This morning, hannah and i decided that we would go to this cathedral down the road for church this morning. Turned out to be a cathilic church...so we experienced mass in german this morning...random and totally funny.
The sermon i think was a catholic version of a pentacostal fire and brimstone speil. Why do i think this? since we all know i dont understand a freakin word of deutch (and the service was in deutch...). becuase during the sermon...in the middle of the priests impassioned german speech, the words 'so you think life is a party?' came out of his mouth in english. (a fine example of the wierd mix of complete german with a tad bit of english spoken here...) followed bt a string of very serious german...and then there it was again...'so you think that life is a party??' followed by some dramatic hand gestutres and more serius german. deffinately odd to have your first mass experience in a language that you have zero comprehension of. but we wanted to go to church this morning, and everthing around here is in german, and this church was the only we ran across that had a readerboard so we could tell the service times. It was interesting to see the architechtural differences between the german cathedrals (granted this one is relatively small...) and those elsewhere in europe. They are comparitavely plain and have much more wood than stone...deffinately not as glitzy either. Which makes sense if you think about the differences in the poeple of germany in comparison to the french.
All in all, an interesting cultural experience, but still very funny. i bet everyone around us thought we were mutes...since we couldnt really follow along with anything...didnt sing ever, or speak\sing the benediction back to the priest. we probably came off as gernerally irreverent. such is life. :)
that is all for now. im going to put some pics up today though. FINALLY!!!
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