a.d. 155

… and when many of the disciples of Our Lord heard His words, they ran away.

He can say Mass by himself or with a gathering in a cave or catacomb, at sea or the Antarctica, during a raging storm or battle, in prison or in captivity, and has been said in all those times and at all those places before, never deviating from the spoken word or the harshness of truth.

Three times in my senior year of high school I served a priest, just the two of us, before school started, so I had to be there in the residence by 7am. He said Mass on the second floor in a private chapel. The distance to school on foot was a fast, could-see-my-own-breath, 23 blocks.