text: Well, let's stop and change then lens of how we are viewing all of this.  First, you are leaving out some particularly vital Gospel passages that give full support to regular attendance at Mass.  Jesus Himself told us that whenever two or more are gathered in His name, He is with us.  I know this doesn't just pertain to a Mass, but the Eucharistic Celebration is the Church's most public communal prayer of all of its rituals, and the Church itself recognized this as it progressed and grew in its second millennia. The symbol of joining as a community in observance of our shared beliefs has it roots in the earliest human groups when a number of those primitive peoples lived together in caves, and shared meals as part of their daily routine.  The Exodus story of the Jewish people's liberation from Egypt is full of accounts of shared meals and of course, manna from heaven to save them from starvation.  This all formed the basis for Jesus and His disciples (continued)