In my long slow transition from joy at being ordained into the priesthood (as I thought) in the PepsiCola church to my sense that something wasn't quite right, to my final and happy swimming of the Tiber, one of the things that got my attention was the sense that a lot of clergy thought the Mass was something that needed, well, spicing up somehow.
The notion that He through whom the worlds were made was offering Himself for us and to us just wasn't enough for them. They needed, I don't know, something MORE -- a little, y'know, pizzazz ...
Heard a fabulous sermon on Corpus Christi: It kind of flipped Augustine on his head and suggested that if you lose the faithful discenment of the Body in the Sacrament, you will lose it everywhere sooner or later.
And as a case in point ....
if you lose the faithful discenment of the Body in the Sacrament, you will lose it everywhere sooner or later.
Beautiful sermon; thank you for sharing it!