A Catholic Survival Guide for the Coronavirus Crisis - by Rev Deacon Nick Donnelly
Recourse to the sacraments is essential to the supernatural lives of Catholics. This is even more true during life’s crises, such as many face due to the COVID-19 coronavirus epidemic. Therefore …More
Recourse to the sacraments is essential to the supernatural lives of Catholics.
This is even more true during life’s crises, such as many face due to the COVID-19 coronavirus epidemic.
Therefore Archbishop Vigano is right when he describes the closure of churches in Italy, and the suspension of public Mass and confession as, ‘a real unprecedented tragedy.’
For weeks now many Catholics living in China, Singapore, Hong Kong, Macau and Italy have been unable to receive the Blessed Sacrament or the sacramental absolution of their sins.
Not since the Protestant Reformation across Europe or the Communist persecution of the Church in Russia, Mexico and China, have so many Catholics been banned from the public celebration of the sacraments.
Though this time churches have been closed to protect the physical wellbeing of Catholics, the drastic impact on the sacramental lives of the faithful cannot be exaggerated.
It is a frightening prospect to face the possibility of being denied the sacraments …More
This is even more true during life’s crises, such as many face due to the COVID-19 coronavirus epidemic.
Therefore Archbishop Vigano is right when he describes the closure of churches in Italy, and the suspension of public Mass and confession as, ‘a real unprecedented tragedy.’
For weeks now many Catholics living in China, Singapore, Hong Kong, Macau and Italy have been unable to receive the Blessed Sacrament or the sacramental absolution of their sins.
Not since the Protestant Reformation across Europe or the Communist persecution of the Church in Russia, Mexico and China, have so many Catholics been banned from the public celebration of the sacraments.
Though this time churches have been closed to protect the physical wellbeing of Catholics, the drastic impact on the sacramental lives of the faithful cannot be exaggerated.
It is a frightening prospect to face the possibility of being denied the sacraments …More
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"churches have been closed to protect the physical wellbeing of Catholics" -or so our leaders keep telling us. :/ The article itself is quite good... don't mind saying so... making a Perfect Act of Contrition seems tougher than going to Mass these days. ;-)