I had a dream. I had arrived for Mass at the Brompton Oratory. It was obviously going to be a joyous occasion, high mass with all the works, and I was settling in to enjoy myself.

I then noticed that in a side chapel a famous politician, a very famous one that was about to give a talk on politics today.

Foolishly I was tempted. Perhaps there was something I hoped to gain by being ‘seen’. It was a big mistake. The talk was of course vacuous in political content but more important, when I asked questions no straight answer was given. I wished profoundly that I was still in the mass. Perhaps the dream was trying to tell me something!