[Uri’el-2012]

Mark>RE: Today’s Catholic Mass in the stock-in-trade neighborhood parish is banal, drained of its richness, sacred music, and rituals. . . . Tens of thousands (myself included) now find it hard to attend Mass and experience the Divine.

All my experience fiercely suggests that ritual virtually always and ALWAYS WITHIN A FEW REPETITIONS--becomes a DEADLY PREVENTION of EXPERIENCING GOD.

Hosea 6:6 For I delight in loyalty rather than sacrifice,
And in the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.

An invitation to come and know by reading the Word of G-d.

shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach

[Steelfish]

You misread. This is not about “burnt offerings” It’s all about the soul being exalted and giving thanks and praise to the glory of God by sacred reverence and songs of praise. This is the RITUAL we are talking about.