“…this secularization of the Church herself that forces so many people, especially the young ones, simply to leave the Church, where no one reveals to them what her real essence is, what it means to be her member, where one hardly hears the appeal to deepen the inner life, the spiritual and the religious, and where, in fact, the spiritual is reduced to a minimum at the benefit of banquets, jubilees, financial campaigns and entertainment.”
(Fr Alexander Schmemann, ‘Confession and Communion’)