We live in an ever-changing world with new challenges and new experiences. Nothing stays the same in life, and ours is no different. Therefore it is good to ask ourselves why we do certain things and abandon others. In our current environment, where gathering with others has become outright dangerous for some of us, we have to learn to mitigate anew what has been normal for us before. Going to Church is one of the areas that we look at and evaluate almost every week.

Below is a shortlist, reasons for why we go to church.

• Because it is not good to be alone
• To take my rightful place humbly within the family of humanity
• Because God calls me there
• To dispel my fantasies about myself
• Because 10,000 saints have told me so
• To help others carry their pathologies and to have them help me to carry mine
• To dream with others
• To practice for heaven
• For the pure joy of it

Taken from 'The Holy Longing' by Ronald Rolheiser