Paul Graham is right (“Pentecostal drift”, 25 January): simply adapting the English Catholic liturgical style is not really going to address the drift of parishioners to Pentecostal churches.As he notes, the charismatic renewal movement had an opportunity to rejuvenate our parishes and bring joy back into worship: however, in Britain this opportunity seems to have been missed. It would be worth asking why this was so, whereas in other countries such as Brazil or even France and Italy, a different story could be told.I think it is not attributable to the British “stiff upper lip” mentality, so much as a refusal by the comfortable clerical establishment to countenance any “rocking of the boat”, and at the same time a willingness by most charismatics to be