Recently, while on the road giving a workshop, I took the opportunity to go the cathedral in the city I was in for a Sunday Eucharist. I was taken aback by the homily. The priest used the Gospel text where Jesus says, “I am the vine and you are the branches”, to tell the congregation that the Catholic Church constitutes what is referred to as the branches, and the way we link to those branches is through the Mass – and if we miss Mass on a Sunday we are committing a mortal sin, and should we die in that state we will go to hell.