Moments of silence rare or absent, depending on priest’s preferences, which can vary day to day.

Head trip for all: instruct, instruct, instruct. Less experience than lesson.

All to meet “pastoral” needs, which can also vary day to day.

Closes off possibilities of interior life, mimicking the world as it is.

Who needs it?

Plus distractions.

Reader lady, who reciting the closing line says alarmingly, repeatedly, “Let us pray TO the Lord,” as if to fend off the heresy that says we can pray only about the Lord, because He can’t or won’t listen to us and/or we dare not make bold to do so.

Part of the great preposition war raging in today’s church.

Not just prepositions. Priest intones “ALL the saints,” lest we be choosy in the matter. And not just on All Saints Day.

Can (maybe) solve this problem with meditation on and prayers to the saint(s)…