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Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitts and this is Ascension Presents.

A little while ago, a friend of mine, who's dating a girl who's not Catholic, brought

her to mass.

And they went to Piccadideural here in Duluth.

And she walked in and she was, she's a Christian and she studies Scripture and she, like,

is an active practicing Christian.

And so she went to her first mass though and she walked in with her, her Starbucks

walked in with her coffee.

And he's like, oh, you can't bring coffee into mass?

And she's like, why not?

Because in her church service, they have a coffee shop in the church, right?

It's an interesting thing.

Have you ever wondered why, as Catholics, we don't have a coffee shop in the church and

we don't serve coffee before mass?

There's two reasons.

One is because we have the Eucharistic fast and so we don't eat an hour before we receive

Holy Communion.

That's one reason.

The other reason is because too many of us, we show up to mass every Sunday and we watch.

Too many Catholics show up to mass and watch mass.

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