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Ship of Fools: Sankt Marienkirche, Grundhof, Germany

The Mystery WorshipperThe Mystery Worshipper Shipmate
edited May 2019 in The Mystery Worshipper

imageShip of Fools: Sankt Marienkirche, Grundhof, Germany

‘We’ll be back!’ to this gem of a church, exclaimed our Mystery Worshipper

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  • Box PewBox Pew Shipmate
    edited May 2019
    I guess Teutonic Knight is a fluent German speaker as well as a knight of the realm. If, as I assume, this service was entirely in German I am not sure how useful or interesting a report this is to me, who speaks hardly a word of that language.

    I should perhaps say I am, I hope, no Little-Englander, having attended Catholic masses in Czech, Korean, Tagalog, Spanish and several in French whilst being only rustily fluent in the last of these languages. However, the wonder of the Catholic mass - and of Anglicans who use Common Worship - is that the format and texts are so closely aligned that one knows what is being said or sung right through the service apart from the readings. One can follow in ones head, in one's own language (mine is UK English).

    I once went to a Danish Lutheran service that was the equivalent of Morning Prayer in a suburb of Copenhagen. I had no idea what was going on, so closed my eyes and meditated. Afterwards at the door the jovial Minister - wearing a spectacular starched collar of the 17th century sort - greeted me warmly in English. He had worked out that I was a foreigner, and which sort. A friendly welcome, but I thought honesty was the best policy and told him I was so bemused by the service I had tuned out and meditated, so didnt think I had simply fallen asleep. 'How marvellous' he said, 'you must come again'.
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