A Mass to celebrate the First World War dead has often become the focus of other causes, as this paper has reported At first glance, the idea of a Mass for men sounds deeply regressive but it has drawn men from across the generations since it began in 1919. At this time, the clergy at St Chad’s Cathedral, Birmingham, decided to host a Mass for the local young men (and particularly those of the Catholic Young Men’s Society) who had died in the First World War. The Easter Monday service was intended to provide some comfort for those who had lost friends, brothers or sons during the slaughter on the Western Front. Soon, the service became established as an annual event, a rare occasion on which the pews would fill with an entirely male congregation in order to remember, and to p