‘Remember that your congregation consists if characters from Saturday Night and Sunday Morning’, said the film critic to a preacher. He was annoyed, as most of us would be. Beer-swilling adulterers like Arthur Seaton may well be present occasionally at mass, but they are not likely to be regular churchgoers; and even if they were, we cannot overlook the vast numbers of ordinary decent Catholics who only want as much to do with such types as charity strictly requires. And if we are reminded that there are also good people in this film, we can still say that they do not adequately represent that great varitations which we can find in most large churches on Sunday. But the reminder does draw attention to an often neglected aspect of our preaching: the congregation.