This thread started off with his last day on the trip - one he spent in Mexico City. Thats’ why it has much of its content filled with observations he made while there. Search on “Randall Easter” and you will find other reports from his trip wherein he reports on helping local pastors and thanking God for their firm faith in the Lord. Much violence against churches in parts of Latin America. We have it very easy in this country.
AMEN! Last Sunday, at Mass, I was lamenting the rotten music and the folk guitar accompaniment, the various and asundry abuses of the GIRM (the official directions for the Mass) among other "miseries" I have to "endure". It dawned on me that I drove my healthy family in a climate controlled car to a comfortable church that has never been fire bombed, where no member has ever lost a relative because they were beheaded because they were a Christian, to a Mass said publicly...What a miserable whiner I am sometimes.