tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13501979.post1773823505254681605..comments2023-06-18T04:28:32.048-07:00Comments on And Also With You: Extreme definitionRaisinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05210877918908790129noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13501979.post-69721014977361889812010-07-30T11:26:03.711-07:002010-07-30T11:26:03.711-07:00You are right about the early-onset hearing loss. ...You are right about the early-onset hearing loss. My niece, whom I love, is barely thirty, and she is as deaf as I am. She is typical of her generation. Attention span is another casualty. I have worked with young people who, despite taking their ADHD medications, are unable to focus on anything for more than a few seconds. It makes me very sad.<br /><br />The implications for liturgy are obvious, if we are to design it with an eye to the culture. Every Sunday must be bigger, better, and louder than the last. There must constantly be more for the eye to see, for all the senses to experience, with rapid-fire stimuli coming from all directions. And it must be different, or at least louder and brighter, than ever before.<br /><br />In my experience (and I think yours, recalling a sermon that I think was yours), children who grow up in this atmosphere do not have any interest in nature. It is boring. Whatever they are playing on their electronic device is louder, faster, brighter, more colorful.<br /><br />The trouble is that none of this is real.<br /><br />In liturgy, we seek to interact with a God who is most decidedly real. It is hard to do so when most of what we use in the liturgy is fake, from pre-recorded music to colorful flashing graphics on the multiple video screens.<br /><br />And, somewhere along the line, Real Life will interrupt our electronic fantasies.Castanea_dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13041129689248653381noreply@blogger.com