Akita Suggagaki
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You make it sound almost like we (especially the laity) are not worthy to pray.I'm sorry, Erose, but I must say this - painful as it is to say, of this Holy Church in our time - such conflation of "the Holy Mass" with "a prayer" is another bitter fruit of a "dumbing down" of the Faith that has come upon the Church like a giant tsunami flattening the whole City of God into a pancake. Our whole concept of prayer itself - once recognized by St. John Vianney as "prayer is nothing other than union with God" - but is trivialized today by modern clergy and prolific popular writers and speakers, beyond recognition by those saints and the holy faithful who have grasped it truly in its essence and supernatural substance.
I was pierced to the heart once to hear from a priest, from the pulpit, describe prayer as "hanging out with Jesus for a while". And who said that the Catholic Church can't be relevant?
Jesus is not "our buddy" - He is our Lord, our God, our King. The Mass is not merely "a prayer" - most certainly not the kind of prayer that too many Catholics imagine it to be.
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