Walter Kerr wrote about how there are no newly-minted holidays these days. (This was in '62, before Martin Luther King day.) And he claims existing holidays like Christmas are more burden than joy to most.
How successful is a culture that isn't minting new days to celebrate? Where have all the feast days gone? (Well, today is a good one.) Kerr says the inability to play is part of it. Pope John XXIII once said that Americans are bad at praying because "they don't know how to relax".
We would be more playful and joyous if we knew how much God loves us. Love and joy beget love and joy. I can never forget reading Scott Hahn's book "Rome Sweet Home", specifically the chapter on John 6. The Eucharist is a powerful expression of God's love. Peter Kreeft puts it well in his latest book:
For a saint is simply a great lover of God, and nothing elicits love more than love. 'Everybody loves a lover.' Nothing makes us saints faster than being hit over the head with God's love.
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