Both the high and the low points of my week were Catholic. I experienced the high point watching BBC iPlayer on my computer, slumped on the sofa. The low point, I’m sorry to say, was during Mass. But it wasn’t the priest’s fault. Or mine.
For the moment of spiritual delight I have to thank Sir James MacMillan, whose Fourth Symphony was played at the Proms. I didn’t go – I’ve had enough of the Albert Hall summer sweatbath – but someone tweeted out that the TV broadcast on iPlayer and I caught up with it.
