Is this allowed? Mass in another language

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Many parishes with a large Hispanic community have bilingual missals that will help you follow the Mass. If you have the chance to attend a Vietnamese Mass, where most of the prayers are chanted in a pentatonic tone, you will find it very prayerful even if you don’t understand a word of it.
 
Cavaille-Coll said:
Many parishes with a large Hispanic community have bilingual missals that will help you follow the Mass. If you have the chance to attend a Vietnamese Mass, where most of the prayers are chanted in a pentatonic tone, you will find it very prayerful even if you don’t understand a word of it.
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my old church did and i miss it–up here in PENNA—there is such an animosity towards hispanics and i just got my head handed to me for requesting a spanish hymn at my spanish CCD FIRST HOLY COMMUNION MASS!😦
 
keepingfaith4 said:
my old church did and i miss it–up here in PENNA—there is such an animosity towards Hispanics and I just got my head handed to me for requesting a Spanish hymn at my Spanish CCD FIRST HOLY COMMUNION MASS!😦
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So sorry this happened to you. Who did you speak with?
We just had a bilingual mass yesterday because our retired Hispanic Priest ,who usually does a Spanish speaking mass at 1.30 pm , is on holiday. He usually has over 300 attend. Being from a military family where we are usually from a very small parish I am used to a bi-lingual mass.
I do understand - as an immigrant myself ( & from a family who moves alot to new countries)- however ,the notion that some people feel that when you come to a new country to live you should learn their language and not expect any special accommodations for your own language. I think immigrants could help their cause greatly by making this one really very simple effort - to learn the language of their new home. I think that in your case when it is a special mass for you to ask for one hymn in Spanish is a small request that ought to be granted, however I see in our parish how divisive it is to have Spanish masses and honestly also very selectively particular to one group.
We are a very multi national parish ( in the heartland) but the only accommodation is for the Hispanic community because of the retired priest. I have been on a New Evangelisation committee to try out reach and one of the places we naturally went to to try out reach was the Hispanic community. I have tried to get them involved in retreats and on our committee to no avail BUT our Indian, African and other immigrant members make no special requests and are fully involved. Just MHO.
 
Maryann_C said:
So sorry this happened to you. Who did you speak with?
We just had a bilingual mass yesterday because our retired Hispanic Priest ,who usually does a Spanish speaking mass at 1.30 pm , is on holiday. He usually has over 300 attend. Being from a military family where we are usually from a very small parish I am used to a bi-lingual mass.
I do understand - as an immigrant myself ( & from a family who moves alot to new countries)- however ,the notion that some people feel that when you come to a new country to live you should learn their language and not expect any special accommodations for your own language. I think immigrants could help their cause greatly by making this one really very simple effort - to learn the language of their new home. I think that in your case when it is a special mass for you to ask for one hymn in Spanish is a small request that ought to be granted, however I see in our parish how divisive it is to have Spanish masses and honestly also very selectively particular to one group.
We are a very multi national parish ( in the heartland) but the only accommodation is for the Hispanic community because of the retired priest. I have been on a New Evangelisation committee to try out reach and one of the places we naturally went to to try out reach was the Hispanic community. I have tried to get them involved in retreats and on our committee to no avail BUT our Indian, African and other immigrant members make no special requests and are fully involved. Just MHO.
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thank you for your response.i also belonged to a bilingual church community.My feelings on this one time a year FIRST HOLY COMMUNION mass is to honor the culture of the families that have been faithfully sending their children to CCD all year and one hymn in spanish should not be as offensive to the dre(who uses every opportunity to make a snide anti latino remark)
this lack of support for other cultures goes against my idea of being catholic(THE WORD ITSELF MEANS UNIVERSAL)
btw–up here the dre wields as much power as the pastor:confused:

the music director was supportive but he was squelched too.This area has a rapidly growing hispanic community and are being brought into non catholic churches because they seem to be more willing to include their culture into their services.Now i am beginning to understand why catholicism is rapidly declining in this area as those that are running the parishes are unreceptive to newcomers no matter what their background or ethnic group but extremely receptive to the local big money contributing white collar criminals( F.B.I.investigations and arrests here weekly)

sorry for the length–am climbing off my soapbox:)
 
I don’t know about that. But you’d probably be counted as an immigrant. 🙂
 
Not all places in the U.S. have such an attitude. We have a huge Hispanic population here and many parishes offer Spanish Mass and sacraments. There are even some parishes that only offer Spanish. In a couple of weeks my goddaughter is getting baptized in a Spanish Mass along with several other Hispanic children. The preparation classes are in Spanish too.
 
