Disagreeing with Canceling Holy Week

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MagdalenaRita said:
but also feel that a worse situation would be if Catholics didnt care that they couldn’t go to Mass.
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I have a sense of hope that the twin extremes ie those who are there only out of obligation and indifferent otherwise and those who are there filled with pride and criticism of everyone including the Priest, will both be renewed by a genuine sense of the communion between people treating each other with love, patience kindness and the fruits offered by the grace of the Eucharist. I will always have faith that the Holy Spirit will turn all things to Communion.
 
I would challenge everybody who is upset about not being able to attend Mass to simply attend twice as many Masses when they are available again and ask God to apply the Masses at the appropriate time.
 
Because then… when this group that has hipothetically agreed to attend leaves this place, they will have become a new infected person to saturate the system. Just like anybody else. It is very contagious. So in turn they will be putting at risk at minimum nurses and doctors
We can imagine for a while we don’t live in this world, but we all do…
If we are asked to stay at home then we stay at home. So far the opposite has proved quite bad.
 
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Yes I agree and believe that God always works things out for good also. I am glad to know Catholics are missing the Mass and that there are those who do still understand its importance. Unfortunately it is our human nature, when hurting, to strike out at someone or blame someone. I am sure also after we are through this all the people, despite their extremes of every which way, will be rejoicing.

Hopefully also we will remember this for a while and still be mindful of healthy habits for others sake.
 
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Going to Mass puts lots of people at risk.

One of the best rules I learned along the path of life? Never willingly behave in a way where your safety depends solely on others, particularly others who may be impaired; have poor judgment; or otherwise have less on the ball than you do.

Mass, if held, WILL be attended by someone who will sneeze…or say to themselves, “this is just a sore throat, God demands I go,” or whatever.

Wuhan is by all accounts a very serious illness - whether you recover or not. The various people who say, “I’ll go to Mass and risk getting sick” are the same ones who will want precious ventilators when it feels like an elephant on their chest and they’re burning with fever.

It’s also highly, highly infectious. Some hospitals have whole families as in-patients. A family in NJ had like 4 siblings die. Want to risk what I described above? How would you feel if you get it and a week later your whole family has it?

I am opposed to Mass attendance at present. Sorry.
 
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What if you got covid19, and you did not die but the 2 people you gave it to died?
That is why , especially in congregations like masses where a good % of the worshippers who will come out at Easter are elderly or immuno compromised or pregnant women
 
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I wasn’t really responding to you;
More to the OP/gallery than anything else.
Sorry if it seemed otherwise
 
As one who has been Catholic only 5 years, I don’t see a problem with cooperating with the bishops. They’re making decisions they believe are in everyone’s best interests, and we laypeople, IMO, should just trust in that. Not trying to personally insult or argue, that’s simply how I feel.
 
Another point: Never do anything that causes Catholicism to be held in disrepute.

If Catholics have mass and other religions close, lots and lots of people will say, “those Catholics…they just want money” or something similar.
The optics IMHO would be very poor. The decision alone causes Catholicism to be held in disrepute.
 
To the OP:
Do you live in a bubble, where you don’t touch anything ever? You wouldn’t pick up or leave germs on a pew, a door handle, a hymnal?
Do you literally have zero interactions with other people? No cashier at a store? No family member or neighbor at all? You never touch a gas pump, or anything on public transport?
These things may be true of you, but hardly anyone else.
Do you understand that although you might choose to risk getting covid, if you get it, you might have to get treatment, and risk exposing medical people, or family members to the virus?
 
MagdalenaRita said:
I just wanted to add that in my area many of the church doors are locked so you can not even go in and pray, light a candle or have private adoration. I am bothered by that.
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That’s been the norm around here for decades. Even under ordinary circumstances the church is only unlocked about 45 minutes before Mass, which is not celebrated every day, or for the hour on Saturday that the priest is available for confession.
 
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andre03051 said:
I wanted to see if I was the only one that’s a bit upset about not allowing the public to attend Holy Week services or maybe even just masses in general.
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Sure I’m upset. I’m also Catholic, and we obey Church leaders on these matters.

A lot of people in this thread are defending the bishops’ decision, which I respect, but it is not their job to do so. Our Church is not a pick-and-choose democracy.

Where you have no control over this decision, (it’s not like they’re going to rescind it if you call and complain), accept it with grace and pray for God’s guidance through this “time in the desert.”
 
Phemie said:
That’s been the norm around here for decades. Even under ordinary circumstances the church is only unlocked about 45 minutes before Mass, which is not celebrated every day, or for the hour on Saturday that the priest is available for confession.
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Yes, that is too bad. There are a few parishes in the city near us that the doors are locked except for when Massis happening but for the most part for as long as I was a teen, ( a long time ago) I knew I could always enter a Catholic church for prayer even if Mass isn’t happening.
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Mass, which is not celebrated every day, or for the hour on Saturday that the priest is available for confession.
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I suspect also if you live in an area where the priest is there infrequently, like just on Saturday and Sundays, there would be reason to lock the doors always.
 
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I have not read all the posts, but maybe you go to Mass and then later on to the grocery store and you sneeze on something I buy which are hard for me to disinfect and then one of my elderly parents for whom I am buying groceries catches the virus and dies.

All because you thought you were the only one taking the risk of going to Mass…
 
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