Consider this question: how did the church grow so quickly in the earliest days? Without a doubt, 3000 people were attracted by the miracle of tongues when St Peter and the other apostles spoke outside the temple on Pentecost, 50 days after Jesus’ resurrection. And while preaching on the streets continued, it wasn’t street preaching that produced the steady commitment and the sustained spiritual growth of those 3000 and the church-family that they formed.
The Mass is from God
The Mass is not a human construct, fashioned according to our notions of pleasing worship. Rather, the Mass is divinely designed, fashioned by God to the smallest detail, including the style and shape of the vestments. This means that the Divine Liturgy is not divine because it is about God or in God’s presence; rather, the Mass is divine because it comes from God.