ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author refers to a few characteristics that impinge on the practice of worship. First, the attitude to time. At the risk of exaggeration, the author would say that the Latin American wears a watch because it is a modern habit to do so, and in order to know the time. Second, it is normal to express one's emotions openly, not only with words that describe them frankly, but also with gestures of the face and hands, tears, embraces and bodily movements. Third, it is an obvious fact, and therefore could easily be overlooked, that the language of all communication is Spanish, a language that is extraordinarily rich in resources to reach the mind and the heart by many paths. Fourth, modernity has come to Latin America. In the fifth place, the author says something about church buildings.
