--- title: "Altaration: The Father Who Wants to Feed Us" description: Teens are usually disengaged at Mass not because they don’t care about God or don’t want to know Him but because no one has ever connected the dots between the ritual and the relationship. 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Used by permission.](https://www.catholicmom.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/Altaration-image-550x260-14.jpg?width=550&height=260&name=Altaration-image-550x260-14.jpg)](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/Altaration-image-14.jpg) Copyright 2015 Ascension Press. Used by permission. Teens are usually disengaged at Mass not because they don’t care about God or don’t want to know Him but because no one has ever connected the dots between the ritual and the relationship. *Altaration* acknowledges “the elephant in the sanctuary” as Mark Hart calls it, encouraging and challenging teens to take another look – a deeper look – at the liturgy and all that heaven is doing here on earth through it. https://youtu.be/3n0YmgGtGi0?list=PLqhxRU_hZjzvvYYe4gzX-eNludmiHHfnr *Copyright 2015 Mark Hart. Image copyright 2015 Ascension Press. 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