Disagreeing with Canceling Holy Week

[pnewton]

Please be careful in judging what you think others are doing or what is in their hearts when you do not know for certain. Pride goes before the fall.
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We should not be judging what we thing others are doing or what is in their hearts. That is exactly what I have been trying to say. I know I grow weary of being judged.

This thread is more entertaining than anything on Netflix right now. I was just discussing all of this with my daddy who is a Baptist minister. He was cracking up because some Texas Baptists are having the same debates.

I know this is an emotional topic for people on both sides. It is not easy to discuss something about which you have a lot of emotional investment and still maintain both charity and intellectual integrity.

 

[catholiclala]

I know this is an emotional topic for people on both sides. It is not easy to discuss something about which you have a lot of emotional investment and still maintain both charity and intellectual integrity.

Well sometimes it’s most prudent to know when to bow out of the conversation then. I mean what is expected to be accomplished on an online forum after you’ve said your peace and then devolve into loss of charity and intellectual integrity? It’s easy to get carried away but good grief, you would think we are in high school still. Maybe some are for all I know. I’ll just sit back and watch the fireworks.

 

[Elf01]

That’s something I see happening, or at least becoming more common, post COVOD-19.

 

[TC3033]

I am also abiding by the laws of the state. I am following the instructions of the diocese. That still isn’t good enough? And no, I am not trying to find a way around social distancing. As I have already said, my own counsel on this will I keep, as I am not the one who has flopped back and forth as to what is safe like the various governments have. I have a role I have been asked to fill and will do what I am asked and abide by all applicable laws, as well as common sense health guidelines.

Really? It kinda sounded like it.

FYI, as to the six foot rule, I have an easy fix for me. I simply do not breathe while receiving communion.

The question was whether holding one’s breath when entering the six foot sphere of the priest was sufficient to keep from breathing on the priest. There is very little surface contacted at this time, and both have just sanitized their hands. The only person who could possible spread anything might be the priest breathing in your general direction, though there is not any exhalation on my part. In this scenario it makes no sense to say that you could get the priest infected through him breathing on you.

Which actually it wasn’t…it is/was skirting the 6ft social distancing.

 

[pnewton]

Which actually it wasn’t…it is/was skirting the 6ft social distancing.

Do you understand why six feet is the standard? This is not numerology, but air flow. That is why that distance is not encoded in law. It is a norm. Sometimes, greater distance is needed. I am abiding by the law and doing what was asked by the priest, following the bishop. Remember all that stuff about following the Church?

 

[TC3033]

Sure…and you said you had a way around it…right, that would be an “easy fix”.