A Response to “On administering Holy Communion in a Time of a Plague”
This was sent to me and deserves a read. You can read the Calivas article here . We can all agree that we are living in unusual times. However, the nature and extent of the illness that we face, and the proper response of the Church, is a matter of much disagreement. We have seen various responses to the COVID-19 epidemic: calls to close our Churches as infectious vectors, and demands to open them as places of spiritual healing. Directives a) ordering the cessation of sacramental life as part of an effort to “flatten the curve,” and cries for access to the divine grace that flows forth from those very mysteries; b) calling for the restriction of “at-risk persons,” and serious questions about the validity of such controls, c) instructions to liturgists to wear personal protective equipment during the celebration of the divine services and the distribution of the holy Mysteries, and uncertainty about the fitness of such practices. Who has been championing what and on behalf of whom? The ...
None find it curious on the delay of Blessed Olga of Kwethluk, a true North American saint?
ReplyDeleteOne who helped women, children, the abused, in a setting most would not find salubrious?
Nor does hear of Blessed Sophia, spiritual daughter of St. Herman of Alaska
ReplyDeleteFr Gregory. Can you give a link to this Sophia? I know nothing about her.
ReplyDeleteI am always struck that we canonized St Juvanely but not his Athabaskan companion.