Terço

Tonight is a horrible, freezing cold, rainy night, but we had an excellent Churrasco at Bernardo's grandparents house. But before dinner me, Nana, Bernardo, Paulo and Lala went to the house of one of their relatives for a Catholic ritual called "Terço". My family here is Catholic as is most of Brazil. There were about 20 family members there. We all sat together in kind of a circle and one by one people passed around the rosary beads and said prayers. I couldn't understand what they were saying but it was definitely important. There were all kinds of emotions from laughing to crying all at the same time. It was very cool.