Reinventing the Mass

Mass (Picture from farm4.static.flickr.com)

This has nothing to do with food. But I had a realization when it comes to forms of worship, especially for the Catholic church. It occurred to me that an hour of mass or even 15-minutes for the daily rosary turns into a ritualistic tradition that gets boring. It was a Purple Cow after revising the age-old Latin procedure, but now – it’s so ordinary, so predictable. If the Church wants to grab the attention of its future consumers, the youth, it needs to reinvent itself.

Have you ever wondered why after watching a very good movie for 2 hours, it doesn’t bother you? Same with eating with friends in a great restaurant with delicious food for 3-5 hours. Or even playing video games for 24 hours straight.

Why can’t our minds stay still in mass for an hour, participate, and go out and buzzing about it after?

If the Church wants to motivate people, especially the kids (not just with the kid’s parents forcing it on them), they need to deliver something different. A great sermon perhaps? A visiting artist singing opera? A change with the mass practice? El Shaddai is doing it. Some Christian chuch groups are doing it. Kids nowadays have less time on their hands and providing the same old-show they already know on an annual scale provides the same old response – boredom and apathy.