text: Here's a test....what year did the words of institution ("ritual") become formalized in the early Church...the very words you hear today, if you were to go to Mass?
  
  Does a family have customs and traditions? Is that a bad thing?
  
  Have you ever tried to carve out a distinction between worship and veneration?   Most people today seem unable to put the intellectual energy into certain matters, such that they can make (and hold them in memory for contemplation) these sorts of distinctions.  They sort of fall back into lukewarmness and declare A = B. 
  
  Which specific teachings of Jesus conflict with tradition?  Or vice versa.  Let's get into real details instead of innuendo.