Why We Go, by Regis Martin

For those of us who manage to get to Mass at least once a week, not infrequently arriving moments before the sound of the opening hymn, the distance between car and church is only a parking lot away, even less if you’re lucky enough to be dropped off a couple feet from the door. It is no great spatial challenge, in other words, to navigate the short distance. Nor is the issue of time a particular problem, unless, of course, having slept in you find yourself showing up so late you wonder if it was worthwhile going in the first place.    

Still, most of us do go, thinking it sufficiently worthwhile to make the sacrifice. Week after week, in fact, we put in the time, dutifully finding the nearest pew where, for the space of an hour or so, we stand, sit, or kneel alongside hundreds of other similarly situated members of Christ’s Body. …

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