That was the same experience that I had, and the procession was very edifying seeing all the different nationalities but all having the same faith.
I recently stopped off at Gethsemane in KY, just in time for sext. I then to listen to the video presentation over at the bookstore. The brother spoke of the need for quiet in our world, and recely a read an amusing letter from Brother Lewis to a young girl, which made the point of the need of getting away from the din of our world to a place where it is quiet enough to think. The problem is, as Pascal points of, is that most of us hate nothing so mach as being a room by ourselves, alone. We are in constant need of distraction. One of the wrong things about liturgical reform is that even in church there is so much “noise.” I like musical, especially beautiful liturgical music, but ever so often I like to go to a “silent” mass, where one hears only the sound of the priests saying the sacred words. So much easier to listen, and we need to listen.