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Alan Burns

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Feedback from Glastonbury
« on: June 25, 2023, 11:15:21 PM »
Just heard that a Catholic priest offered Mass to a huge congregation of young people at 6am this morning.
And the same priest was up till 3am hearing confessions.
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Re: Feedback from Glastonbury
« Reply #1 on: June 26, 2023, 08:46:54 AM »
Just heard that a Catholic priest offered Mass to a huge congregation of young people at 6am this morning.
And the same priest was up till 3am hearing confessions.
There is still hope for the future  :)

Hope of what?

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Re: Feedback from Glastonbury
« Reply #2 on: June 26, 2023, 08:54:31 AM »
Just heard that a Catholic priest offered Mass to a huge congregation of young people at 6am this morning.

It's probably worth noting that's the first time in recent memory that the phrases 'Catholic priest' and 'young people' have been used together that haven't had an explicitly criminal implication, which I guess is an improvement?

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Because the story talks about it being offered, not about it being taken up?

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Re: Feedback from Glastonbury
« Reply #3 on: June 26, 2023, 09:43:42 AM »
Just heard that a Catholic priest offered Mass to a huge congregation of young people at 6am this morning.
Offered or accepted AB - and define a 'huge congregation' - or do you just mean the 200,000 people who were at Glastonbury, all of whom presumably would have been 'offered' this service, although I suspect the vast, vast majority would not have chosen to take up the offer.

AB - about 1% of the population are regular catholic mass attenders, so that would be about 2000 of the 200,000 people at Glastonbury (presuming they are demographically representative of the mass attending population - they won't be by the way). So presumably some of those 2000 may have chosen also to attend mass while at Glastonbury as it was on offer.

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Re: Feedback from Glastonbury
« Reply #4 on: June 26, 2023, 10:55:15 AM »
It was probably the only place to get alcohol at 6am
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