You can now obtain the release form and the what-to-bring list by clicking on the “etc” button and downloading the .pdfs. I’m going, so that should be more than enough reason for anyone and everyone to want to go, right? Okay, okay, okay. Come anyway! (:

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I know I’m constantly wondering or keeping an eye on what I get out of each Mass that I go to. There are times where I feel like each and every Mass were specifically said for just my ears, and there are other times, like recently, where I leave Mass thinking that I am no closer to any truth or knowledge than I was when I walked in. I wouldn’t ever consider it a “waste of time,” but it sure would be nice to “get something” out of Mass each and every time I go. After all, that’s kind of human nature, is it not? It’s a what-have-you-done-for-me-lately? kind of mentality that we have, or at least I know I do at times.

So I was kind of shocked when, during our extremely awesome LifeNight, Fr. Jeff said (something to the effect of), “I don’t care if you get anything out of Mass.” He followed that up with saying that it would be nice if we got something out of Mass every time we went.

But the point is: that’s not why we’re there!

We’re not there to get something out of it. We’re there to put something into it. You see, the word “Liturgy” comes from a Greek word that means “work of the people.” We are there to serve!

I don’t think that I’ve ever thought of Mass in quite such a way before. Granted, I’d always thought that “you get out of it what you put into it” and that, when I didn’t get anything out of Mass, it was largely my own fault. But I had never really considered Mass as solely an opportunity to serve my God.

Looking at it in this way very much changes the way that I feel about Mass. It’s now less about me, and more about praising Him. What an awesome opportunity we have each week to put aside ourselves- our doubts, our worries, our faults, our imperfections- and just praise Him. We don’t have to worry about whether or not we’re getting anything out of Mass, a thought that has prevented me from really engulfing myself in the experience on more than one occasion; that’s not what we’re there for. We can be consumed with the thought that we are there solely to serve and praise God.

“My soul, my soul must sing! My soul, my soul must sing! My soul, my soul must sing: Beautiful One!”

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