“…Worship is, as Herbert McCabe recalls, "not merely non-productive, non-moneymaking, but is even non-creative" as it invites us "into the waste of time which is the interior life of the Godhead," whose triune, perichoretic "life is not like the life of the worker or artist but of lovers wasting time with each other uselessly." 108 The alternative offered by this "absolute waste of time," this "sacrifice of praise" (Heb 13:15; Ps 50:14), can reveal excessive practicality for the idol that it is, shatter its biased dictates, and thus set the conditions for an alternative cycle of redemption to emerge. After all, from this encounter, all else follows; as Lonergan writes, those who undergo religious conversion are "ready to deliberate and judge and decide and act with the easy freedom of those that do all good because they are in love."…”