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.