Some rituals ok, some...not so much

A portion of an article from the Internet Monk about communion. What I am clipping is his remark about the madness involved in saying one ritual is not necessary because repitition of it will lead to it being meaningless, but other rituals won't share the same fate. I have never understood that.

clipped from www.internetmonk.com

In my Baptist upbringing, we were frequently told that weekly communion turned the supper into a meaningless, rote ritual. Roman Catholics and those in the “Disciples of Christ” churches were examples. Of course, this same standard didn’t seem to apply to preaching, the offering, choir specials, hymns and, of course, the offering. It is was always obvious to me that the kinds of demeaning language used in describing frequent communion was not rooted in the Bible, but is simple prejudice: we don’t want to be like the Catholics.