Dear Confused:

You will not get any sympathy from me. I will be scolding you because that is what you deserve and need.

Your occasional attendance at Mass is grave sin unless you have "legitimate" reasons to miss Mass. If you have to work, that is a legitimate reason if and only if you cannot attend Mass on Saturday Evening or any Sunday morning Masses because of work. Everyday tasks and family (unless a family member is sick or something like that) are not legitimate excuses to miss Mass.

To not go to Mass when you are perfectly able to do so is spitting on God. God is NOT grateful that you deign to appear in at His supper only once-in-awhile. He is never pleased with deliberate sin. To stop attending Mass all-together because you had your feelings hurt is profoundly immature and prideful. Get over yourself. Do you love God or not? Apparently not. I can say that because Jesus said that "if you love me, you will obey my commandments" (John 14:15). You fail to keep the commandments of Jesus in not having your child baptised when you should have, with your failure to be diligent to attend Mass, and now with yiour not going Mass at all because your poor little feelings were hurt. Grow up!

As for you child, of course you child suffers from your sin. We all suffer from other people's sin. You again spit on God by not seeking baptism for your child when he was an infant (in the first eight days usually). It is not the Church's fault or God's fault that you failed in your parental responsibilities.

Now that you failed as a parent to have your child baptized as an infant, your child will have to wait until the age of reason and usually undergo instructions before baptism. There is nothing unusual about this, nothing wrong with it, and your priest's decision on this is fully done with God's approval. You have only yourself to blame.

God Bless,
Bro. Ignatius Mary