What a splendid article by Adrian Chiles (“Confessions of a Mass tourist”, 25 April). I agree with every word except perhaps his assertion that it is the priest not the Mass that matters – for a Sunday Mass with the obligation to attend, perhaps the Mass matters more. In Fulham a few years ago, I used to go to Masses said by Fr Colin MacLean, evidently a holy man with an eccentric background – a convert to Christianity who had been a regular fighting colonel in a Scottish regiment, who while at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst had gone to a ballet performance and been so struck by it that he wrote and asked if he could do a swap with the Royal Ballet School. Refused, he took up ballet when still a priest and went on in retirement, with a company including handi
07 May 2015, The Tablet
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