He also commented the following:
"It is sad that the world does not see the virus (or the economic harm that the reaction to it is causing) as a punishment for so many sins in the world. The world is turning only to material remedies instead of giving up their sins. During the plague in Milan during at the time of St. Charles Borromeo the hardest hit places were the villages and houses of those who lived in sin or mocked religion. Those homes where daily prayer, penance and spiritual reading were practiced were either not affected at all or else very slightly compared with others. Of course sometimes the just suffer as well because God gives them that opportunity for gaining merit for heaven and for offering themselves as victims for the conversion of sinners. It would be a shame if while avoiding church for fear of the virus Catholics did not at the same time make their home a sanctuary of prayer and virtue and instead make it a time for vacation from God while idly spending their time at home. When the government in the time of St. Charles instituted a mandatory quarantine St. Charles urged all to make a sincere confession and receive Communion before the quarantine began and to make it a time for prayer and penance. The people stuck at home organized their prayer life so well that it was said they were living as if they were so many religious communities. Remember, if you are not praying the daily rosary (and together as a family for those with families) then you are part of the problem, not the solution. There are other things which ought to form the minimum of prayer life for a Catholic (morning & night prayers; spiritual reading; frequent reception of the sacraments) but if the family rosary isn't being prayed daily one is not even on first base. One does not have to go to church for the rosary and can pray it no matter what. Let's be diligent in doing the things what we can all do that are so simple and then we can hope for God to take care of whatever happens."
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