As you would have heard , because St Mark’s Gospel is the shortest, it will be supplemented on Sundays during the Church’s cycle this ecclesiastical year  by the Eucharistic passages from St John.

The new cycle of the Church’s year is going to supplement the rather short Gospel of St Mark with extended commentary on the Eucharistic passages of St John.                 Although mind you it’s going to highlight the importance of the Eucharist even more than the prayer life of the Church does normally .

We’ve got to have some sympathy for our fellow Catholics here. Some ordinary Catholics don’t seem to think thousands of their fellow-Catholics, at present deprived of the Eucharist through the failure of the present method of providing it, really deserve It , otherwise they would be joining in the appeals to change things. Some priests – or actually about 150 round about this country-seem to feel the same . Well, they don’t say anything either. And we’ve asked them .

The lengthy emphasis we are promised on the Eucharistic passages from St John, however, must hit our bishops hardest of all.  They’ll have to concentrate really hard all week on the important things that they really have to worry about, despite this constant Sunday harping on the Eucharist and what Our Lord says about It  being such  a distraction .

If you think about it, it’s going to be really burdensome for them. Some of them might actually feel they should  listen to what the Pope has said about the extension of ordination. No, let’s be reasonable !

As has been said, anyway,  it’s tough at the top.