travel thread

[mocat]

after growing up protestant i went to my first catholic mass sometime in high school, and i could not believe how short the sermon/homily was. in a 60 minute mass, like 8 minutes are the priest actually talking to the congregation. the rest is all ritual. please note there is no judgement either way, just observation.

[star seed 7]

My only church exposure was in grade school at my grandparent's church of christ cult and it was always 3 hours of sermon with singing every now and then. So I thought mass was that long too since everyone always complains about how long it is.

[star seed 7]

Those 3 hours were just the Sunday afternoon thing, we also went to church Wednesday and Friday evening.

[mocat]

My only church exposure was in grade school at my grandparent's church of christ cult and it was always 3 hours of sermon with singing every now and then. So I thought mass was that long too since everyone always complains about how long it is.

imo when people complain about the length of mass, they must be coming from a secular POV (in other words no history of going to church), rather than a protestant POV. because with the notable exception of weddings, catholic services are always shorter than protestant services.

[star seed 7]

Bringing it back to the travel thread, I was very impressed with the mosques in Istanbul, they would cycle in and out like a thousand people for prayer in like 20 minutes!

[DQ12]

Yeah this Mass had no music (rare for a 9:00 Mass) and the the liturgy just felt like it was in fast forward the whole time.  We rolled in at about 9:03 and they were already at the Gospel.  Mrs. DQ turned to me and was like “do we think it started at 8:45?” I kind of shrugged, but then after a few minutes, I noticed the priest was moving at 2x speed.  Wasn’t even the shortest homily, really.  Just moved exceptionally quickly.

Anyway, Omaha - great spot.

[TheHamburglar]

1 hour.

As a non-catholic married into it, it was quite a shock when "when/where is the church" became a common phrase while on vacation. I've sat through quite a few non-english spoken masses fresh off the beach pak'd.

You didn’t even include the best experiences from this: OKC & me getting locked in the prison parking lot in Bamburg.

[Stevesie60]

Yeah this Mass had no music (rare for a 9:00 Mass) and the the liturgy just felt like it was in fast forward the whole time.  We rolled in at about 9:03 and they were already at the Gospel.  Mrs. DQ turned to me and was like “do we think it started at 8:45?” I kind of shrugged, but then after a few minutes, I noticed the priest was moving at 2x speed.  Wasn’t even the shortest homily, really.  Just moved exceptionally quickly.

Anyway, Omaha - great spot.

Just saw they don't have a Jose Peppers there and was bummed for you.