You reported (News from Britain and Ireland, 16 May) the opposition of church reform groups to the trend towards “mega-parishes”. Here, we’re well used to mega-parishes. Our diocese, Carcassonne and Narbonne, is divided into 14 mega-parishes. Our parish consists of 82 churches served by two priests; three churches have a Mass every Sunday, 54 have Mass every three months, while the remaining 25 churches have a Mass celebrated in them once a year, if they are lucky.The only churches which have the kind of community I remember from parishes in the UK are those three in which Mass is celebrated weekly. As for the rest, there is commitment and goodwill among the congregants but little sense of Christian community because the church stays closed unless the priest is there. We