Disagreeing with Canceling Holy Week

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davetv said:
I prefer bishops to care more about the next life, than this one.
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It’s not mutually exclusive. And you’d be hard-pressed to find Church teaching to suggest the lives of innocents should be recklessly risked.
 
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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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The priest lives next to the church. Mass is not celebrated on Monday, his day off, nor on Wednesday when it’s celebrated at the seniors’ home.
 
Davetv, your post is factually false.

It was the bishops who canceled the Masses, not the federal government.

Please state unequivocally whether you think masses should continue. Please note that if you say yes, you are functionally ordering Catholics to attend Mass during the pandemic.
 
I’ve posted this before but there are some different commenters here. The prolife position is to obey the quarantine regardless of how much you wish to go.

I’ve tried several times to explain that RIGHT NOW our greatest need is to flatten the curve for hospitalizations. Prevent more cases is a secondary and beneficial side effect. Until we have quicker testing, treatments and a vaccine…all which take time to develop and get approved…our only treatment for slowing the contagion is the steps we are taking.

When that curve flattens…and it will if people just obey the quarantines…we can then begin returning to normalcy in incremental steps most likely. At this point, it doesn’t matter what we should have done and it doesn’t matter what we will do next week, right now we need to follow the current plan, painful though it is for many.

We are not going to be in lockdown for months. Hopefully, just a few more weeks. Each time you see someone violating the distancing and gathering of groups, they are delaying many others from returning to work, Mass and normalcy.
 
Yes Masses should be public. Those that want to attend should. Those that don’t should incur no canonical penalty.

If people can practice social distracting at Costco they can do so at Mass
 
Why do you think masses should be public?

Do you acknowledge that if masses were public at this time, some folks would attend regardless of their health?

Do you acknowledge that, if masses were public, many more people would be exposed to one another?

Should the chalice be shared? Why or why not?

Do you acknowledge that masses being public at this time would likely increased the risk of priests dying?

Do you think public masses increase the risk of innocent deaths?

See, this is how we learn things.
 
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I’m not saying one way or another if Masses should be public or not but I think some might be missing the point, or the question.
I believe the question is, if people can social distance in factories, Walmart, business offices, doctors offices, and other places, why cant they also social distance at Mass. Yesterday I drove past our local hardware store and Walmart and both parking lots were full. Don’t these places increase the rate of spread?

I dont believe anyone is answering THAT question.
 
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Do you acknowledge that the Mass is more essential than School & Costco?
 
Do you think it is possible to social distance in mass?

Should mass be limited in attendance?

Should the chalice be shared?

How is it possible to social distance considering the priest must generally touch the bread and wine?

How is it possible to social distance during communion?

Or do you think we should have communion-less masses (as if that’s possible).

I’m looking forward to your and daves thoughts on these.
 
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No, I do not. At some level more important than school. But school can be done remotely.

I can live without mass. I can’t live without food.
 
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Many people have gone years without masses.

Sailors on long voyages; soldiers during wartime; astronauts on space stations; prisoners; a million different sorts of folks have often had to go long periods without mass. It can be done.
 
davetv said:
Do you acknowledge that the Mass is more essential than School & Costco?
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I’m not sure where you are, but schools are closed here. And stores except groceries, pharmacies and gas stations.
 
davetv said:
Do you acknowledge that the Mass is more essential than School & Costco?
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Matthew 12 1 At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the sabbath; his disciples were hungry, and they began to pluck heads of grain and to eat. 2 When the Pharisees saw it, they said to him, “Look, your disciples are doing what is not lawful to do on the sabbath.” 3 He said to them, “Have you not read what David did when he and his companions were hungry? 4 He entered the house of God and ate the bread of the Presence, which it was not lawful for him or his companions to eat, but only for the priests. 5 Or have you not read in the law that on the sabbath the priests in the temple break the sabbath and yet are guiltless? 6 I tell you, something greater than the temple is here. 7 But if you had known what this means, ‘I desire mercy and not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the guiltless. 8 For the Son of Man is lord of the sabbath.”
 
Emeraldlady, you said it better than I ever could have. Thank you.

Although i guess Matthew really said it 😁
 
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Yes that something greater is Jesus truly present in the blessed sacrament. So making it less important than everything else is sad on your part.
 
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