ONLINE MASSES BOMBING: Low response to ‘virtual’ Mass participation
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Since mid-March, public Masses have stopped in the United States, and many priests have taken to streaming their private Masses on the internet, but few people are interested.
A new report published by the American Perspectives Society, “Fear, Frustration and Faith: Americans Respond to the Coronavirus Outbreak,” shows only 36% of Catholics are participating in livestreamed religious services.
Pope Francis’ Masses, streamed live daily on YouTube, get between 10- and 20 thousand daily views, over 30 thousand for Sunday Mass and over 400 thousand views for Palm Sunday.
But for other Masses streamed online, the number of viewers is significantly lower — all this despite more people praying due to the Wuhan virus.
According to economist and researcher Jeanet Bentzen, since the beginning of March, “prayer” has become one of Google’s top search terms and “the rise in prayer intensity supersedes what the world has seen for years.”
But some are worried. Rhode Island Bp. Thomas Tobin tweeted:
I wonder — after the crisis is over and public Masses resume, will people realize how much they need and missed the sacraments and hurry to church again, or will they have grown lax and complacent and stay away for good? I pray for the former; I fear the latter.
With the number of Catholics attending Masses dropping to nearly zero in the last month — but more people praying during the virus crisis — it’s not known if people will be back in the pews when churches reopen.
Read the source: https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/online-masses-bombing
DEATH DOESN’T MATTER
by David Nussman • April 9, 2020
The risk of the priesthood
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If a priest would risk his life or even die or in the process, he must offer the sacraments to someone near death. However, as the current Wuhan virus pandemic spreads, various bishops are acting as though that obligation no longer exists.
This point was emphasized by traditional priest and exorcist Fr. Chad Ripperger, who told LifeSite in a recent interview, “If there is somebody dying imminently, then the priest would still have the obligation to give the last rites, because his obligation is the person’s salvation over his own physical well-being.”
The priest’s comments come after Bp. Mitchell Rozanski of Springfield, Massachusetts temporarily banned priests from offering the sacrament of the anointing of the sick.
Rozanski — along with several other bishops — has ordered churches and adoration chapels to close for fear of spreading the Wuhan virus. The bishop also banned the sacrament of penance — prohibiting even drive-thru confessions.
Similar crackdowns on the sacraments are taking place in dioceses around the country, with many canceling confirmation and First Communion at the Easter Vigil for converts — and even suspending baptism for newborns.
Father Ripperger, like others, has called on Catholics to pray earnestly for the restoration of public sacraments.
Read the source: https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/death-doesnt-matter
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Jesus Christ is really, truly and substantially present in the Eucharist. And because of this, Eucharistic adoration is not only a wonderful thing, but also a wonderful gift to us from God. “The Eucharistic presence of Christ begins at the moment of the consecration and endures as long as the Eucharistic species subsist. Christ is present whole and entire in each of each of the species and whole and entire in each of their parts, in such a way that the breaking of the bread does not divide Christ. In the liturgy of the Mass we express our faith in the real presence of Christ under the species of bread and wine by, among other ways, genuflecting or bowing deeply as a sign of adoration of the Lord” (CCC: 1377-1378).
