Mass at Mainz Cathedral. The website was completely wrong, with some masses canceled and others replaced advertised Morning Prayer: to get in you needed to phone in advance to get a ticket, but no mention of this on the website. V distressed tourists at the door. 
It was lucky I was with an RC priest, who had booked ahead to concelebrate, so they were able to slot my in as supernumerary (and were very friendly in the process), but it was a proper reminder of how websites & social media aren’t an optional extra but missionally vital.
Also, I’m quite glad I couldn’t understand the Bishop’s sermon as the only words I did get were “America First” & “Trump”. Whether pro or anti, I cannot imagine that the ethics of an American, no matter now might, was of immediate relevance to an elderly congregation on the Rhine
The Cathedral’s cute - more interesting on the outside than on the in, which probably reflects its astonishing antiquity, falling the wrong side of Kenneth Clark’s dreaded 1100 line.
That said, it has wonderful tombs of Archbishop Electors (who supervised the election of the emperors) and the most spectacular pulpit, which, were I ever to preach from it, would certainly topple over in a most embarrassing fashion. #HRE2020
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