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Passion Sunday


"They took up stones therefore to cast at Him; but Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple." John 8:59.

This Passion Sunday we have many options:  take a hike, go to the grocery store, buy plants at the nursery or baby chicks at the farm store. I could get frozen yogurt with the family and pile on every imaginable topping... 

But prayer in the church?  The doors are locked- indefinitely.  "Watch livestream Masses with the bishop", read the signs on the locked doors.  "Virtual Eucharistic celebrations", reads the diocesan website.  Huh.

This Passion Sunday I will stay home rather than be questioned (again) by the city police for praying outside the church.  

We turned off the screens and gathered around the veiled Crucifix with our missals and a Roman hymnal.  

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