Disagreeing with Canceling Holy Week

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JulianN said:
Because you don’t have the right to accept the risk for everyone to whom you could spread the virus after you leave church.
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One can accept the risks for oneself. Everyone else has the same choice and can easily hide in shelter if those around them pose a great risk.
 
It’s not wrong at to be upset. Your feelings are yours and are due to many more mysterious instances than intellectual arguments. I might suggest that, since this is something you feel very deeply, to try to make it a Lenten offering to God with the same intensity.

I don’t see anything wrong with your arguments. But it also seems that in a situation like this, there’s no way to make a universally “right” decision. I try to view cooperating with the bishops’ and government’s decision, physically and in spirit, as a way to offer to lessen the tension and fear that this disease is causing. Maybe I can’t attend Mass, but I can “Be still and know that He is God.” He created everything out of nothing without our cooperation - how much might He do if we offer our cooperation to Him?
 
andre03051 said:
Maybe this is my real issue. Shouldn’t the risk decision be made only by those who are risking their health?
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But the health of others is then placed into jeopardy. Have a look at this video I’ve seen going around twitter (originally from a UK news channel) between two professors:

“This coronavirus is very, very infectious, so every person passes it to three…if each of those three passes it to three and that happens at ten layers, I have been responsible for infecting 59,000 people”.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1241838854891622401

This is why social distancing is so important. It’s about keeping everyone safe.
 
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One could argue that and I don’t see the issue with the argument.
 
I really don’t see that the same thing to be honest.
Putting out a fire that can damage and kill people is not the same as people missing mass because the bishops have required mass to be stopped.
 
JulianN said:
If you are sheltering in place and staying away from everyone, what difference does it make?
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Someone delivers my mail and groceries. We have to pick up meds at the pharmacy. Those people all have the possibility of having contracted the virus.
 
andre03051 said:
For the risk factor again, if everyone on that mass accepts the risk, what’s the problem?
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As others have said you could bring the virus to others when you leave.
andre03051 said:
Shouldn’t the risk decision be made only by those who are risking their health?
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There will be others you come in contact with later that are not being allowed a choice because of the choice you made.
 
andre03051 said:
Maybe this is my real issue. Shouldn’t the risk decision be made only by those who are risking their health?
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Not trying to minimize your thoughts or opinions, but no. The risk goes beyond the individual taking the risk to others who have no say in that persons actions. I’m sure those who went to vacation on Spring Break, celebrated other events in larger gatherings could justify it in the same way.

Edited to add: it is your feeling. It isn’t right or wrong, good or bad. It’s the actions you take that are.
 
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andre03051 said:
I’m open to hearing why it’s wrong to be upset, because I am.
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It’s not wrong of you to be upset. It would be wrong of you to be insubordinate to church leadership, however. Be at peace and just do what you can. If they are wrong, they will answer for these decisions, not you.
 
Who are we coming into contact with afterwards?
We’re all in a shelter in place except for the essentials (which I consider Mass to be an essential).
 
Gotcha.

It’s an honest question. I’d go to Mass tomorrow if there were one to attend. The Husband would not. What’s the right thing to do in this case?

Surely I can’t be the only person who would be faced with this situation if public Masses were still being celebrated.
 
andre03051 said:
Who are we coming into contact with afterwards?
We’re all in a shelter in place except for the essentials (which I consider Mass to be an essential).
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Don’t you need to go to the grocery store at times, get gas to get to Mass? Are there people in your home?
 
andre03051 said:
Who are we coming into contact with afterwards?
We’re all in a shelter in place except for the essentials (which I consider Mass to be an essential).
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Well, you’re coming into contact with all those people providing the essentials, for a start. And then they go home and come into contact with their family, and perhaps one of their family members also goes to church, and so they come into contact with the rest of the congregation. And then each member of the congregation comes into contact with essential workers, and on and on…
 
That is literally all I think to myself. I pray for understanding why I appear to be the only one that feels the way I do. I pray for humility to accept my superiors have the burden of the decisions and they don’t need to answer to me (that I don’t even have a right to know).
 
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