The Masses said at 6:30 in the evening and 7:30 in the morning in Strasbourg Cathedral are beautiful. Hearing the Gospel read in French, slowly and carefully, somehow makes them resonate more, as if they are in Latin.

I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will never be hungry.

I cannot remember the French words but as I lay awake long into the night I repeated them again and again until by morning I had forgotten the correct usage. This is how the message comes with clarity then as the world crowds in, indistinctly:

Je suis le pain de vie. Qui vient à moi n’aura jamais faim.