On the Inside: Spanish Immersion in GIF Form

When I walked into the church, I looked around at the stained glass and unfamiliar surroundings. My Catholic church does not look as traditional as this church, but this is a beautiful place! It's full of life and, once Mass began, it was quite full of people. Truth be told, every pew was full...except for ours. I guess they could tell we were new.

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I have a lot of experience in classrooms learning Spanish, but there are many, many words I do NOT know. This was made clear as soon as I opened the Order of the Mass.

My husband and I brought our Magnificat, so we had the readings with us. I tried to read along in English as I listened to them in Spanish, to try to reinforce my understanding. When the homily came around, the priest spoke quickly at first, but I soon realized he was repeating a lot. He started to make his point and spoke very slowly, word-by-word. As he did this, I started to understand his whole "point" of the homily.

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Then he sped up.

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