You have an extremely utilitarian and shallow view of what liturgy is. The Mass is not some industrial laboratory for manufacturing consecrated Hosts on demand—a workshop where beauty, decorum, prayerful contemplation are mere frills—”bells and whistles.”
You seem to think that any hideous, raucous hootenanny is just fine, as long as the consecrated Hosts get manufactured and passed out.
That's not what I meant and you KNOW it. You are simply taking the WORSE take on what I wrote. Why, I don't know.
Take a look at the history of the Mass and see how it has changed over the last 2000 years. There are high and low Masses, weddings, funerals, singing, organs, pianos, chants...but THEY don't make a Mass a Mass.
The ESSENCE of the Mass, if you can READ what I write, is the CONSECRATION. That's what Jesus did at His Last Supper. It WAS/IS a meal, first, last and always.
If you REALLY want to see the ESSENCE of a Mass, just see a Mass being celebrated during combat. No bells and whistles there at all.
Now go away and leave me alone, please.
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Discuss the issues all you want, but do not make it personal.