Every year or so, I have to re-read this article by Fr. Dave Nix, and it never get’s stale.

Excerpt: ”… Scott Hahn “book clubs” are all great for budding intellectuals who don’t have to work 80 hours a week on a Louisiana oil barge. But what happens to the run-of-the-mill poor Catholic? How does the blue collar worker (who might be too busy to read a book by Tim Staples) receive catechesis on the sacraments?

The answer is that for thousands of years, the catechesis happened by kneeling at Holy Mass.  … He might wonder:  Why did he have to kneel at an altar rail? … Traditional Latin Mass engenders catechesis because it engenders automatic reverence and intimacy … The average illiterate Catholic learned that Jesus was truly present by simply attending Mass. He did not need a book tailored to a bourgeois intellectual group to tell us the Mass is still “valid” even if it doesn’t appear to be so.”