Marti had never been to the Mass before and he wanted to ask Pat what would happen but he didn’t want Brother Declan to say it’s a report ye are on now for sure, so he kept very quiet and walked in line with Brother Declan’s class of boys all the way there. The church was a very old building with lots of very old glass windows with the pictures from the Bible like they had at Saint Joseph’s School. The church looked scary on the outside, thought Marti, but when everyone went inside it felt very calm entirely and the big old ceiling with the wooden beams looked nice so far away that he felt he could float up there like a bubble.
The light came through in lovely rays and made patterns like the shapes of the windows on the floor. Nobody spoke and everyone was very quiet and sat with their ha
