Disagreeing with Canceling Holy Week

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If it is indeed more necessary and valuable it is also more precious - as are the lives and health of the priests who are necessary to provide it.

Mass can easily take place, and is now taking place, without a congregation. It cannot take place without the priest. And every priest who becomes ill or dies is one less Mass offered for us. And every additional person the priest needlessly comes into contact with needlessly increases that risk.

THAT is why it is important to temporarily exclude.the public from Mass.
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I agree semantically that “the lives and health of the priests [are also precious]” however, I would word it: “the health of priests’ souls are necessary.” Therefore, the challenge we face is connecting the dots that heavenly life far outweighs earthly life.

With Holy Catholicism, the equation is not the death of one saintly priest=less Mass offered for us. Rather, the equation is the death of one saintly priest=infinite more Masses offered for us.

As an example, when Jesus instituted the Mass, he was the only priest capable of offering His Body and Blood, yet he died, and it did not yield less Mass. Rather we have far more Masses from that one death.
 
I meant people are dying .
As for the state of a soul I would not discuss nor will do so .
We haven t grown up discussing something like this. So very much between God and each person.There are priests.
Sorry if I wasn t clear…

The Church as a battlefield hospital…Pope Francis…Nothing just remembering his words
 
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TC2,
Thank you for the link. That is disturbing and of course, tragic. I read the whole thing. From the article:

“…Covid-19 has not yet been named as the conclusive cause of death…”

The article was able to mention one other Covid-19 related infant death: an infant in China who also “had a preexisting bowel condition, and died of multiple organ failure after diagnosis.”

If we get a confirmed case of an infant death caused directly by Covid-19 I retract that statement in my previous post. It does not change my main points:
  1. It does not kill everyone. Most people do not even get sick from this disease, much less die from it.
  2. I question whether the measures taken to combat this disease are proportional to the risks of the disease, considering there are so many other risks to life that we must consider.
Currently 997,000 cases of this disease worldwide and 2 infant deaths related to it.

We all want to save babies. The risk to babies of this disease is tiny in comparison to all the other things that kill infants:

drowning, suffocation, starvation, traffic accidents, bee stings, neglect, other sicknesses etc.

I believe the real purpose of the linked article is to draw views and stir emotions. That is the true purpose of most news articles.
 
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I think it would be cool to have the Easter Vigil Mass broadcast in an old drive in theater. It could be broadcast on the screen and everyone could listen to it on the radio in their car. They would probably not be able to distribute the Eucharist to the laity, but at least it would feel more like participating than being stuck at home. Everyone could bring their own candles.
 
Priests are not infinite. They are, unlike Christ, bound by place and time as are we.

That is why they are tasked to repeatedly offer Mass and not just to each offer it once in their lives as He did.

Why do we decry that numbers of priests have declined in general? By your logic it shouldn’t matter at all how many or few priests we have, regardless of the reason, since a small number of priests saying Mass is as good as a large.

Indeed why should we care if there are any priests at all? Apparently their existence matters little.
 
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That is in really poor taste. People are dying. In Spain they are taking respirators off 65 yo + for younger people. This is going to happen everywhere.
Celebrity scoreboards make a mockery of death and suffering and job loss, and loss of housing and security going on.
 
Our town has a working drive in theatre, as well as a ‘walk in’. The plan by the owner was
to have Easter services on the 2 big screens, early in the am. Now that our county is under
lockdown, I don’t know if it will happen.

If not, our own church will stream the sermon and worship music, if the lockdown ends. If not, I have every idea that Bro. Vann will find a way to get us a sermon, even if he pre records it.

God is still in control, and He is still risen!
 
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The only thing it makes a mockery of is the lies the media has been telling getting everyone in a panic. People need facts to see the truth.
 
It’s also completely meaningless until we get actual final numbers. And who knows when that will be?
 
Yes we are all upset. To be deprived of the Bread of Life is a great chastisement. We will be morally weakened. We are beginning to see and feel the effects Our Lady of Fatima warned us about. Learn what Our Blessed Mother had to say. La Salette, Fatima, Akita.She told the little children of Fatima, “Don’t lose heart. I will never forsake you. My Immaculate Heart will be your refuge and the way that will lead you to God.” She asked us to pray our rosary every day, and that it would be the answer to all our troubles in troubled times. Wear your scapular. I agree with you. I think the churches should be open, we should be going to Holy Communion in droves, and those who want to stay home should. They are dispensed! But Americans are so frightened of this invisible enemy that for fear of their lives they would deprive you of your greatest consolation in the worst of moments. I recall another time when for the sake of the many Our Lord was sacrificed…
 
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But Americans are so frightened of this invisible enemy that for fear of their lives they would deprive you of your greatest consolation in the worst of moments.
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This enemy is not invisible. It is real and composed of matter. It is subject to the laws of physics and can be understood by medical science.
 
Yes I agree! When those in authority command lawfully then we are required to obey. However, I am sure you are aware of instances when those in authority have commanded their subordinates to do things which were unlawful…? The Catholic faith is “faith
guided by reason” not faith guided by blind obedience. “The blind lead the blind and both fall into the pit.”
 
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I didn’t actually say that. I am okay with the idea that those who wish to risk their lives for the greater good should be able to do so. Think Fr. Damian? Maybe he shouldn’t have put his life at risk to save those poor people? After all your life belongs
to you, not the state.
 
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CajunJoy, I did NOT say we should be going to Holy Communion in droves! I was quoting, and responding to, another poster.
 
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