"I Believe That Children Are The Future"
And other stupid lyrics

Yes, I said stupid lyrics. What else could children be... the past? But at the risk of being referred to as "sensitive", I have been thinking a lot as of late about children. Children in relation to The Church in general, and children in relation to the Traditional Latin Mass, specifically.

At the Latin Masses that I attend, it's the norm to see young families with many lil' 'uns. I also see a fairly good number of senior citizens. Those in my age group (late thirties - early fifties)... well, not too many of us.

As I call us, "The Children of Vatican II". Too young to really remember the Latin Mass, and too old to be at an impressionable age when orthodoxy was on the [recent] upswing in The Church.

But my goomba, BennyXVISurfRider, recently informed me that there are some High School kids up in the Raleigh area that frequent The Lair, and from what he was told, are fairly big fans. That got me thinking... if they hit The Lair, they're also hitting the many, many traditional, orthodox Catholic sites I have on my blogroll.

Then I ran into this ComBox posting just yesterday;

Barbara said...
I am sort of new to blogdom.....and have greatly enjoyed the Caveman as well as other orthodox writers.
But I wonder the effect of like minded bloggers simply reading the writings of like minded bloggers...how do we get this out to those who need to hear...?

That made me think of those High School kids up in Raleigh. Don't worry, Barbara... the word will get out. Youngsters nowadays are plenty smart. They don't want wishy-washy, they want what's solid. They don't want ambiguity, they want decisiveness. They don't want anarchy, they want discipline.

As Roger Daltrey once sang, The Kids Are Alright.