C.S. Lewis once discussed the problem in terms I here paraphrase: During Mass I can exercise either a critical or a devotional faculty, and the two are mutually exclusive. If my critical faculty is alert, it interferes with worshiping God, and has to be “lulled to sleep” as it were. The eucharistic rite, when enacted properly, is precisely the instrument by which this faculty can be quieted and the devotional faculty engaged.
–Paul Mankowski, in Philip F. Lawler, ed., Diogenes Unveiled: A Paul Mankowski Collection
