tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8697143.post-77659302736083558952007-10-07T19:44:00.000-04:002007-10-07T19:44:00.000-04:00As a follow up...<BR/><BR/>I lived in Guadalajara, Mexico for 10 weeks in the summer of 2006. It was an immersion to learn the language and culture of the Mexican people. I knew zero (none, nada, nothing) of the Spanish language when I went, so I was starting at the most basic level. During that time I attended daily Mass (my first one on the night I arrived) in Spanish and was very intrigued at the way I could follow, understand, and participate in a language I did not know. As I learned some Spanish and began to pick up a few words here and there, it became an even better experience. I asked my teachers to help me learn the basic Mass responses and was able to even get the gist of the readings and homilies over time - not perfectly, but I could understand the basic themes. <BR/><BR/>It was a great experience seeing people within a different culture and with a different language worship the Lord and celebrate in ways that were both similar and different to my own. I think you should give yourself the opportunity to attend a Mass in another language and see - whether Latin, Spanish, Vietnamese, or whatever. Even watching a Papal Mass on TV can offer a little of this experience, but not like being there.johntheblessedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14350508665314422496noreply@blogger.com