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<\/a><\/p>\nChildren imitate what they see.\u00a0 This is an unarguable fact.\u00a0 Likewise, an apprentice or intern learns from what he or she sees.\u00a0 Regardless of how much book knowledge or preparation one has, personal experience is the most reliable manner to transmit and to retain knowledge.\u00a0 Teachers know that repetition is key for students to learn.\u00a0 Lately, I have been watching several online videos and documentaries about orangutangs.\u00a0\u00a0 The young ones learn behaviors by watching their mothers, and those either in captivity or in rescue facilities quickly pick up human behaviors through imitation.<\/p>\n
When growing up, as the weekend approached, the question always asked at home was, \u201cwhat Mass will we attend this weekend?\u201d\u00a0 As I grew older however I learned that many families did not ask that question, but rather asked, \u201cwill we attend Mass this weekend?\u201d\u00a0 I only recall one time missing Mass on Sunday, and it was due to the malfunction of the baler in the middle of baling hay at our farm, so we were unable to get back to Augusta from the farm for 6pm Sunday Mass at Saint Mary on the Hill.<\/p>\n
The transmission of our faith from generation to generation depends on imitation.\u00a0 It is the example of parents attending Mass faithfully that teaches children the importance of keeping the Sabbath Holy.\u00a0 Teaching children to pray by example plants seeds that later grow strong.\u00a0 Parents deepening their faith allows them to answer the questions raised by their children.\u00a0 It is impossible to tell a young person that church and a relationship with Jesus are important if the adult counselling it does not reflect it by his or her example.<\/p>\n
Keeping the Sabbath Holy has become more challenging today.\u00a0 In an ever more secularized world, Sunday has become one more day for work and shopping.\u00a0 There are sports, school activities, errands to run, and demands from work.\u00a0 Yet, the Word of God reminds us that \u201ca sabbath rest still remains for the people of God.\u00a0 And whoever enters into God\u2019s rest, rests from his own work as God did from his.\u00a0 Therefore, let us strive to enter into that rest\u201d (Hebrews 4: 9-11).<\/p>\n
We cannot expect to win the race without training, or get good fruit from a bad tree.\u00a0 We strive to Keep the Sabbath Holy not only to glorify God but also to be restored ourselves.\u00a0 Sunday is a good day to visit family and friends, to organize a family activity, to do a service project with family members of friends, to minimize the use of technology or social media, to break the weekly routine by heading to a park, or to catch up on those things that linger over our heads and we never have time to complete.\u00a0 Most importantly, Sunday is a day to set aside time to worship God as a family and as a community.\u00a0 It is primarily by example that these habits and attitudes are transmitted from generation to the next.\u00a0 If we do not live this out, neither will our children, or our children\u2019s children.\u00a0 Keeping the Sabbath Holy ensures fidelity to what Jesus has taught us and gives us a much needed weekly rest.<\/p>\n
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