modern Lublin

Lublin has changed a lot in the past 20 years.  Where there used to be soldiers in armored vehicles, there is now a McDonald's.  I'm not saying it's better--just different.  There was a main strip at least 8 blocks long of shops, restaurants, and bars.  Lublin has a population of about 400,000 and 100,000 of them are students at one of the 4 universities in the city. On Sunday morning we went to mass at a church built about 10 years ago.  I thought it was really beautiful  I prefer the modern churches.  I've been to mass twice now and each time less than half the congregation went up for communion.  At home, nearly everyone goes for communion every week.  Perhaps they take confession more seriously here.  When I asked my friend why she didn't go for communion, she said she had been rude to someone at work and had not been to confession yet this week.