and Missing the Message.
If your mother did nothing but make dinner and sent you to your room without dinner if she didn't like anything you were doing would you even want to come home to dinner? After a while of that you might just want to get chinese take-out. This is how the catholic church is perceived in large measure. If the Eucharist is the pinnacle and summit-everything revolves around it's dissemination and people like Cardinal Burke want to send politicians he doesn't get to their room without it. God never told the people treking through the desert with Moses that they were to obsess idolotriously over the manna. It was food for the journey not the end of the journey. They didn't bow down on the ground, make great altars and cathedrals to the manna and stay squated on the ground.
The church has to be about Love or it is not about Anything really God. Your mother doesn't make dinner so you can worship the potato. She makes dinner so you have energy to do good, to love hard and live long. People who live to eat not eat to live are said to have an eating "disorder."
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