Dear Friends at Saint Mary’s Immaculate Conception Parish and Saint Frances Cabrini Parish: Praised be Jesus Christ! Today is Palm Sunday, even though we are not in church to celebrate it. Today, perhaps more than any other day so far of our virus-induced purgatory, the irony of this whole situation seems especially thick.
Dear Friends at Saint Frances Cabrini Parish and Saint Mary’s Immaculate Conception Parish: Praised be Jesus Christ! Several of you have raised concerns with me in recent days about your personal level of discomfort with the exchange of the sign of peace at Mass, and also with receiving the Precious Blood from the Communion chalices due to heightened public sensitivity right now over the Coronavirus.