By Fr. Bill Peckman, ChurchPop - How did we get here?.. The major error was ditching the transcendent. We domesticated God… It means we act as if Jesus was merely human, that He is a guru, self-help teacher, social worker extraordinaire… By ripping out the transcendent heart out of worship, we reduced Mass. It is little wonder that belief in the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist plummeted. It is little wonder that priestly vocations plummeted. While the generation that ushered these things love them, the subsequent generations fled in droves… With worship emptied of the transcendent, Catholic life soon followed.