The usual thing in Portugal is to have Mass times posted inside the church, making them useless when it is locked. By and by a priest turned up and said, “Cinco”, holding up a handful of digits..

“As we were leaving the college chapel after Evensong, an elderly man who had been in the year below me said doubtfully: “Did they always have that bit about the Catholic Church?” He was referring to the Apostles’ Creed, which in the Prayer Book of 1662 does indeed assert belief in “the Holy Ghost; the holy Catholick Church” and so on. Spelling it with a “k” doesn’t in itself make any difference.

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