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Video Reflection on Dying #8--Looking Back on My Life, part 3: RAISED IN THE FAITH/ FOUNDED ON ROCK
Claude LeBlanc NOTE: I'm writing these reflections on the lessens learned during my life as I face death due to ALS at the request of my children, but I thought there might be something for others to benefit from. My hope is that you will be blessed by the blessings of my life.
VIDEO TRANSCRIPT
I was raised a practicing Catholic and it’s the one thing about my childhood I’m most grateful for. My father grew up in an entirely Catholic culture (and he has a brother who is a priest), while my mother became a Catholic as an early teen. My mother tells a story about the time when she and my father were engaged. One day, she jokingly said she wasn’t Catholic, and he wanted to call off their wedding. Luckily for me, that didn’t happen!
I was baptized just one month after my birth at St. Columbkille church in Los Angeles, and taken to Sunday Mass from a very early age. I learned my prayers and would pray before meals and at bedtime. There was never a question about whether or not I would go to Catholic school. My mother sent my father to St. Matthias School in Huntington Park every day until they took me. I became an altar server for the Latin Mass. I was allowed to choose between three Salesian high schools; Salesian in East LA, St. John Bosco in Bellflower, or Don Bosco Technical Institute in Rosemead. I chose the latter and I’ll share my reasons and the lessons learned there in a future reflection.
It’s common these days for parents to say, “I’ll let my children decide what they believe.” After teaching high school for over 40 years, and seeing several studies, I know this doesn’t work; many children raised this way will never choose to believe in God, let alone practice a Faith. I don’t understand why parents do this. If the purpose of life is being united with God forever in Heaven, why leave this most important thing to chance? Do these same parents let their children decide whether or not to go to school, or do anything else they want?
So, why am I most grateful for being raised Catholic? I do have issues with the Church, which I’ll get to later. But, it has literally been the foundation of my life, and it is solid. Nearly everything I have chosen--my career, wife, how to raise our family, and where to volunteer—has been built on and centered around this Rock as you will see.
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