> 2. Fun? Who said Mass was supposed to be fun? I've always viewed Mass as a renewal of my relationship with God... almost as a private thing. It's a communion with God, assisted by a priest... the rest of the congregation is just there to affirm you and support you. But it's still an individual thing. You get out of it what you put into it.

I'm not a Catholic, but I am a Christian; specifically a Baptist. We don't have Mass, but we do celebrate Communion, i.e. The Lord's Supper, regularly. And we view it in much the same way that you do.

A renewal of your relationship with God is a very good way to put it. It is a time to reflect on your life; to examine yourself before God and make certain that there is absolutely nothing getting in the way of your relationship with Him.

It's a very serious and reverent time, and you're right. It doesn't need to be "fun." But neither should it become a meaningless ritual. Paul rebuked the Corinthians for that very sin, and a sin it was...serious enough that many of the people who abused the Lord's Supper died because of it.

It is very good to see you, a Catholic, taking your relationship with God seriously. I have known very few Catholics who did. Most that I have known were Catholic because their family was Catholic; they went to church because it was expected of them and it was the respectable thing to do. It really was just a religion to them, without any real meaning to their everyday lives. And what is the point of that?