What Is the Point of All This?
It’s a fair question.
What am I hoping to accomplish here? What is this blog for? What’s the goal?
Let me say first what it’s not.
This is not a movement.
It’s not a call to arms.
It’s not a covert campaign to “restore” something broken.
I don’t believe the current Church is interested in restoration. It has made its choices. It has accepted its losses. And most of the people entrusted with its worship don’t know what they’ve thrown away, or worse, don’t care.
So then why write?
Because letting it pass in silence would be its own kind of betrayal.
Because pretending not to see is a form of complicity.
Because even if there is no institution left to save, there are still souls to steady.
I write not because I believe this blog will change the Church.
But because I believe some truths are still worth saying, even if no one listens.
Especially if no one listens.
And if I am honest, yes, there is still something in me that hopes. Not for reform, not for reversal. But for resonance. That someone else might read these words and feel less insane. Less alone. Less tempted to believe that reverence is elitism or that beauty is a burden.
This is not activism. It’s witness.
This blog exists to say:
You’re not the only one who sees what’s happening.
You’re not wrong to grieve.
You’re not wrong to expect more.
If it does nothing else, that’s enough.
This post is part of Sacred Withdrawal: reflections on Catholic liturgy, sacred music, and the cost of fidelity in an age of forgetting.
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