Martina Purdy
An image from Belfast in 1998 when Sunday Mass was full of children in First Communion outfits.
There’s glitter on the seats,” the woman in front of me observed, with a friendly smile. She was shuffling into the pew in front of me. “The first communion children!” We both smiled. The boys and girls of the parish had been at Mass for the sacrament the day before. It was not my parish.…
