While away from my diocese I encouraged three people to come to Mass with me: one had barely been inside a Church before, one had stopped going to Mass in his teens, and one was a Mass-goer but not a Catholic. Not a word was said about the Gospel. Instead the priest made a rather passionate appeal for Gift Aid subscriptions. As we all climbed back into the car we each repeated in a deep, slow, loud voice, “sixty thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine pounds… sixty thousand…