[CWW]

Wow, you've been to Mass a few times and so now you're an expert on Catholicism and can make sweeping pronouncements such as "Catholics mourn their faith."

How enlightened.

I guess what I have been doing for 42 years has all been a facade. All of that joy and wonder brought to me by my participation in the Mass and through Church activities must have just been false hope.

[Future Snake Eater]

Where was the joy and wonder? Not all services are made equally, I can understand that (I've been to enough denominations in enough churches to figure that out), but from what I've seen there was no joy. There was no happiness. It was a large group of people (whose faith and devotion I am not questioning, BTW) who seemed to just be going through the motions. It honestly made me cringe and want to ask, "If it seems to bore you so much, then why do you bother?"