Cavaille-Coll said:
Many parishes with a large Hispanic community have bilingual missals that will help you follow the Mass. If you have the chance to attend a Vietnamese Mass, where most of the prayers are chanted in a pentatonic tone, you will find it very prayerful even if you don’t understand a word of it.
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I admit I was doing this for rather selfish reasons. I had a horrible abuse happen on that day and so I usually will just lock myself in my home and either drink or just try to sleep the day away. I was out of the Church for 9 years so I’m trying to figure out how to meet my Sunday obligation, try something positive, and not be overwhelmed. My home parish is doing something beautiful for mothers and I’m glad they are–it’s very nice and I know that most people will really find that inspiring–it just causes me pain (at least for now). I wish they had a “healing mass for those who hurt on Mother’s Day” it would be well-attended I’m sure.

But if I can experience another culture that is right in the community where I live, go to a church I’ve never seen before, and not be able to understand the homily–I will be OK. They can talk on and on about mothers and I can sit there and pray my rosary or read my devotional book.

Sometimes when I feel like I’m being a pain, God sends me hugs like all these wonderful comments and affirmations that say, “Hey don’t worry about it, you are meeting your Sunday obligation” and who knows, maybe eventually that pain will heal and it won’t be such an aching hurt.

Thanks for everyone’s comments I know I can always count on this site for good advice and feedback. Next week, May 20th, is my son’s death anniversary–he’s been gone 16 years. I’m having Mass said for him at 11 am so I will be there. So I do try to push myself out of my comfort zone but two weeks in a row is a bit overwhelming for me (I also just finalized a divorce less than a month ago) so I’m taking things slowly and God is embracing me along the way.

Hugs and best wishes,
I hope you all have a wonderful Mother’s Day,

Lorrie
 
How silly. I’m sure there are some with that attitude here but I’ve never heard them. I think most know that our Church would be shrinking if it weren’t for Hispanic Catholics.
 
I think this situation was like that even back in the 50’s when we lived there in London. Even having just a sermon and a closing hymn in Polish was too much for the non-Poles. I can only imagine what the situation is now when there is no commonness with the languages.
anp1215 said:
How silly. I’m sure there are some with that attitude here but I’ve never heard them. I think most know that our Church would be shrinking if it weren’t for Hispanic Catholics.
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Hard to disagree with you there.
 
keepingfaith4 said:
thank you for your response.i also belonged to a bilingual church community.My feelings on this one time a year FIRST HOLY COMMUNION mass is to honor the culture of the families that have been faithfully sending their children to CCD all year and one hymn in spanish should not be as offensive to the dre(who uses every opportunity to make a snide anti latino remark)
this lack of support for other cultures goes against my idea of being catholic(THE WORD ITSELF MEANS UNIVERSAL)
btw–up here the dre wields as much power as the pastor:confused:

the music director was supportive but he was squelched too.This area has a rapidly growing hispanic community and are being brought into non catholic churches because they seem to be more willing to include their culture into their services.Now i am beginning to understand why catholicism is rapidly declining in this area as those that are running the parishes are unreceptive to newcomers no matter what their background or ethnic group but extremely receptive to the local big money contributing white collar criminals( F.B.I.investigations and arrests here weekly)

sorry for the length–am climbing off my soapbox:)
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Agreed. I think it sounds like something you should take to your priest and pray that he gets a spine and if not go to the Bishop- my understanding is that this is the way it should be done. Either way i pray it is a beautiful and holy day for you and all the families.
 
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