However, it’s rather remarkable that you make this [these] points. I too, was raised within the Church, going so far as to attend a Jesuit university. It’s odd, though, that no one has ever really said this before, and yet it is precisely why I still find myself occasionally at Mass. There is something in the overall, hmm, not just ritual, but that too, that blends together into something more. There is history and even the weight of the dogma adds to the mystery at times. I’ve even found myself at a Latin Mass, nothing like a dead language to make you aware of the sheer length of time, or connection to the mysticism of it there.