Standing through Mass

Arriving late for 6PM Mass, I decided to stay at the back and stand. The church for once was packed, due probably to the clocks going forward. Not sitting makes a difference. Being hungry may have contributed, but I have been hungry at morning mass previously. Sitting is a comfortable physical position; the body takes it easy, so does the mind. With no pew to rest on, the back of legs took the strain when kneeling through the Eucharistic celebration.

The russian dissident, Solzeynitseyn, criticised the Catholics for sitting through Mass, part of the decadence of the West. He may have been right.