Today's Mass started with an initial confusion and led to further confusion.

If you want to know how it feels to be lost in a chatroom, try to be in a discord channel where people are speaking a language that is completely alien to you. Haha. I mean, this should be one of the most confusing experience to have. At least, that's what I thought until I experienced a similar situation this morning during Sunday mass Celebration.

In case you don't know, I'm an Igbo, living in Yoruba land. These two tribes are among the top tribes in Nigeria. We all are Nigerians but so many things are also different about each of these tribes. The language, for one, is so so so different. I can't overemphasize this. Lol.

It happened that I joined a new parish 3 weeks ago. We Catholics have the same order of mass so, anyone that knows these will always know when to stand, sit, kneel or genuflect during mass celebrations. We also have a pattern in Nigeria where we celebrate mass with Latin on some Sundays and also celebrate with the native language of each tribe on some Sundays.

What I didn't know is that today's mass would be celebrated in Yoruba language. In my former Parish, all the priests were foreigners (one from Germany and three from neighbouring African countries). They don't understand Yoruba so, all their mass Celebration was either in English or a mix of Latin and English on selected days.

This new Parish I joined happened to have an abundance of native Yoruba priests. Haha. You can imagine how confused I was when the sign of the cross at the beginning of today's mass was done in Yoruba.

I was like; what's going on? Haha.

Well, that in itself was just my initial confusion. This initial confusion advanced to further confusion when most of the activities like Bible reading, prayers and recitation of hymns were also done in Yoruba.

Goodness me!

Thankfully, I usually have a pattern that involves checking all the readings for the day before going to church. That was what helped in lessening the confusion. I used my own Bible (English Bible) to read along during all Bible readings. Also, the homily was given in English and the announcement was given in both Yoruba and English.

As I'm writing about this momentous experience, I'm struggling to keep a straight face to avoid wetting my keyboard. You know, it's not so hard to cry from laughing. Lol. My tummy hurts 😂.

It was still a Sublime experience and it felt good to hear those Yoruba lines. It's a pity that I didn't catch any phrase.

Thanks For Not Missing Any Full-stop Or Comma

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