{"id":17235,"date":"2012-06-04T09:27:29","date_gmt":"2012-06-04T14:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.austincnm.com\/?p=17235"},"modified":"2012-06-05T22:15:01","modified_gmt":"2012-06-06T03:15:01","slug":"we-cant-be-catholic-robots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atxcatholic.com\/index.php\/2012\/06\/we-cant-be-catholic-robots\/","title":{"rendered":"We Can’t Be Catholic Robots"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It’s easy to forget what something means when you’ve said it a million times. It’s kind of like when you say a word out loud over and over. Somehow it manages to lose its meaning. Fork. Fork. Fork. Fork. Fork. Fork. Fork. Does it sound funny now?<\/p>\n

It is possible that this happens to us in our everyday lives? That we say something over and over again until it sounds funny, or doesn’t really resonate like it did the first time. At Mass, we recite the same prayers, we say the same things and it’s easy to haphazardly end up ‘going through the motions.’<\/p>\n

I’ll be the first to admit to this. Sometimes I realize that the whole Eucharistic Prayer has gone by and I haven’t remembered a word of it. There was something else rolling around in my brain (page numbers for the Communion Hymn or what I’m doing later (yes, I know, it’s horrible)) and I ended up spaced out.<\/p>\n

There was a video that floated around on Facebook among my Catholic friends a month or so ago. At first, it seems like it’s just a video on what the Creed means. I mean, come one, we all went to CCD when we were in middle school. We all worked hard to memorize the words, and then re-memorize when the new translation came out. But 20 seconds into the video, it slowly became about something else.<\/p>\n