Covid, Christmas and Mass appeal Reporter: [email protected] Good God would we be locked out of Mass? Had we to break our tradition of 30 years? And so it came to pass that, with a degree of fear and trepidation, I phoned the Black Abbey '); '); Well, well, well - did I ever think I’d see the day? The day you’d need a ticket to get into church! The day you’d need a ticket to hear Mass! The day you’d see ‘Booked Out’ posted on a church door! Booked out for, not one, but two masses! Christmas Eve masses.