Vicar of Rome: Parish churches to remain open; “precautionary measures must take Faith into account”

Via Crucis On-the-Go

Did you know that all you need is a simple wooden cross to pray the Stations of the Cross anywhere? Here are some illustrations from an old series I brought back from Rome years ago for your Stations on the go. Just provide your own wood Cross. In the rare case you don’t have a cross already, you can make one from any two pieces of wood around the house.

The Procession to Avert Pestilence will now be held TOMORROW, FRIDAY 13 MARCH, at 6:00 PM, to be followed by a period of adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, and Sung Votive Mass against Pestilence at 7:00 PM at S. Francis de Sales Parish in Benedict, Maryland

Archbishop Gregory has indicated Masses open to the public, in ALL archdiocesan parishes, missions, and campus ministries will not be celebrated starting this Saturday, March 14th until further notice.

“Archbishop Gregory has indicated Masses open to the public, in ALL archdiocesan parishes, missions, and campus ministries will not be celebrated starting this Saturday, March 14th until further notice. Weddings and funerals may proceed but attendance should be limited to immediate family.

“Archbishop Gregory has also issued a dispensation from the obligation to attend Mass during this time to all parishioners of the Archdiocese of Washington. 

“We will issue an Emergency Preparedness document with the latest guidance and information to you on Friday, March 13. It will include guidance on how to proceed in view of the impact of the current situation on parish and archdiocese day-to-day operations.

“We realize this is a significant disruption to our carrying out the mission of the Church. We hope these changes are for a very limited period of time. Let us remember to keep each other -- and all those impacted – close in prayer during these challenging moments.”

- from an official ADW communication sent to all priests on March 12, 2020.

- from an official ADW communication sent to all priests on Thursday, March 12, 2020

Iran coronavirus: Satellite images show Tehran building vast burial trenches for covid-19 victims - Washington Post

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“Public scourges are atonement for the sins committed by public authorities and nations that have turned away from God”

Cardinal Scola contradicts Doctors and saints in comments on Coronavirus: ‘Divine Punishment Does Not Exist’

https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/milan-prelate-on-coronavirus-divine-punishment-does-not-exist

See 2 Kings, 15-19, 24 ... when Gad was come to David, he told him, saying: Either seven years of famine shall come to thee in thy land: or thou shalt flee three months before thy adversaries, and they shall pursue thee: or for three days there shall be a pestilence in thy land. Now therefore deliberate, and see what answer I shall return to him that sent me. [14] And David said to Gad: I am in a great strait: but it is better that I should fall into the hands of the Lord (for his mercies are many) than into the hands of men. [15] And the Lord sent a pestilence upon Israel, from the morning unto the time appointed, and there died of the people from Dan to Bersabee seventy thousand men.  [16] And when the angel of the Lord had stretched out his hand over Jerusalem to destroy it, the Lord had pity on the affliction, and said to the angel that slew the people: It is enough: now hold thy hand. And the angel of the Lord was by the threshingfloor of Areuna the Jebusite. [17] And David said to the Lord, when he saw the angel striking the people: It is I; I am he that have sinned, I have done wickedly: these that are the sheep, what have they done? let thy hand, I beseech thee, be turned against me, and against my father's house. [18] And Gad came to David that day, and said: Go up, and build an altar to the Lord in the threshingfloor of Areuna the Jebusite. [19]And David went up according to the word of Gad which the Lord had commanded him. [20] And Areuna looked, and saw the king and his servants coming towards him:  [21] An going out he worshipped the king, bowing with his face to the earth, and said: Wherefore is my lord the king come to his servant? Arid David said to him: To buy the threshingfloor of thee, and build an altar to the Lord, that the plague, which rageth among the people, may cease. [22] And Areuna said to David: Let my lord the king take, and offer, as it seemeth good to him: thou hast here oxen for a holocaust, and the wain, and the yokes of the oxen for wood. [23] All these things Areuna as a king gave to the king: and Areuna said to the king: The Lord thy God receive thy vow. [24] And the king answered him, and said: Nay, but I will buy it of thee at a price, and I will not offer to the Lord my God holocausts free cost. So David bought the floor, and the oxen, for fifty sicles of silver: [25] And David built there an altar to the Lord, and offered holocausts and peace offerings: and the Lord became merciful to the land, and the plague was stayed from Israel.  ;

What to do when you are unable to attend Holy Mass and receive Holy Communion

Make an act of contrition in anticipation of going to Confession at your next opportunity, in particular

if being conscious of having committed mortal sin since your last sacramental Confession.

Make a spiritual Communion, perhaps in conjunction with watching live-streamed holy Mass on Sunday.

This Act of Spiritual Communion was recommended by St. Alphonsus Ligouri:

My Jesus, I believe that you are in the Blessed Sacrament. I love you above all things, and I long for you in my soul. Since I cannot now receive you sacramentally, come at least spiritually into my heart. As though you have already come, I embrace you and unite myself entirely to you; never permit me to be separated from you. Amen.

Continue to persevere in acts of charity and in daily prayer in communion with the universal Church, to include the rosary.

Suggestions for live-streamed Sunday TLM Masses:

The following page is provided by the FSSP and features live Masses from their apostolates in Warrington, Sarasota, Fribourg, and Guadalajara: 

http://www.livemass.net/


This site provides a livestream of Holy Mass from the ICKSP Oratory in Limerick, Ireland:
https://mass-online.org/daily-traditional-latin-mass/?doing_wp_cron=1583875626.3997900485992431640625