I love going to Mass and feel it is a gift as well as a chance to worship.
I have a good example though of being careful of how you word things. Yesterday the woman who had volunteered to clean the church this month called an said she wouldn’t be able so I told my 4th graders that we were going to go pick up trash and straighten the books. One of the kids objected and said that he didn’t come to Catechism to clean the church. I said that was okay he didn’t have to help but that God had given us an opportunity to serve Him.
That changed everything, we not only picked up the trash, we vacuumed, mopped and even cleaned the bathrooms, not my choice but theirs. Then we knelt before the Tabernacle and thanked Him for letting us serve Him and then they insisted on kneeling before the altar and praying.
So, yeah, words matter.
Yes they do.. unfortunately Catholics replay the nailing of Christ on a cross and then worship a cookie ...