This summer we’ve gone to many different churches throughout Germany, some Catholic and some Protestant. After our trip to Wittenberg, and seeing Luther’s church, I was able to see the differences in the two major religions in Germany. We were first able to participate in a Catholic Mass at the Cathedral in Cologne. The mass felt deeply religious and private, as a protestant, I felt like an outsider and even an intruder. The service felt more like a ceremony than what I was used to. At the protestant service I was actually surprised to find that much of the service was similar. The specifics of the service were different, but the overall feel of the service was the same. I was raised in a far more contemporary style of church services, and being in both of these types of services was far different than anything I was used to. One thing that I could tell from both services, was that the religious people here seem deeply devout.