it clearly is very important for you to prevail here. there is no misimpression. the DC area closest to the city, which includes parishes in both the Arlington and Washington dioceses, where the majority hispanic population live, has spanish masses. you are entitled to whatever legalistic interpretation of what constitutes the DC metro area, and what percentage of churches there offer spanish masses. the point is, the DC area has a decent sized spanish population and the churches in those areas where they live offer masses in spanish.
Dear xsmommy,
"it clearly is very important for you to prevail here. there is no misimpression."
I think that this is what is called "projection."
I'm not the one who said, "i am right and you are wrong." * chuckle *
You stated something that was quite untrue. So that folks reading this thread don't come to a misimpression of the Washington region, or the Catholic Church in the Washington region, I offered the information that there are many parishes within the Washington, DC area that do not offer Spanish-language Masses.
But, to continue to defend that xsmommy is right and sitetest is wrong, you chose to defy the actual data, to deny reality. Talk about a need to be right.
Now you call the actual definition of the Washington area "legalistic." LOL. I gave you your choice of definitions of "the DC area," including INSIDE the city of Washington, DC, itself.
The only way that you can continue to assert "i am right and you are wrong," is to create the "xsmommy definition of the DC area," which is, "all the parishes in the Archdiocese of Washington and the Diocese of Arlington that have Spanish-language Masses." That's the ticket! LOL.
"the DC area closest to the city, which includes parishes in both the Arlington and Washington dioceses, where the majority hispanic population live, has spanish masses."
Certainly the DC area has Spanish-language Masses. If you had bothered to read my posts, the numbers are actually cited. A significant minority of parishes in the area, however one might define it, have Spanish-language Masses.
But that isn't what you said, now is it? And that isn't the statement that I corrected, is it? What you said, and what I responded to, was:
"...every church in the DC area has at least one spanish mass, usually two."
That isn't true. Not by half.
sitetest