If you find the Mass boring, that’s more your problem says the Archbishop of New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan.
He says we find lots of important and necessary activities boring.
“We may find a lot of very important activities in life ‘boring’: visits to the dentist can be that way; kidney patients tell me dialysis three times a week is hardly a thrill; voting is no barrel of laughs,” he says.
“But, all three of them are very significant to our wellbeing, and their value hardly depends on us being ecstatic while doing them.”
The Mass is even more important for the health of our soul than those examples.
“Boredom is our problem, and social commentators tell us we today, so used to thirty-second sound bites, or flipping the channel when we yawn at a program, are susceptible to it.” Read More