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Hello everyone. Just wanted to see how everyone is doing with all that is going on. We are on our 4th week of confinement here in Spain, hoping to decrease the death toll and transmission rate so we are making the best of the situation. We are following the daily Mass from different parts of the globe (UK, USA, Australia) and getting to know new parishes from a distance. On a lighter note and trying to stay positive in our present situation, I have made a blouse, cut out the pattern for a dress, about to start writing chapter thirty - five of my fiction podcast series and hopefully will make bread for the first time, if the yeast I have still works. I hope you are all keeping safe, busy and positive.
 
I’m healthy and working from home. Was missing my Sunday breakfast friends so I organized a video chat this past Sunday afternoon and we talked for four hours!

I’m on the team at my parish helping to record all of the Holy Week liturgies and am very thankful I will be in church this week.
 
Well done on your projects ,that’s very inspiring 🙂
I’ve been watching mass at the Melbourne Cathedral ,and plan to watch more of Bishop Barron .
It is Autumn here,so I’m busy stewing fruit and making stews to freeze.Having some success drying apples from the tree 🙂
Planning to write out travel diaries from long ago…it was such small writing and is now fading!
God bless.
 
Hi Patri,

Thanks for checking in, glad to hear you’re keeping busy!

We’re doing okay here in Virginia, USA. My wisteria plant is starting to bloom which always makes me happy. It’s supposed to be warm today so I plan on being out in the garden as much as I can.

Any recommendations for watching daily mass? My kids and I have been watching our Parish’s mass on Sunday morning (which is wonderful and I am very thankful to our beloved priests for making that available) but it might cheer us all up to see others as well.

Take care all.
 
Hello, Patri:

From South Texas, USA! I have never been to your country…

We are having a beautiful, spring day…75 degrees and very humid! The leaves and the grass is a lovely bright green!
Baking bread for the first time…wow! I like to bake! Made some yeast rolls for supper the other day. The smell of yeast rolls and bread is wonderful…I remember when I was a child and would go visit my grandmother…her little house had the aroma of baked bread drifting throughout. I wanted to bake some biscuits but don’t have any buttermilk…oh well…You seem to be a creative person…and keep busy. Do you knit? That keeps me busy…
Take care and thanks for “checking up on us”…Bless You!
 
I have been seeing some of my photos from Holy Week pop up in my Facebook memories over the past few days from when I did a study abroad semester in Sevilla. Such an amazing experience. I’m saddened the processions won’t be able to be continued this year. I am remembering Spain fondly this week.

We are in Nebraska and are well. I am working from home now and my husband is still working outside home, so we are grateful to still have income. I am 16 weeks pregnant so just trying to lay low, although I’m getting anxious stuck in the apartment. Hoping to get out for a walk later this afternoon with my husband and our young son. I’m extremely disappointed that we won’t be able to celebrate Easter with my parents or brothers.

My husband (who is originally from Mexico) and I have actually watched a daily Mass from Spain a few times! We are both fluent in Spanish and usually speak Spanish in the home. My husband found it on YouTube…I’m not sure where in Spain the Mass is recorded, but it is from Magnificat TV. It has been nice!
 
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Rural Kansas here. Geographically we are pretty isolated. My business is “essential” and actually thriving. I am grateful. 80% of the businesses here are essential so we haven’t seen much change in the number of people out. The elderly retired people are staying home, and those that are out and about are being kinder to each other and respectful of distancing and personal space.
 
Hi, I don’t knit. I dit try but it is not my forté. I am quite imaginative so I became a fiction author (aside from my day job till someone discovers me😂). I do enjoy cooking and trying out new recipes.
 
I’m fine. I work from home normally so it’s not a big adjustment for me. It’s actually a relief because now my bosses can’t carp about me not being in the office, as the office is closed by order of the governor.

My biggest issues aside from missing receiving the Eucharist are keeping up with all the work I have to do and some stuff involving matters out of state that are more difficult to tend to during the current situation. And the usual headaches finding stuff at the grocery store, although I had bought a few things like toilet paper and cat food in early March thinking we might have a disruption later.

Lots of streaming Masses, prayer groups and virtual activities online. Last week I had an online happy hour run by a parish (probably a couple hundred people showed up on the video and chat feed) and on Saturday an all-day virtual music listening party with a couple dozen friends using Spotify and a Zoom Room. Next week one of my artist friends is hosting a virtual art show of his works, online from Europe. The churches around here are also open for prayer, and in some cases Adoration, and they’re mostly still having weekly confessions, though no Mass or Eucharist.

Really nothing to complain about here. I do feel bad for our local first responders and health care people, and for my friends who are out of work right now because they work retail or service industry and their employers are shut down. Some businesses have also taken this opportunity to do layoffs that have been coming for a while, which is pretty annoying.
 
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Aaaw Sevilla! Yes, people oe wait all year for the processions and are really sad. Congrats on your pregnancy! Please be safe.
 
A lot of companies have shut down here (mine included) so there is the added worry and the uncertainty of that. I also made sure I got enough cat food😊.
 
I’m stuck at home in Acadiana, Louisiana doing college classes. Most managed the transfer to online classwork well… except for calculus. Ah, well. On the other hand, I finally got around to cleaning out part of my desk, and may do my closet. Yes, I am very bored.
I can still do my sole hobby (D&D), at least. So, things aren’t that bad except I can’t see my boyfriend…
Ave Christus Rex, friends.
 
Hi from southeastern Pennsylvania. I’m stuck here at home until I get cleared by my doctor (still trying to get in touch with him but no success yet). Otherwise OK.
 
We are doing fine here. My kids are having a bit of a rough day today, and I have bronchitis, but we are otherwise fine.
 
Central Illinois. Taking advantage of three nice days to get outside in the yard. Putting up screens, mulching around garden, etc. Hopefully tonight will be able to have a bonfire and watch the full moon.

Then will have a week more of chilly temps with some rain and T-storms. 😔
 
Labrador, Canada.
Our community performing arts venue closed on March 13. The board decided to keep paying the 2 salaried employees and the 2 permanent part-time employees. I’m very thankful for that. The casuals have all been laid off.

The four being paid are each going in one day a week to check the place and make sure everything is in order. On my day I also pay bills and do payroll. That way we stay well away from one another. I also have the work computer at home so can do other things that might need doing throughout the week. Other than the necessary grocery runs, and a couple of drives for a change of scenery, I haven’t been anywhere. There’s the odd shouted “Hello!” to my neighbours if they happen to be outside when I’m going to work.

I really miss Mass and Communion. I’ve been participating in Mass celebrated by a priest who was in our parish back when he was a deacon. He’s now a military chaplain and his chapel is 5 provinces away. I’ll be “attending” the Vigil there as it will be at 11 p.m. my time vs 6:30 localtime for the Vigil from my diocese’s Cathedral.
 
Like the Captain of the Titanic said, “So far, so good” Found out an hour or so ago that our small burg (pop 10,000) has 37 cases and 5 deaths. Sadly, we have many adult family homes, assisted living centers and retirement centers - all communal living.

With a Corona target on my back, I find that living in immune-suppressed isolation the past 4 1/2 years after a stem cell transplant has only prepared me for the current state of the world.
 
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