“Let us sing a new song ...

not with our lips but with our lives…”
-St. Augustine

Here are just some of my thoughts on Mass, which I was just discussing with my boyfriend at dinner tonight. I do not believe that going to Mass because the Church says you have to is necessarily a good thing. How is that choosing to love God, and be with Him, if the only reason you go to Mass is because you're told to? For a God who made us with free will and minds of our own, it just doesn't make sense to me. Perhaps it's because I grew up as a Protestant, where people went to church every Sunday because they loved God and they chose to spend time with Him-- not because they're afraid of breaking the "rules". Because that just leads to--and there are exceptions, I am aware-- a Church full of people who are so intent on following the rules and the letter of the law that they miss the spirit of it. And that just leaves me with a bad taste in my mouth.





“Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.”
-G. K. Chesterton