Travel Dates: Sep. 2023
์ฌํ์ง์์ ์๋ฒฝ ๋ฏธ์ฌ์ ์ฐธ์ฌํด๋ณด์ ์ ์ด ์๋์?
Have you ever attended an early morning Mass while traveling?
๊ธ์์ผ ์ ๋ , ๋น(Vienna)์ ๋์ฐฉํ์๋ง์ ์ง์ ํ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋ฒผ์ด ์ฐ์ฑ ์ ๋์ฐ๋ค. ํ๊ตญ์์ ์ค์คํธ๋ฆฌ์๊น์ง๋ ์ฝ 12์๊ฐ์ ๋นํ ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ. ์ฅ์๊ฐ ๋นํ์ผ๋ก ํผ๋กํ ๋ชธ์ ํ์ด์ฃผ๊ธฐ์ ์ฐ์ฑ ๋งํผ ์ข์ ์ ํ๋ ์์ ๊ฒ์ด๋ค. ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ํ๊ตญ๊ณผ๋ ์ฌ๋ญ ๋ค๋ฅธ ์ ๋ฝ์ ๋ณด๋๋ธ๋ก ์๋ฅผ ๊ฑธ์ผ๋ฉฐ, ์๋ค๋ฅธ ๊ฑด์ถ๋ฌผ๋ค์ ์ ์ ๋ก ๋๊ธธ์ด ๋ฟ์๋ค. ๊ทธ ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ์๋ ๋น์๋ ์ค์ฌ๊ฐ์ ๊ตฌ์๊ฐ์ง๋ผ๋ ๊ฒ์ ์๋ ค ์ฃผ๋ฏ์ด, ์ ์ ํ์ง์ธ๋ค๊ณผ ์ฌํ์๋ค์ด ์ ๋ง๋ค ์ผ๊ตด ๊ฐ๋ ์์์ ๋ค ์ฑ, ๋ค๋ฌ ๋ชฉ์๋ฆฌ๋ก ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋๋๊ณ ์์๋ค. ๊ทธ ๋ถ์๊ธฐ์ ๋๋ ๋ชจ๋ฅด๊ฒ ๋ฐ๊ฑธ์์ด ๊ฐ๋ฒผ์์ก๊ณ , ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ ์ ์ฒด๋ฅผ ์ฒ์ฒํ ๋๋ฌ๋ณด๋ฉฐ ์ ๋ฝ์ ์ ์ทจ์ ํ ๋ป ์ ์ด ๋ค์๋ค.
โ์, ์ ๋ฝ์ด๊ตฌ๋.โ
We arrived in Vienna on a Friday evening. After checking into our hotel, we went out for a light walk to shake off the fatigue of the long flight from Korea โ about 12 hours in the air. There’s nothing quite like a walk to stretch your legs and awaken your senses after such a journey. While we strolled along the somewhat different European cobblestone streets, the unique architecture surrounding us kept catching our eyes. When I turned my head, the atmosphere made it clear we were in Vienna’s old town โ young locals and fellow travelers alike were chatting with lively voices and joyful expressions. Caught up in that energy, my own steps grew a little lighter. We took our time soaking in the city’s charm, allowing the European ambiance fully wash over us.
“Ah, this is Europe.”
๊ทธ๋ ๊ฒ ์ฒซ๋ ๋ฐค, ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ์์๋ก ๋์์ ๋ฐ๋ปํ ์ค์๋ฅผ ํ๊ณ ๋ ๊น์ ์ ์ ๋ค์๋ค. ์ค์คํธ๋ฆฌ์๋ฅผ ์จ์ ํ ๋๋ผ๊ณ ์ถ์๋ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์ ์ฌํ ๋ชฉ์ ์ ๋ถํฉํ๋, ์ฐธ ์ข์ ์์์ด์๋ค. ๋จ์ ์ ์ ๋๋ถ์ธ์ง, ์์๋ณด๋ค ์ผ์ฐ ์ผ์ด๋ฌ๊ธฐ์ ๊ฐ๋จํ ์์นจ์ ์ฑ๊ฒจ ๋จน๊ณ ๋ค์ ์ฐ์ฑ ์ ๋์๊ธฐ๋ก ํ๋ค. ์กฐ์ฉํ ๊ณจ๋ชฉ์ ๊ฑท๋ ์ค, ์ด๋๊ฐ์์ ๋ค๋ ค์ค๋ ์๋ฒฝ ์ฑ๋น์ ์ข ์๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ๊ท๋ฅผ ์ฌ๋ก ์ก์๋ค. ๋ง์น ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋ถ๋ฅด๋ ๋ฏํ ์ธ๋ฆผ์ฒ๋ผ.
That night, back at the hotel, we took a warm shower and fell into a deep sleep. It was the perfect beginning to a journey that we hoped would allow us fully experience Austria. I guess we slept really well, because we woke up earlier than expected. So we decided to have a quick breakfast and go for a walk through the still-sleeping city. As we wandered through the quiet streets, the distant sound of bells suddenly caught our ears. It felt like a gentle calling.
๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ์ ๋ ์ ๋ ์ ๋ถ์ ์์ด ๋ฌด์ํ ์ ๋๋ก ๊ณ ์ํ๊ณ , ์ฌ๋๋ค๋ก ๊ฐ๋ํ๋ ๊ณต๊ฐ์ด ์ธ์ ๊ทธ๋ฌ๋๋ ๋ฏ ํ ๋น์ด ์์๋ค. ๊ทธ ํํ๋ก์ด ๋ถ์๊ธฐ ์์์ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ์ํ ํ ๋์ฑ๋น(Stephansdom)์ผ๋ก ํฅํ๊ฒ ๋์๋ค. ๊ด๊ด๊ฐ๋, ํ์ง์ธ๋ ๊ฑฐ์ ์๋ ์๋ฒฝ ์๊ฐ. ์ผ๋ถ๋ฌ ์๊ฐ์ ๋ง์ถ ๊ฒ๋ ์๋๋ฐ, ๋ง ์์ํ๋ ค๋ ๋ฏธ์ฌ์ ์ฐ์ฐํ ์ฐธ์ฌํ ์ ์์๋ค. ์ฒ์์ ๋ฉ์ฐ์ด ๋ฐ๋ผ๋ณด๋ค๊ฐ, ์ด๋์ ์กฐ์ฌ์ค๋ฝ๊ฒ ์์ผ๋ก ๋ค์ด๊ฐ ํ ๊ฑธ์ ํ ๊ฑธ์ ๋ฏธ์ฌ์ ๋ค๊ฐ์๊ณ ์๋ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ๊ฒฌํ๋ค. ๋ ์ผ์ด๋ก ์งํ๋๋ ๋ฏธ์ฌ์์ง๋ง, ์ธ์ด๋ ์ ํ ๋ฌธ์ ๊ฐ ๋์ง ์์๋ค. ์์์ ์ฐจ๋ถํ๊ณ ๊ฒฝ๊ฑดํ์ผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด์ฉ์ง ๋ฐ๋ปํ๋ค. ๋ชจ๋ ๋ด์ฉ์ ์ดํดํ์ง๋ ๋ชปํ์ง๋ง, ๊ทธ์ ๊ทธ ์๋ฆฌ์ ํจ๊ป ์๋ค๋ ๊ฒ๋ง์ผ๋ก๋ ์ถฉ๋ถํ๋ค.
The energetic crowds from the previous evening had vanished, leaving behind a serene silence. Guided by that peacefulness and the sound of bells, we found ourselves walking toward St. Stephenโs Cathedral (Stephansdom) without knowing it. We hadn’t planned to, but we happened to arrive just as an early morning Mass was about to begin. At first, we stood back, watching from a distance. But gradually, almost without realizing it, we moved closer. Eventually stepping quietly inside and becoming part of the service. The Mass was conducted in German, a language we couldn’t fully understand. But that didn’t matter. The process was calm, reverent, and somehow very warm. Even without grasping every word, I thought it would be meaningful just being present in that place.

์์์น ๋ชปํ ์ด ๊ฒฝํ์, ์ค๋ก์ง ์ฌํ์์๋ง ๋๋ ์ ์๋ ์์คํ ํ์ด์ธ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์๋ค. ๋ฌด์๋ณด๋ค, ์ด ์ฅ์์์ ์ฃผ๋ ์์ด์ ํจ๊ป ๋๋ ์ ์์ด์ ๊ฐ์ฌํ๋ค. ์ด๋ง์ ์ฌํ์ฝ๋๊ฐ ๋ง์์ผ ํ๋ค ์๊ฐํ๊ธฐ ๋๋ฌธ์ด๋ค. ๋๊ตฐ๊ฐ๋ ๋ ์๊ฒ ๋ค๊ณ ํ๊ฑฐ๋, ๋ค๋ฅธ ๊ณณ์ ๊ฐ๊ฒ ๋ค๊ฑฐ๋ ํ ์๋ ์์ผ๋ ๋ง์ด๋ค. ์ฐ๋ฆฐ ๊ทธ๋ฐ ๊ฒ์ด ์์ด ์์ฐ์ค๋ ํจ๊ป ํ๋ ๋์ ์ด ์ผ๋ง๋ ์์คํ์ง ์๊ณ ์๋ค. ๋ฏธ๋์ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์๊ฒ ์ถ์ต์ ํ๊ณผ ๋ด๊ณต์ผ๋ก ์๋ก์๊ฒ ๋จ๋จํด์ง๋ ๊ณผ์ ์ธ ๊ฒ์ ์ด๋ฏธ ์๊ธฐ ๋๋ฌธ์ด๋ค. ์ค๋์ ํน๋ณํ ๊ฒฝํ์ ๊ฐ๋ฅํ๊ฒ ํด์ค ์์น์ ํธํ ์ ์์ฝํ ์ฌ๋ฆฌ๋ฒ์๊ฒ ์์ผ ๊ณ ๋ง์์ด ๋ํด์ง๋ค.
