By Christopher Lux

I’d never ever gone to a Latin Mass. I experienced never desired to go. Although the Latin Mass was growing in appeal among U.S. and Canadian Catholics, it always puzzled me personally that anyone would like to visit a Mass they could understand n’t. That all chang ed for me personally in Ecuador.

Last 12 months my spouse, son, and I also relocated to Cuenca. We went to Mass said in Spanish, mostly in the cathedral, though we sporadically decided to go to a couple other churches. Every Sunday, we sat in the middle of Ecuadorians, hearing a Mass we didn’t understand — this is certainly, we didn’t comprehend the language for the Mass. Needless to say, we knew that which was taking place because the purchase associated with Mass is universal.

Our five-year-old reported he didn’t determine what the priest ended up being saying, and I also had doubts about attending the Spanish Mass. Then when we found out about a Mass being said in English, we tried it down. For a few Sundays we went along to this Mass. It absolutely was a little group of north People in america which had arranged for the Mass to be stated within their, and my, language — English hymns, English readings, English homily. Read More >