I spent this Easter here in New Orleans. I was thinking of going to the Bahamas but at the end the trip did not work out the way I thought it would. Some friends of mine came all the way from Honduras and I stayed to attend them and to show them around. In Honduras most of the people are very religious, or at least pretend to be. I have never missed a going to church on Easter. We were walking in the quarter and my friends asked me where we could go to church on Thursday and at what time. So I made them walk with me to the St. Louis Cathedral in the French Quarter and we looked up the schedule outside St. Louis Cathedral to see if there were any masses going on at that time. We were fortunate to catch the Holy Thursday mass. I coincidently saw about 5 or 6 people from Loyola there with their families. This was a very different mass unlike what I was accustomed in Honduras. At the beginning the Bishop entered with the rest of the priests with several people dressed very elegantly following them. At the beginning I didn't know who they where but later I found out what they were doing in mass. After all these people entered the choir began chanting from a balcony above the main entrance, where the pipe organ and the rest of the instruments are located. They proceeded to light up incense in the altar and preparing to start mass. After the choir was finished with the chants they pulled up several chairs in front of the altar where the people that entered behind the priests and bishop sat. They were facing the people and I thought they were going to be baptized or receive confirmation or something of that sort.
             St. Louis Cathedral New Orleans, LA
             After all these happened finally mass began and then mass was fairly the same mass I am used to, the normal mass with a few special reading regarding Easter and Jesus. After we said the Holy Father and gave peace to each other. The people
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