A liturgy out of Lawrence of Arabia
SIR – Jon Anderson’s cover story on the Eastern Catholic Churches (March 8) brought back memories of a holiday in Sharm El Sheikh. No Catholic Mass was available of course, but I did avail myself of the next best thing: a Coptic Orthodox Divine Liturgy in a local church. Space prevents me from doing the experience justice, but an overwhelming sense of how I was somehow joined spiritually in ancient ties of faith came over me. In the Coptic rite, I was so elated to join in the Kyrie Eleison, where East meets West.
