over at Gregorian Rant about readings on Pentecost:
This past Sunday the Bible readings in my parish were done in about a dozen different languages, in an effort to underscore the idea that the apostles were given the gift of 'speaking in tongues' by the Holy Spirit. The only real problem is that they apparently forgot to announce before the mass that they would be doing that, so quite a few parishoners were left wondering what the heck was going on, including myself.
I, of course, attended the same Mass my brother did this past weekend. I heard part of the reading from Acts in Russian, German and French. While this was great for the Russians, Germans and French folk in the congregation, the Parthians, Medes, Elamites, and residents of Mesopotamia, Judea, Cappadocia, Pontus, Asia, Phrygia, Pamphylia, Egypt, Libya, Cretans and Arabians couldn't understand a word of it.
