4 Minutes to Midnight

Fr dear Fr: Is there anything religious and meaningful that can be salvaged from the brand new Netflix TV Series “Midnight Mass” in which a priest becomes a vampire and goes back in time to restore his once and future love, like a Hampton Court chaplain to a Queen of the Reds?

This Quaestio effectus Medievalis emanates from Ely from a chap called Victor. A touching story of an old monsignor who gets lost on a pilgrimage in Israel near the mountains called Pella and meets what he thinks is an angel in a cave where he shelters for the night and then he is co-opted into the vampire world through the angel, but he gets younger and younger until he returns to his parish this time as a young priest taking over called Fr Hill. There he has various adventures, the set-piece liturgies are quite good, and slowly very slowly he involves the parish in more and more vampire shenanigans with the angel until it all ends very sadly but poignantly with a touching display of love for the young Mildred that he too had sought to save from death and to give some elixir of eternal youth. A very nice TV series which reminds us all of the youthful power of the sacraments in which our youth if not innocence is restored to Eden. Nice churchy TV Series. Not everyone’s cup of tea, but salutary, with apologies at the end.