Yin1 Fu4 ji2 Zi2 ji2 Sheng4 shen2 zhi1 ming2
Celebrating the Mandarin Mass this evening.
That means whatever time left remaining before 8.00 p.m. today, I shall have to psyche myself up once again to face a congregation that have accepted my presence and 'broken' Mandarin for the 9th Eucharistic celebration with them. Mandarin has never been my first language and the hanyu pinyin way to celebrate this Mass certainly restricts my usual capabilities and expression that I would put in for the English ones.
Nonetheless, these series of celebrations, among other occasions, e.g. weddings; funerals; baptisms, etc., have allowed myself to expand and grow with some measure of confidence in fulfiling my ministry of showing the face of God to the people.
Albeit, it has much room for improvement but already it is encouraging to see that the purpose and meaning of it all bring about goodness to all who come in touch with this spiritual reality.
One 'favourable' part of celebrating this particular Mass, though, is that I get to do it only once a month... *grin*
That means whatever time left remaining before 8.00 p.m. today, I shall have to psyche myself up once again to face a congregation that have accepted my presence and 'broken' Mandarin for the 9th Eucharistic celebration with them. Mandarin has never been my first language and the hanyu pinyin way to celebrate this Mass certainly restricts my usual capabilities and expression that I would put in for the English ones.
Nonetheless, these series of celebrations, among other occasions, e.g. weddings; funerals; baptisms, etc., have allowed myself to expand and grow with some measure of confidence in fulfiling my ministry of showing the face of God to the people.
Albeit, it has much room for improvement but already it is encouraging to see that the purpose and meaning of it all bring about goodness to all who come in touch with this spiritual reality.
One 'favourable' part of celebrating this particular Mass, though, is that I get to do it only once a month... *grin*
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