Another Parisian parish for my project, it is, of course, on the opposite side of Paris from my hotel, but a relatively quick trip by Metro (my hot tip for travelers—don’t bother with surface transport in Paris. Metro is always faster, often by disconcerting amounts). In the morning, they had a lauds service before the Mass, and then the Mass itself, celebrated from the chapel altar, although the number of people present was such that it would have made more sense, i think, to have celebrated from the main altar. One thing I saw that really caught my attention was that when the baskets were passed for the collection, each basket had a touchscreen credit card reader for those parishioners who wanted to pay by credit card.
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