Smith was set to speak at Rochester College in October at the Everybody’s Got a Hungry Heart Conference. Mark Love, head of the theology department at Rochester College, graciously invited me to bring my theology class to hear the lecture. Considering all of us at Advent were reading Smith’s book, Fr. Shaun and I were eager to attend. I arrived with the four seniors from my theology class, and Mark Love kindly permitted us to sit in the front row. My students were impressed by Smith’s insistence that worship is not about self-expression. God changes us when we confess, commune, and receive the commission. At one point, Smith remarked that he is pleased when he sees a moody fourteen year old attend church because God is shaping him through the rituals and practices going on all around him. The students thought he made a good point. More than anything, they were impressed by the claim that we all have hungry hearts. We are never completely detached, neutral, or dispassionate. We are going to worship, going to serve, going to love. The question is not if, but what, we will love. And Smith reminds all of us that we need the practices handed down from Jesus to the Apostles, from the Apostles to the Apostolic Fathers, from the Apostolic Fathers to the saints and martyrs, from the Church Catholic to us if we want to love Jesus and love His Kingdom of peace and reconciliation.