How Is Mass Like a Food Truck?
Some people approach Mass as if its fine dining, and they leave Mass, driving home with their kids, rating the experience  The homily was a little stale, the music was a little spicy...  You are absolutely missing the point. Mass is not like fine dining  its more like a food truck. Now, insofar as Mass is absolutely sacred, its nothing like a food truck. But insofar as its God pulling up into your life to fuel you to get back to work, its exactly like a food truck. This is not just so you rate the experience, and God hasnt just given you all his grace and power just so youd enjoy it. Hes giving you all this to send you into the world. In fact, the whole Mass takes its name from the last words of the Mass in Latin  Ite, Missa Est. Missa means sent, and it sounds like mission for a reason  its the word the Roman commander would use when sending his army on a mission. Two-thirds of Gods name is Go  hes fueling you up to send you. Ask God when youre at Mass, Lord, who are you sending me to? Because when you make it not about you, you get more out of it.