"Cheryl" > wrote in message
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> I am no longer a practicing Catholic, but I can remember when a lot of the
> mass was in Latin. I have no idea if that is continued these days. Shame
> if it is.

My friend had trouble finding a church that would marry her as she didn't
attend church and had a child out of wedlock. She finally found one to do
it but they did a Latin mass followed by a regular one and then the service.
We were all looking forward to the reception afterwards as her husband is a
chef. All we could think about was the food and I didn't think that the
service would ever get over.

Odd in remembering it, the only thing I can remember of the food was
something on a Ritz cracker with a very thin piece of cucumber cut in a
decorative fashion. I can't even remember anything else on it or anything
else about the reception except that it was at somebody's home (his mom's?)
in Sahale which is a fancy gated community.

I do remember the wedding though and how I thought we'd never get through
it. My friend was stuck kneeling at the altar for what seemed like forever.
She had a lace dress on and high heels and she was nervous. Her feet kept
shaking and getting caught in the lace. So I kept fixating on that and the
never ending masses.

Time frame on that though was late 1970's.

I have gone to church with my inlaws many times and aside from a few words
here and there, nothing was in Latin.