The Rev. Scot McComas of St. Martin-in-the-Fields said Mass in French on Pentecost this year, a new experience for the Keller/Southlake congregation.
“I think it’s a way to show that the church or the diocese thinks outside the box. It connects people to when they studied French years ago. It allows us to connect with a larger church body, our convocation of Europe is based in Paris, etc. The church of Burundi, Rawanda speak French,” McComas said.
He also pointed out that the largest diocese of The Episcopal Church is the diocese of Haiti, which speaks French.
Former Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori often said Mass in the three languages most commonly spoken in The Episcopal Church:English, Spanish, and French.
The Episcopal Church has 110 dioceses in the United States, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Haiti, Honduras, Puerto Rico, Taiwan, Venezuela and the Virgin Islands. The Convocation of Episcopal Churches in Europeand the Navajoland Area Mission are jurisdictions similar to a diocese.
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