At the beginning of lockdown, I spent a lot of time debating with myself – no one else around to take me on – about the spirituality of Mass on Livestream, versus real live Mass. Whether online or not, the interior of the Church of the Immaculate Conception, Farm Street, in Mayfair, inspires prayer: I have always felt this, since the early days when my father, then Frank Pakenham, a convert, used to take me to Mass there. The bribe was breakfast at the Connaught Hotel afterwards (not nearly so luxurious as it is today but a good deal more luxurious than our North Oxford home).
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at the beginning of lockdown, i spent a lot of time debating with myself – no one else around to take me on – about the spirituality of mass...
Antonia Fraser
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