We are not customers at our local parish. The "horizontal" aspect of communion - where we are in communion with each other - is important too, not just the "vertical" aspect when God comes to us individually. Unless the parish programme is really garbage, it is very unhealthy to disregard the parish programme as not being good enough for us.

By the way, I attended the beatification of (now Saint) John Henry Newman, and we parked on the old Rover plant. God has a plan!