Gashwin Gomes, who is a normally US-based Catholic blogger with Indian roots, is in India for the summer, and reports on a discouraging Mass-going experience (be sure to read the comments on the post as well)

All through Mass yesterday I tried so darn hard to stay calm, and to focus on prayer and to tell myself to shut up, to stop being so critical, to focus on the Presence of Our Lord. I failed miserably.

Until the Liturgy of the Eucharist. When I finally shut my stupid, arrogant self up to pray, to prepare, oh so meagerly, to receive Our Lord in Communion.

[And then, I said Vespers on returning home. Which finally calmed me down.]

Am I being unreasonable? Maybe I’m not getting something. Maybe I’m expecting too much from a parish.