Comments on: Priest in Italy holds mass @ an arcade http://arcadeheroes.com/2008/04/23/priest-in-italy-holds-mass-an-arcade/ The Saviours of Coin-Op Fri, 10 Feb 2012 07:22:41 +0000 hourly 1 By: SaraAB87 http://arcadeheroes.com/2008/04/23/priest-in-italy-holds-mass-an-arcade/#comment-1311 SaraAB87 Thu, 24 Apr 2008 23:03:13 +0000 http://arcadeheaven.wordpress.com/?p=3882#comment-1311 Perhaps if the masses were a little more engaging then people would bring their kids to church and kids would want to go to church. Here church is a place that you go on a holiday, Easter, Christmas etc and don't go all year round. Out of the people who go to mass here, how many are actually getting something out of it? I bet very few. Most people sit there like zombies in the church. Its like its a place you feel you have to go, not a place that you want to be. If adults aren't getting much out of the mass, then I can't imagine kids getting anything out of it either, especially when the material presented is way beyond the scope of most of the children in the pews. The church is dealing with adults and teens who can't shut off their cell phone for the duration of the mass and children that are being raised on the Nintendo Wii, so I think they need to find a different, more updated way of presenting the mass in order to engage the public. I have seen kids play the Nintendo DS for the duration of the mass here. For the record I am a catholic and I grew up a catholic and went to catholic school all my life. I don't think using video games to attract kids is the right way to go about this. It doesn't seem to me like there is much incentive to this, the kids already have video games in their homes, and if they don't have them in their own house they are playing at a friends house. There isn't much incentive if the church is trying to lure them in with something they already own. Perhaps if the masses were a little more engaging then people would bring their kids to church and kids would want to go to church. Here church is a place that you go on a holiday, Easter, Christmas etc and don’t go all year round. Out of the people who go to mass here, how many are actually getting something out of it? I bet very few. Most people sit there like zombies in the church. Its like its a place you feel you have to go, not a place that you want to be. If adults aren’t getting much out of the mass, then I can’t imagine kids getting anything out of it either, especially when the material presented is way beyond the scope of most of the children in the pews. The church is dealing with adults and teens who can’t shut off their cell phone for the duration of the mass and children that are being raised on the Nintendo Wii, so I think they need to find a different, more updated way of presenting the mass in order to engage the public. I have seen kids play the Nintendo DS for the duration of the mass here. For the record I am a catholic and I grew up a catholic and went to catholic school all my life.

I don’t think using video games to attract kids is the right way to go about this. It doesn’t seem to me like there is much incentive to this, the kids already have video games in their homes, and if they don’t have them in their own house they are playing at a friends house. There isn’t much incentive if the church is trying to lure them in with something they already own.

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