by Chris Netterville
Today, of course, is Easter, and so I decided (along with several others of the group) to go to the local Catholic church to a Easter sunday mass to experience the culture of the Latin American Catholic church on one of their most celebrated holidays. We arrived about ten minutes early and grabbed some seats in the back, but even when the service started at noon, the slow trickle, if not steady stream, of people entering the cathedral did not cease throughout the entire service; I guess it is better to be late to church than to not go at all. The service was divided into sections, containing separate lessons from the Bible, sections of song and verse, and sections of creeds in which the congregation would participate in reciting. Near the end, the priests prepared the communion at the altar in front of the table, where the congregation could partake of the blood and body of Christ. Overall, the service was around an hour or so long and was a wonderfully enriching experience of the culture of Easter mass.
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