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Month: March 2020

Watch Today’s Mass from EWTN

Posted by | Mar 28, 2020 | |

By Daily Mass | During this time, especially during the Lenten season, we wanted to remind you that EWTN broadcasts the daily Mass live at 8 a.m. Eastern from Our Lady of the Angels Chapel on the EWTN campus in Irondale,…

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Helping hands in time of crisis

Posted by | Mar 28, 2020 | , |

B. and Toby have been camping in a green tent on a strip of muddy ground between an on-ramp to the Don Valley Parkway and a fence near St. Paul’s Basilica in downtown Toronto for a couple of weeks. 

Normally, they would have been ordered to move …

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Vatican does coronavirus testing, says Pope Francis does not have virus

Posted by | Mar 28, 2020 | , |

Vatican City, Mar 28, 2020 / 11:05 am (CNA).- The Vatican said Saturday Pope Francis does not have the coronavirus, and that recent testing of 170 Holy See employees for COVID-19 resulted in only one new case.

This brings the total number of coronavirus cases connected to Vatican City to six, papal spokesman Matteo Bruni said in a statement March 28.

“I can confirm that neither the Holy Father nor his closest collaborators are involved,” the spokesman stated.

The six positive cases include a priest who lives in the same Vatican guesthouse as Pope Francis. The priest, an official of the Secretariat of State, was put into isolation as soon as he presented symptoms of COVID-19, Bruni said.

Tests were carried out on those the official had been in physical contact with and later other Holy See employees were also tested “as a precaution,” bringing the total tested to 170, the spokesman said.

According to Bruni, only one other test came back positive from those tests – a Holy See employee who was in close contact with the Secretariat of State official.

The spokesman said other precautionary measures have been carried out, such as additional sanitation.

The Secretariat of State official is not in critical condition but has been admitted to a hospital in Rome for care and observation, Bruni added.

The Vatican’s first case of the coronavirus was found after a patient tested positive in the city state’s outpatient health facilities March 5. The facilities were then closed for one day to allow for their sanitation.

Of the next three cases to have been discovered, two are employees of the Vatican Museums and one is a warehouse employee.

Bruni told journalists March 24 that these four coronavirus patients “had been placed in solitary confinement as a precaution before they tested positive and their isolation has already lasted for over 14 days; currently they are being treated in Italian hospitals or at home.”

Pope Francis’ schedule has lessened during the coronavirus pandemic, though he continues to have some meetings in the apostolic palace, from where he is also livestreaming his weekly Wednesday general audience and Sunday Angelus during Italy’s lockdown.

March 28 the pope met with Rome’s mayor, Virginia Raggi, as well as other Vatican officials.

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Hope and Joy in these Latter Lenten Days

Posted by | Mar 28, 2020 | , , |

We are getting towards the latter days of the great journey of Lent, – and this has been a Lent to end all Lents, at least in our brief lifetimes. The word ‘Lent’ is derived from an olde-Germanico-English word for ‘spring’, as in renewal, rejuvenation, a pruning and winnowing, so that new and vibrant growth[…]

The post Hope and Joy in these Latter Lenten Days appeared first on Catholic Insight.

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The Re-Consecration of England Through Our Lady of Walsingham

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Tomorrow, March 29th, in the year of Our Lord 2020, five centuries after the beginning of what is known as the ‘Protestant Reformation’, England is being re-consecrated to Our Lady, through the intercession of her title as the ‘Lady of Walsingham’ the primary Marian shrine in Britain. We should join in prayer with the English[…]

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Texas Catholic family’s quarantine dancing video goes viral

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When health officials recommended self-isolation to slow the spread of the coronavirus, Ali Hoffman and her parents, Michael and Michele, found themselves quarantined in their Fort Worth-area home. In their boredom, they donned their “party pants” and filmed a short video of themselves dancing in the kitchen to “Hold My Hand” by Jess Glynne.

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What Monks Can Teach Us About Death

Posted by | Mar 28, 2020 | |

By Charles Lewis | A TIME TO DIE

Monks on the Threshold of Eternal Life

By Nicolas Diat; Cardinal Robert Sarah (Foreword)

Ignatius, 2019

180 pages, $17.95

To order: ignatius.com or (800)…

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