When I go to Mass on Sunday it’s between God and me, I don’t want to have a relationship with anyone during Mass but Jesus”””
Wow! “Whenever two or more are gathered in My name.”
Why bother going? Why not just sit outside in your car and listen?
Why would you tell a fellow Catholic to sit in the car? Just because two or more were gathered in His name is no reason for the silly chaotic stuff that goes on at some masses.
Why not sit in the car? Because Jesus is on the altar. And we are, two or more, gathered in His name inside the church — even if we are not glad-handing. There is time for socializing after Mass. During Mass I quietly and solemnly reflect on the Sacrifice He made for me and for mankind. Somehow the Mass survived hundreds of years without high fives and fist bumps. Some people still prefer a more reverent Mass. To each his own.
Mass is supposed to be between you and Jesus and no one else. It’s not a social function.
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My initial impulse was to criticize your observations and remarks, but upon reflection, it’s quite clear that your comment is actually a representative point of view of the neo-Catholic Church. You (along with the priests and bishop who taught you to think as you have) precisely capture the heart and soul of what the modern Church is about today––each other. Not God, but simply the relationship and interactions between our neighbors and friends. This is not Catholicism; it actually is Protestantism.
Many years ago, before the Church turned left at Vatican II and embraced Protestantism (and humanism), a Catholic attended Mass for precisely the reason notaliberal gave: to see and receive Jesus Christ in the flesh––to become one with Him. When we entered the Church in those pre-1960 days we remained silent because we were in the presence of God. If we had to speak to someone it was done in a respectful whisper. No one ever clapped in a Church. Women wore veils and everyone knew they were in a holy place.
Today, the Church that you cheerlead has been decimated by the modernists. If there is a tabernacle at all, it is more often than not placed off to the side. The vast majority of those Catholics who are still attending Mass, believe, like the Protestants, that the Holy Eucharist is merely a symbol of Jesus Christ.