Your Faith

As many families experience more together time, from distance learning or remote work or other life changes, now is an opportune time to revisit how you celebrate faith at home.

Q: With all this new technology the Church is using, why can’t I just receive my sacraments virtually? A: These tough days of battling the worldwide epidemic COVID-19 are slowly revealing more challenges than just those who are struggling to fight the disease. I suspect these days will be the subject of thousands of studies over the next 100 years until this current generation outlives those who battled the pandemic. And, God forbid, if the world ever faces a pandemic like this again, these days will be remembered and decisions will be based upon the successes and failures of how we faced the pandemic of the 2020’s.

It was just about this time last year when our diocese was so greatly blessed with the vibrant and extremely well-attended Eucharistic Congress, which brought together more than 1,000 people from across the diocese, which focused our attention on 2020 as our diocesan “Year of the Eucharist.”

Geez Mom, isn’t it time to retire that robe? That was the unsolicited wardrobe advice I was greeted with on a recent Saturday morning as I groggily poured my first cup of coffee. “This was G.G. Mae’s — I’m keeping it,” I said.