THE four-year-old boy was used to being popped into the bathroom while his mum dressed. She said it kept him out of trouble. While there, he would often take one of the soft, white towels hanging on the rail, and lay it carefully over the toilet seat. Then he would celebrate the mass, in Latin.
The Rev Lorenzo Lebrija laughs when he thinks about his little bathroom mass now. “I certainly remember conducting my little mass,” he says. “But my recollection of Latin is not what it was!”