"When I was young and serving Mass," the director responded, "there was no doubt that there was a sense of the sacred. I tried to convey this in 'Silence,' during the scene of the Mass in the farmhouse in Goto. At any rate, I remember going out on the street after the Mass was over and wondering: How can life just be going on? Why hasn't everything changed? Why isn't the world directly affected by the body and blood of Christ? That's the way that I experienced the presence of God when I was very young."

mmm, had the same question. God wasn't different after Mass, so, I must be the one that's different. A companion question was, where does "church" stop and where does it start? I stood in the doorway, shifting back and forth. Decided that "all of it" is church.  Still working on not being different before or after Mass...Still working on remembering that 'all of it' is church.