Hen House

As someone said, " Sitting in a hen house does not make you a hen."  I think the same goes with sitting in a church at a worship service or just sitting there.  It does not make you a Christian.  Or synagogue make you a Jew and so on.  There has to be some action.  People sit in recovery meetings and do little else and wonder why they are not doing and feeling better.  There are instruction manuals, bibles, big books, sutras, upanishads and so on, but one must read and follow them to make some positive change in one's life.  Ordination gave me the title, "Paulist priest," but only ministry and daily prayer, makes me a Paulist.  Simply saying mass is not enough.