This unexpected experience felt like a precious kind of luck that can only happen while you’re traveling. More than anything, I was grateful that we could share the grace of this place together. I believe it’s important that we’re in sync when we travelโbecause someone could’ve easily chosen to sleep in or go somewhere else. But we know how valuable it is to move together naturally without needing to adjust to one another. We already understand that these shared moments are shaping us, making us stronger for the futureโboth as individuals and as a team, through the power of memories and everything we’ve been through. And on top of that, today’s memorable experience made me feel even more grateful to Oliver for choosing this hotel in such a perfect location.
๋ฏธ์ฌ๋ฅผ ๋ง์น๊ณ ๋ฐ์ผ๋ก ๋์ค๋, ํ๊ฒฐ ๋ง์์ง ๋ง์๊ณผ ์๋ก์์ง ๊ธฐ๋ถ์ด ๋ค์๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ ๊ฒ ์กฐ์ฉํ ๊ณจ๋ชฉ๊ธธ์ ๊ฑท๋ค ๋ณด๋, ์ฑ ํผํฐ ์ฑ๋น(Peterskirche)์ด ๋์์ ๋ํ๋ฌ๋ค. ์ ์ฅํ์ง๋ง ๋ด๋ฐฑํ๊ณ ๋จ๋ํ ๋๋์ ์ํ ํ ๋์ฑ๋น๊ณผ๋ ๋ ๋ค๋ฅธ ๋ถ์๊ธฐ์ ์ธ๊ด์ด์๊ณ , ์ฐ๋ฆฐ ๋ง์น ์ฝ์์ด๋ ํ ๋ฏ ์๋ฌด ๋ง ์์ด ์กฐ์ฉํ ์ฑ๋น ์์ผ๋ก ๋ค์ด์ฐ๋ค. ์ธ๊ด๋ ์ธ์ ๊น์์ง๋ง, ๋ด๋ถ๋ ๋๋์ฑ ์๋ฆ๋ค์ ๋ค. ์ํ ํ ๋์ฑ๋น๊ณผ๋ ์ ํ ๋ค๋ฅธ ๋ถ์๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์ง๋ ๊ณต๊ฐ์์ ๋ ํ ๋ฒ ๊น์ ์ธ์์ ๋ฐ์๋ค. ๋น์ ๊ตฌ์๊ฐ์ง ์ค์ฌ์์ ๋ ์ฑ๋น๋ง ๋๋ฌ๋ณด์์ ๋ฟ์ธ๋ฐ, ์ด๊ฒ๋ง์ผ๋ก๋ ์์ผ๋ก ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ์ค์คํธ๋ฆฌ์์์ ๋ง์ฃผํ๊ฒ ๋ ์๋ง์ ๊ฒฝํ๋ค์ ์ข์ ์์๊ฐ ๋์ด์ค ๋ฏ ํ๋ค.
After the Mass, we stepped outside, our hearts feeling clearer, our minds refreshed. We continued walking through the quiet alleys, and soon, St. Peterโs Church (Peterskirche) came into view. With a different exterior and atmosphere from St. Stephenโs, it drew us in. Without a word, we instinctively entered. Its interior was beautiful and left a deep impression on us, distinct from what we’d seen at St. Stephenโs, yet equally powerful. Though we had only visited two places in the center of Vienna’s old town, we felt like a preview of the many meaningful experiences waiting for us in Austria.
์ ๋ฝ ์ฌํ์์ ์ฑ๋น๊ณผ ์์ฐ์ ๋นผ๋๊ณ ์๊ธฐ ํ ์ ์๋ค. ๊ทธ ๋งํผ ํต์ฌ ์์์ด๋ค. ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์ ์ฌํ ์๊ธฐ๋ ์์ฐํ ์ด๋ก์ ์ฌ๋ฆ๋, ๋ ๋ฎ์ธ ๊ฒจ์ธ์ ํฌ๋ฆฌ์ค๋ง์ค๋ ์๋ ๊ทธ ์ฌ์ด์์ง๋ง, ๊ทธ๋ผ์๋ ๋ถ๊ตฌํ๊ณ ์ด ์ฌ์ ์ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ง์ ์ฌํ์ผ๋ก ์ถฉ๋ถํ ํน๋ณํ๋ค. ์ด์ ๋ง ์์๋ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์ ์ค์คํธ๋ฆฌ์ ์ฌํ, ์๋ฒฝ ๋ฏธ์ฌ์ฒ๋ผ, ์์ผ๋ก์ ๋ ๋ค ๋ํ ๋ป๋ฐ์ ๊ฐ๋, ์ค๋ ์, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๊ธฐ๋๊ฐ์ผ๋ก ๊ฐ๋ํ๋ค.
In Europe, cathedrals and nature are essential highlights of any journey. Though we traveled in a season that was neither the lush green of summer nor the snowy charm of Christmas, this trip already felt specialโsomething uniquely our own. Our journey through Austria has only just begun, and like this early morning Mass, the days ahead feel full of unexpected beauty, quitet excitement, and a sense of anticipation.







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