Midnight masses in foreign languages to be served in Prague

Prague - Traditional midnight masses on Christmas Eve will be celebrated in tens of Catholic churches in Prague and in some of them in foreign languages, such as Italian, French and even Vietnamese today.

A programme of Czech Christmas music and carols starts in St Vitus Cathedral at Prague Castle, the presidential seat at 23:30.

It will be followed by a midnight mass to be celebrated by Prague Archbishop Dominik Duka, primate of the Czech Catholic Church. Spanish, English and Polish will be spoken there.

Bishop Vaclav Maly, former dissident, will celebrate a midnight mass in St Wenceslas Church in Prague-Smichov.

In some churches the "midnight mass" will actually take place a couple of hours earlier.

A mass in English and Spanish will be traditionally served in the monastery Church of St Thomas in the Lesser Town, near the Senate´s seat.

A German mass will be held in St John Nepomuk (Nepomucen) Church "Na Skalce" in Prague and an Italian sermon can be heard in the Church if Our lady Victories where the the Prague Infant Jesus, a wax statuette made in Spain in the 16th century, is displayed.

The French can go to the church of St Joseph in the Lesser Town to attend a mass in French.

Moreover, a Latin mass will be celebrated in St Havel Church in the Old Town.

Vietnamese believers can listen to a mass in their native tongue in a grand hall of the Olsanka Hotel in Prague-Zizkov tonight.

Author: CTK
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