From The Church Times-SUJATA BHATT’s poem “Search for my Tongue” is a meditation, written partly in Gujarati, about what it is like to have “two tongues in your mouth”. The conflict that it describes is likely to resonate with an increasing number of worshippers in the C of E, who are listening to services in English, a foreign tongue.
“Crying and hoping together towards God is something which is so strong and powerful,” the Assistant Curate at St Laurence’s, Catford, the Revd Hugo Adán-Fernández, reflects. He helps to lead a Hispanic mission: “It is a challenge to do that in a different language.”
One in eight people in the UK were born abroad, and eight per cent have a tongue other than English as their main language. So churches are increasingly investing in ways to ensure that language is not a barrier to worship for the souls in their care. At the same time, they are reflecting on how to balance this with the need for integration.
More here-
https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2017/2-june/features/features/maybe-it-doesn-t-sound-like-it-but-it-is-the-church-of-england
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