As an aside, I learned that not all priests in my diocese are germaphobes. One parish in one of the islands around Savannah, during the shut-down, has allowed their church doors to remain unlocked during office hours for people to visit our Lord in the Most Blessed Sacrament. During Lent, disposable booklets for the Stations of the Cross were available to parishioners who willingly and heroically embraced the possibility of virus to pray in the Church, no one forcing them to do so. How cool is that.
I also listened to Bishop Stika of Knoxville in a live interview on Catholic Radio this mooring. He said that throughout the pandemic, churches in his diocese remained open for prayer and adoration and priests were hearing confessions taking the necessary precautions. How courageous and cool is that!
I also listened to Bishop Stika of Knoxville in a live interview on Catholic Radio this mooring. He said that throughout the pandemic, churches in his diocese remained open for prayer and adoration and priests were hearing confessions taking the necessary precautions. How courageous and cool is that!
4 comments:
should it not always have been the case that arrangements for the sacraments could be made individually?
Ditto here in the southern plains.....confession and adoration Weds and Sat from 4-7pm and 3-6pm respectively, church unlocked for private prayer during daylight/office hours, a stack of devotional literature on table in narthex/lobby along with hand sanitizer and another box for handled literature to be sanitized. Am personally avoiding the romper...err...reconciliation room with kneeler/screen/wingback chair due to close confines and zero cleaning past normal weekly. It has been this way since public Masses cancelled.
“How courageous and cool is that!”
VERY. Faithful and courageous. I gave up saying the word “cool” long ago...
Anon12
Kuuool!
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