What's the point of going? (Christopher Alt, SJ)

   All of us have formed habitual, often just-below-the-surface, resistance to letting ourselves be radically transformed by our Eucharistic faith and practice. 

  Many churchgoers have been unable to participate in the liturgy for months. Some are just now beginning to return. Where is the grace in this hiatus and slow trickle back? Perhaps it gives us a chance to pause and ask ourselves where chasms have formed between how we regard and treat others with the radical faith Jesus gifted us. 

   Perhaps, it gives us a moment to simply ask: What’s the point of going, if the bread changes but we don’t?

--Christopher Alt, SJ

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