Coronavirus Threat Closes Countless Churches on Third Sunday of Lent

Masses have been cancelled all over the world

Spiritual Communion

“Where I am, in the Cupboard Under The Stairs, the local county has decreed that gatherings of 250 or more, including religious events, are banned.  You can still go to nearly every other sort of place, but not church if there are 250 people.  Fine or imprisonment!    “Still, people want to go to Mass.  They want also the graces of hearing Mass, participating, and also, possibility, receiving Communion. “There are times when it is not possible to receive Communion or one does not choose to receive, but could. St. Thomas Aquinas taught that you can gain great graces through a Spiritual Communion. “This pandemic thing might get to a point where people aren’t allowed to go out or churches are forced by the state to be closed. “Then you have the option of making a Spiritual Communion. "When might you make a Spiritual Communion? “Often. “Where? “Anywhere. “How do you make a Spiritual Communion? "Start with an Examination of Conscience and, perhaps, the Sacrament of Penance.

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“Since the effects of a good Spiritual Communion can be as much or greater than a regular, physical Communion, it is clear that you must be in the state of grace. “Therefore, you must know what your state of soul is. That’s accomplished through a good examination of consciences. Go to confession if you uncover something serious. “I would also recommend beforehand an act that would remit venial sin, too. You might use Holy Water in blessing yourself and say the Our Father. "Repeat with some frequency. "A few formulae for a Spiritual Communion. Sometimes it is best to start with something in which there is, for certain, no error. St. Alphonsus Liguori:

“My Jesus, I believe that you are present in the most Blessed Sacrament. I love You above all things and I desire to receive You into my soul. Since I cannot now receive You sacramentally, come at least spiritually into my heart. I embrace You as if You were already there, and unite myself wholly to You. Never permit me to be separated from You. Amen.”

Coronavirus and no other virus can ever separate us from Lord and Savior

“[1] Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the tomb. [2] So she ran and went to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved, and said to them, ‘They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid him.’ … [10] Then the disciples returned to their homes. [11] But Mary stood weeping outside the tomb. As she wept, she bent over to look into the tomb; [12] and she saw two angels in white, sitting where the body of Jesus had been lying, one at the head and the other at the feet. [13] They said to her, ‘Woman, why are you weeping?’ She said to them, ‘They have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have laid him.’ [14] When she had said this, she turned round and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not know that it was Jesus. [15] Jesus said to her, ‘Woman, why are you weeping? For whom are you looking?’ Supposing him to be the gardener, she said to him, ‘Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away.’ [16] Jesus said to her, ‘Mary!’ She turned and said to him in Hebrew, ‘Rabbouni!’ (which means Teacher). [17] Jesus said to her, ‘Do not hold on to me, because I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to my brothers and say to them, “I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.” ’ [18] Mary Magdalene went and announced to the disciples, ‘I have seen the Lord’; and she told them that he had said these things to her.”

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