I went to Mass at the Brompton Oratory and I was curiously irritated that the Communion wafers ran out before I could receive one. Some people had arrived late and not placed one in the Ciborium at the back of the chapel.

What does it matter, in a sense, whether you receive communion? Isn’t a spiritual communion just as good? Maybe I am getting into the habit of receiving communion and find it difficult to do without it.

I was thinking back to last week’s Birthday of the Blessed Virgin Mary. I wonder if Mary ever had Communion on this earth. Presumably she did after Jesus’ death and resurrection, as the very earliest church developed its liturgy.