We complain and blame the priests, say they are lazy, if there is no Mass for one Sunday. We Indians are so ungrateful to all their hard work and are obliged to answer to God for our sarcasm.

The main reason why there is a chance for the priests to have the same condition as that of the fisherman:

Indian Catholic families follow an 11th commandment framed by themselves that, “No more than 2 children should be in a family and both the children will be married for sure.”

This practise which is against our Catholic faith is a catastrophe. God has created man and wife and has established the sacrament of marriage, so that His servants (the married couple) magnifies His works of creation by bringing forth many children into this world and glorifying Him. If there are only 2 children in the family, the kids don’t get a chance to live a life of simplicity, poverty, chastity and obedience which are the major Catholic practises which every Catholic should follow. With just 2 children, Indian parents are so worried about their comforts, their best education, the dowries they have to be concerned about if its a girl, and what not. All these are acts of modernism and is against the Catholic faith. We are not fit to be called “Catholics” if we do not practise the Catholic faith. The primary responsibility of a parent is to kindle the child, in its mind, the love of God for mankind and motivating it to draw him/herself closer to God, which can be accomplished to the maximum in a Religious Vocation. Only when the child comes to know about the danger of SIN, if he/she is in this world, and where it can lead to, the child will understand completely on the importance of a religious vocation. Not a single traditional catholic parent in these 30 years has ever motivated her child to take up the religious vocation. This situation is pathetic where within a few more years, all are married and no one exists to conduct the matrimonial ceremony for their children. Every parent is obliged to instil in the child the importance of religious vocation which will bring in a great blessing to the family. It is said, that one in three of each family has a religious vocation as it is God’s gift. Right from small, the child should be taught and prompted to have the desire to enter into a seminary/convent; and this is the sole duty of the parent. Only when the child attains an age of reasoning, when the situation arises that, if the child does not want to become a religious, then marriage could be the second option. In India, only the second option-marriage is chosen for all the children in the family by the parents, which is absolutely wrong! Parents, Keep asking your kids the following questions until they decide about their vocation. Motivate them for a religious vocation and don’t think it a shame; then it’ll be a shame on you during the Last Judgement for holding yourself responsible for the loss of the soul of your child.

The basic questions to be asked to know if you have a religious vocation:
1.      Do you want to stay in this world and sin more and more?
2.      Do you want to go to Heaven? (which is very difficult if you are attached to this world)
3.      Do you want to be good?
4.      Do you want to love God just as He loves you by giving His LIFE for you?
5.      Do you want to serve God and dedicate your life for Him because He gave His life for you?
Religious vocation is not about hearing an inner voice and seeking after that inner voice. If you answer these questions, then you do have a vocation! Although the answers for these can be fulfilled by the sacrament of marriage, in this modernized world, it is very complicated to implement the same.
“NEVER BE ASHAMED OF SENDING YOUR CHILD TO A SEMINARY/CONVENT. MAKE SURE THAT RELIGIOUS VOCATION IS MORE IMPORTANT AND HAS TO BE GIVEN FIRST PREFERENCE COMPARED TO MATRIMONY.”
 
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