Today, I am facing the prospect of having my training suspended. On Sunday, Mozart’s requiem was broadcast on BBC2. I felt a great resonance with the performance as I watched it. It is a mass, but it was being performed in a secular setting, with no priest in sight. The performers were sat 2m apart from each other and there was no audience. This thing of great beauty, created with sacerdotal intent was now being used in a different way. It was still appreciated, the emptiness and bleakness of it added to its impact. Not to mention, it was much more commercially viable than a eucharist. Unmistakably, the Holy Spirit still moves through it. Even though it has had its priestly role stripped from it, God is still at work. I pray that whether I end up like a mass celebrated in a church or like a mass performed in an empty concert hall, God will continue to inhabit me, God will continue to work in me, God will continue to work through me.