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Originally Posted by rousseau
I think it's easier to wander in and appreciate the architecture when you're not Catholic, as you're at a remove. I enjoy browsing around big old churches and cathedrals in South America and Europe, and the masses themselves seem so impersonal and institutional that they don't bother me if I happen upon a service in progress (respectively looking on from the back).
It's those smaller, more intimate proceedings in the Protestant tradition that give me the willies...
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And when you're older. I lived near the Oratory for several years in my 20s, I could have walked in then or now and maybe I wouldn't see it the same way.
As for those smaller congregations... both my nephew and niece have married into them. I found myself longing for the larger, more anonymous venues.