Beyond The Pew - Episode 4 - Infinite Worship

Transcript:
Somehow the most basic, yet fundamental aspect of our Catholic faith is the hardest for youth, and let's be honest, many adults, to get excited about.
What I’m talking about is the Mass. You hear people of all ages, not just young people, say all the time that it’s boring and outdated, too traditional… and I fell into that category for years until I learned the history and the reasons behind the Mass. One I did, I realized what a beautiful expression of infinite worship that it is.
You see, I use the word "infinite" because, as creatures, anything we create is finite. No matter how beautiful the praise and worship song is that we create, even though God is going to love it, it is not going to be infinite. And an infinite God deserves infinite worship; we can't create that ourselves. That worship has to be revealed to us, shown to us. And so we need to find out how God wants us to worship Him the way He deserves.
So how is it that God wants us to worship Him? Let's read. In Matthew 26:26-29, it says
Now as they were eating, Jesus took bread and blessed and broke it, and gave it to the disciples and said, "Take eat, this is my Body." And He took a chalice and when He had given thanks, He gave it to them saying "Drink of it, all of you, for this is my blood of the covenant which has poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins."
This is the moment when Jesus revealed to his disciples how to worship him infinitely, by consuming Him. By consuming the bread of heaven, in the body and blood. He is the atoning sacrifice, the infinite worship that God invites us to every Sunday. We get to participate in this.
God told us how to worship him, so we do that. Regardless of how it makes us feel or how dated it may seem. We worship our infinite God the way that He revealed to us how to worship Him. The Mass is about Him, not us. But at the same time, when we come He gives all of Himself to us, making us into Himself by consuming His body. 
We come to worship Him the way that He tells us to worship Him, and it's not about us, it's about Him. And He still chooses to give all of Himself to us, every time. In that infinite sacrifice on the altar, Jesus Christ's sacrifice is made present again. He's not re-sacrificed. We are brought into that same atoning sacrifice at Calvary. As we hear in John 6:52-57,
The Jews then disputed among themselves, saying, "How can this man give us His flesh to eat?" So Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly I say to you, unless you eat of the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life within you. He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life and I will raise him up on the last day. For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and me in Him."
Of course this is a hard teaching, back then it was even harder. But did Jesus change His words? Did He make it easier for them? No. He let them leave. This teaching is so fundamental that Jesus Christ himself let people leave Him rather than make it easier for them to be a part of what He was doing. Do you think He would have let them leave if it was purely a symbol and they misunderstood Him?
The Eucharist has been called the source and summit of our Catholic faith. Everything about being Catholic flows to and from the Eucharist. At Mass we become what we eat, we are drawn into the body of Christ. We are united with our Father and with all of heaven. Now, this is something that we should be excited about. And our kids should be excited about! But maybe we need to learn a little bit more, as parents, so that we can share that excitement with our whole family, and we come to Mass on Sunday ready to worship our infinite God in the infinite way that He revealed to us.