or maybe the mass in B minor?

It's a shame it's too long to be a real mass, I promise I'd sit through it all if it were ever done as such. And it's a shame that such beauty would be out of place in Protestant congregations today. The only way Bach can make any entrance into a sanctuary [or "gymtuarium", I think, was somebody else's clever term from the comments on the ochlophobist's previous web-log, but don't know whose] in these last days is as a concert piece completely divorced from the actual liturgical life of a church except insofar as beautiful things done well glorify God whenever they're done [S.D.G.!].

But Palestrina sometimes is performed as a real mass, and that will have to do, if I can ever find it being done.