Natalia’s Reviews > The Mass in Slow Motion > Status Update

I’ve just asked one of the altar servers at my church whether our bells have names…I’ll be curious to know if they do!

“At High Mass, there is a great deal of ceremonial here, and a procession with candles and incense, and the sub-deacon turning himself into a sort of human reading-desk, so that the deacon can get a good look.”

“And sometimes, of course, the bishop sends round a letter that has to be read out in all the parish churches; at the beginning of Advent, for instance. Next Sunday, if you got your deserts, you would have eight or nine pages from the Bishop of Shrewsbury read out at Mass, and your breakfast would be further off than ever.”