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English Mass at Cathedral

Al the optimist

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I must be having a bad hair day. I have been trying to find the thread that Johnnie Walker started about the daily morning service held in English to no avail. So I am sorry to start a new one. I had the pleasure of attending one recently, and although my hearing aids had stopped working on the camino I thoroughly enjoyed it as being (for me) more appropriate than the razamataze of the larger one which I personally feel is adversely affected by tourists. Please I don't want to be contentious in saying this and am not inviting a conversation that detracts from the purpose of the post. It is an intimate and very pilgrim focused mass which is quite peaceful which I would recommend to all. John is usually there so it also gives you an opportunity to thank him for his efforts on our behalf.
As a complete aside my hearing aids are now fully functional - who needs to go to Lourdes?
 
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Al I totally agree and as an Anglican I was welcomed very warmly, invited to read the Psalm and share in the Mass, for the first time ever,. It was very moving.
 
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Al,

Where did you go to a mass in English? And where can I go where I will not be specifically excluded because I am not catholic. At Roncesvalles much of what was in English was to invite people to mass if they were pilgrims AND catholic. I felt more than a little disappointed and excluded and unable to go forward as I would dearly love to have done at the start of my Camino.
 
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Like 'rector' I was asked to read at the English Mass which, being an Elder in the church in the UK, was very moving.
I once asked a Spanish priest if I, as an Anglican, might take Holy Communion in his Catholic church. He turned to me with his two fore-fingers held togather, and said "Anglican, Roman Catholic - mismo [the same]!" and welcomed me for the next seven years to his services.
Generally, the Catholic church in Spain is very friendly towards Anglicans: remember, they never had the 'reformation'. The same, sadly, cannot always be said of the churches in the UK.
So, rest assured, you will be welcomed at a Communion service in the Cathedral.
Very often, anyone - of any denomination - is also welcome to walk up to the altar rail, keeping their hands in their laps, and maybe head bowed, receive a blessing rather than Communion.
Blessings on every peregrino.
Buen camino!
 
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