It’s time to stand by our faith and clergy

HOW dare Jennifer Sleeman and Jeremie Pageot (Letters, August 16) suggest to me or anybody else to boycott Sunday mass.

Perhaps if they had done a little historical reasearch they would realise how important the eucharist and mass is to us Catholics, as it was to our forefathers who were persecuted and put to death because of their beliefs.

In nearly every parish you will find mass rocks on mountain sides and in woods where priests and their congregations fled at the risk of death to celebrate the eucharist. And let’s not forget the thousands of Catholic missionaries who left this land never to return and who died on the mission fields all over the world.