4 October 2024
The majority […] don’t go to the service to be entertained. They go to
use the service, or, if you prefer, to enact it. Every service is a structure
of acts and words through which we receive a sacrament, or repent, or
supplicate, or adore. And it enables us to do these things best—if you like, it
“works” best—when through long familiarity, we don’t have to think about it. As
long as you notice, and have to count, the steps, you are not yet dancing but
only learning the dance. A good shoe is a shoe you don’t notice. Good reading
becomes possible when you need not consciously think about your eyes, or light,
or print, or spelling. The perfect
church service would be one we are almost unaware of; our attention would have
been on God.
C.S. Lewis
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