Daily Mass is inevitably the first casualty when individual priests become responsible for several parishes (“Confessions of a Mass tourist”, 25 April). The same is true when parishes are without a designated priest for a prolonged period. “Supply” or “locum” priests are invariably considered to be necessary only for Sundays and holy days.Adrian Chiles’ welcome and much-needed article and ensuing letters in subsequent editions, on the importance of daily Mass in parishes, focus attention on the concept of vibrant eucharistic communities, rather than numbers of Sunday Mass-attenders, as the paramount criterion in the allocation of priests to parishes. Sadly, of late a pattern seems to have become established whereby little or no attention is paid t