Mass en route to work

In The Tablet this week Adrian Chiles compares going to a reserve match at the Hawthorns to joining a sparsely attended weekday Mass. “You are not many, but you are true.”

Between 30 and 50 people join in prayer every weekday for 07.30 Mass at the Three Patrons church in Dublin's Rathgar.

On Wednesdays a memebr of the congregation speaks for two minutes on what the Gospel of the day means for them.

The practice began on Ash Wednesday this year.

It has been an eye-opener into the faith and knowledge of those who come to the Mass.