Posted on 04/18/2020 3:48:50 PM PDT by ebb tide
Please, my brothers and superiors — many of the faithful have written to me and told me they feel abandoned by the Church. It may be true that we were caught off guard by the sudden storm and felt required to take strong actions. But now there is time for pastoral reflection. It is time to hear the pleas of God’s good people. These pleas come from the ranks of the ordinary faithful and also from widely respected lay leaders.
It is time for a creative restoration of the sacraments, even if on a limited basis at first. It is time to implement a pastoral plan that reflects that “field hospital” once mentioned by the Pope. Field hospitals can’t always follow the exacting norms of a state-of-the-art trauma center, and so a few temporary liberties regarding liturgical practices may be required. But in the end, people need Jesus. Respectful of legitimate precautions, let’s creatively and ingeniously work to reunite the faithful with the Mass and the regular reception of Holy Communion and Confession.
(Excerpt) Read more at m.ncregister.com ...
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Summer time....No reason it can’t be outside at a Public Park...6 ft spacing and a mike for the speaker....Rally for God!!
Many, many churches are streaming daily and Sunday Mass!
Double Ping. Would love your thoughts.
Yeah it’s like...what’s the point of even having a church. It’s supposed to be a refuge *precisely* in times of crisis! Duh!
This isn’t only referring to mass but locking churches indefinitely period. Even for prayer with only a handful of people in a building. Ridiculous!
Abandoned was like 2-3 weeks ago..... Were into the ticked off phase....
Why are the priests IN THEIR Church.... Playing nanny patrol?
Instead of locking the doors? It’s a disgrace..... Don’t celebrate Mass if you can’t find the courage...... But let the parishioners in.......
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What a disgrace....
Let’s keep a ban on the stupid “Sign of Peace” handshake, a carryover from The folk music, Second Vatican mess.
Bishops have done this voluntarily under the Biblical admonition that we respect civil authority. If any wanted to file a First Amendment case the government would surely lose.
Actually, it’s a little older than that:
(and makes me appreciate that it is just a handshake now)
...in a sermon attributed to St. Augustine, but probably written by St. Csarius of Arles (P.L. XXXVIII, 1101): “After this [the Lord’s prayer], Pax vobiscum is said, and the faithful salute each other with the kiss which is the sign of peace.”
From catholic.com encyclopedia under ‘kiss of peace’
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I, for one, will not miss the Grope of Peace.
Y’all can stop holding hands and swaying during the Lord’s Prayer, too.
Does this admonition also apply to the good underground bishops, priests and lay faithful in Red China?
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i think all of the suits will be mooted by the time the courts get around to them.
Jesus didn’t keep socially distant from lepers and I bet leprosy is much worse and more contagious than COVID
Way #1: tell Comrade Governor he does not have the power to overturn the 1st Amendment.
Gee, that's funny, I see it mentioned in the bible repeatedly (Matthew 5:23–5:24, Romans 16:16, 1 Peter 5:14, 2 Corinthians 13:12, etc.) AND the early church fathers like St. Augustine and St. John Chrysostom said the sign of peace was exchanged among the faithful DURING the liturgy.
Obviously, they all must have been time-travelers who attended Vatican II in the 1960s.
At a Mass I attended in London a few years ago, they offered the sign of peace just before the final blessing.
IMHO, that is where it belongs.
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