That’s about the right time. Mass is Mass. It’s not a circus or a picnic which is what it has turned into since Vat11. Attention spans my foot. We as children sat through Masses and special Masses and listened to and responded over and over again to the Priest during a Litany. It’s self discipline. However, someone giving a speech for over an hour or so is absolutely ridiculous and seems to me to be all about the one giving the speech. Three hours in the church??? We used to go to Mass then home to be with our families and enjoy a nice Sunday dinner prepared by our mother. Mass was Mass and the rest of the day was the rest of the day.
Some people would go to three hours of chirchin and then go home for fried chicken, a nap, and then back to chirch fro round two.
Very true about the self-discipline though. Thats why my parents made me do it—to BUILD attention span, to BUILD self-discipline.
Sometimes I wonder whether it is really the public that has the short attention span, or if it’s all the fault of the drive by media that swarms on one thing for a day a week a month and then swoooosh, off to the next tragedy.