Mass is occurring even if we are not there

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Much is being said about mass being “cancelled”. It is not. Each priest continues to offer daily mass privately. We must remember this. We are missing attending to protect each other, truly a Christian act. Can there be greater penance to offer than to each have to carry our faith alone for a while?

Our church has lasted through worse than this. In a few weeks we will be back. My hope is we will not forget the Lenten season isolated from each other and our church.
 
Thank you for posting this, as it clears up a certain confusion that is circulating during this rare occurrence.

For those worried about not being able to attend mass, we have been dispensed from the obligation.

Secondly, Korea has a particularly interesting tale of the seed of faith being planted there. From the Franciscan Media page on Saint Andrew Kim Taegon and companions:
Christianity came to Korea during the Japanese invasion in 1592 when some Koreans were baptized, probably by Christian Japanese soldiers. Evangelization was difficult because Korea refused all contact with the outside world except for taking taxes to Beijing annually. On one of these occasions, around 1777, Christian literature obtained from Jesuits in China led educated Korean Christians to study. A home Church began. When a Chinese priest managed to enter secretly a dozen years later, he found 4,000 Catholics, none of whom had ever seen a priest. Seven years later there were 10,000 Catholics.
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God granted them the grace to persevere until the sacraments arrived.

If they could endure those 12 years of anticipation, we can certainly endure a few weeks or months.
 
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It won’t be. We will soon figure out the cure could be more deadly than the disease. People die from economic depressions. So we will keep this up for a while, turn the corner on the spread, then start opening society back up.
 
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It won’t be. We will soon figure out the cure could be more deadly than the disease. People die from economic depressions. So we will keep this up for a while, turn the corner on the spread, then start opening society back up.
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It will be hard to reopen society if the number of people getting sick increases as
well as the number of hospitalizations increase and deaths. You can’t stop the number of cases spreading by releasing everyone back to their normal lives
again.
 
No you can’t. We have to get the new cases down. But then, like Singapore and South Korea, we have to start functioning as a society again.
 
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