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Fast and Abstinence and COVID

Let us consider ways of practicing penance that are possible in our time and in our regions.

We can dream about the past and we can hope for the future. But this bleak mid-winter sameness asks us to be more highly aware of the now.

When will this terrible time end? I look to my African violets for inspiration.

“What I say to you, I say to all: Watch!”

I didn’t need to have a beloved liturgical space crushed into a parking lot to make the point stand out. But, thank you, 2020, it sure does help.

According to Dictionary.com the phrase “cleanliness is next to godliness” was first recorded in a sermon by John Wesley in 1778. All of us are

People, what are we doing? Whom are we kidding? The Body of Christ is real, but so is the Coronavirus.

No liturgical celebration has ever been protocol free.

I, or at least my subconscious, is mightily struggling across this desert-sea of worship-less existence.

Can our hand-washing become sacramental?

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