“secular liturgies.” These are personal and cultural habits that we routinely practice with our bodies and which have the effect of mis-forming our desires. These secular liturgies ultimately mis-direct our desires toward those things that falsely claim to fulfill our longings and that manage to draw us away from the very communion with God for which we were created. Whether it is manifested through how we seek out some inchoate satisfaction when we go shopping, how we absent-mindedly eat prepackaged meals in front of a screen, or how we daily feel discontented when we step on the bathroom
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