Even if she has passed away. In a sense, we are surrounded by the dead, even though this may seem strange to us. We worship the new and improved model of everything. We don't care for history very much. In most societies enamored of technology as we are, there is a prejudice against tradition and history.
Technology has an exaggerated confidence only in what is new.
This is the struggle many of us have over the new forms of worship. They seem so disconnected to our tradition. When you come to church, you come to a place where we are connected to and respectful of our past. It will appear different from the rest of our lives which worships only the present. We sing old songs which don't sound like modern pop tunes and we recite together words which express our sense of God's presence in our lives.