Returning to the source

[aadler]

Yesterday Susan and I went to Mass for the first time since we started our latest travels. There were two Catholic churches close to our current location, and we had checked out both a few days ago. We went to the one I most liked the looks of (more old-fashioned, I’m strongly oriented toward tradition), and …

New Mexico, of course, has a substantial Hispanic population. Where we’d been living before, our church also offered a Spanish Mass; here, English is the ‘also’. That’s the Mass we attended, of course. Even with that, I was more than a little surprised that I only saw four people in the church who were obviously non-Hispanic; Susan and I were two of them, and the other two were black men. (One of whom was the priest, clearly from Africa, but both his English and his occasional Spanish were easy and clear.)

We may try the other church, just to see what it’s like, but if we keep attending this one till we move on, that’ll be fine. It’s nice to be back in community.

Comments

Interesting, and refreshing.

[vantiri.livejournal.com]

I do agree with most if not all of your stances you've expressed... yet the primary problems for me is that the traditional teachings when I began to analyze the teachings of the church, and the analogy of the faith; that alone forever rightly deleted my capacity to even *have* a god; as He has by those teachings that they laid out proven to NOT be just, if not just to the innocents, not good, if not good, then He as God must be wicked and a false-god... it is the teachings themselves that did it; not any desire for wickedness: that disgusts me to no end!