IRRELIGIOUS BOREDOM

The mass has aged to be a tried and tested formula wherein at every beginning, man should reconcile himself to God: admitting his failures and recounting to himself and to other persons that he is weak. And they say, it is the reenactment of the history of salvation (Have we really been saved? From what?) It goes on with an enormous collection of liturgical prayers compiled in a so-called Sacramentary (indeed, with no variations at all) and ends with such prayers as well after the people received their share of a piece of thinly baked starch (something that is being taken for most of us, Catholics not anymore out of spiritual necessity but a Sunday habitual practice and a pretty cheap exchange for our generosity during the offertory). If people know the real meaning of what they are doing, I doubt.
I have just observed that people inside the Church has been transformed into religious puppets. They stand, sit and kneel when they are asked to and because everybody does exactly the same thing except for the priest who gets much of the exposure (He does most of the talking which are most of the time, because everything he says have no novelty, will let you find yourself in a trance, a blank stare when after which you find that you have not even realized, that the Mass is now about to end). Hence, it is not anymore a blunt thing to say if the religious celebration inside the Church has now become a center of boredom. It is because you already know what will happen. And the priests are now complaining that most of the people are attending Church services only in times of special occasions. It may be because sparks of novelty only arises in such times.
Such boredom is obvious in the way people behave inside the Church, devising acts that shows an unconscious protest: sleeping during the sermon, flirting with their girlfriends, texting while inside the Church, chatting with friends, donating a few bucks and of course, criticizing the priest in each and every way possible.
I am affected by the way I see people going to the church like a sheep seeking the help of a good shepherd and takes home nothing even a piece of what they are looking for. I don’t see the point now why the Church persistently claims that the apparent loss of meaning and identity of the people is brought about by modernity because it is not just the exact case. A Church who cannot even inspire people to be a better individual and seek for their life’s meaning also brought it about. It is the Church who laid the foundations of meaninglessness.
I may say that I’m an almost faithful Catholic. I seldom miss Sunday masses. But I said almost because people like me should see in such liturgical gatherings the importance of our life’s meaning and the importance of other people around us. I suppose, in the long span of time that I have been attending masses not to mention that when I was in the seminary, I am compelled to attend daily masses, it contributed to me a very little grasp of what is really necessary. It is because what matters most is not the host one receives during the communion but the way the individual would see himself after. It should be the heart of every celebration and I’m afraid we are attending a liturgical gathering comparable to a body ran by the mechanistic nature of the roman missal.