Konzentration aufs Wesentliche

"A few years ago, I was out in Southern California, visiting a school in Orange County. I can’t remember the name of the parish to which the students took me for Mass, but what has stayed with me ever since is the conversation as they drove me back to the hotel. Talk about the homily’s content didn’t interest them; even talk about the homily’s lack of content didn’t interest them. 'I just kind of tune it out,' the driver said, and the others all agreed. 'I just go to church for confession, to pray, and to take Communion,' added the young woman in the back. 'At least the priests can do that.'" (Joseph Bottum: When the Swallows Come Back to Capistrano: Catholic Culture in America; in: First Things)