Author Tim O\'Malley, in a series of reflections on every part of the Mass, challenges us to turn the idea of boredom on its head, calling boredomthe "good" boredom that opens us to the quiet interior space where we can encounter Goda "sweet gift." It is there that full participation in the Mass becomes possiblethe potential to be transfixed by a ritual, to contemplate the readings, to savor the Eucharist.
To be fruitfully "Bored again.".
Author Tim O\'Malley, in a series of reflections on every part of the Mass, challenges us to turn the idea of boredom on its head, calling boredomthe "good" boredom that opens us to the quiet interior space where we can encounter Goda "sweet gift." It is there that full participation in the Mass becomes possiblethe potential to be transfixed by a ritual, to contemplate the readings, to savor the Eucharist
