text: First, "overly" is one of those words it is impossible to measure. So one woman's "overly" might be another's "barely enough."  The thing is, the mass should be both vertical (directed "up" to God) AND horizontally--directed OUT to our sisters and brothers we are worshipping with because God is not just "up there" but found in our fellow parishioners too. Jesus is present not only in the Bread and Wine but in our neighbors in the pews. 
  
  But following up on ghost's point (above) would you like to share why YOU prefer the EF? I'd like to understand better.