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Five years ago, the Christians of our country experienced a Easter as no before, and hopefully, like none, we will never see again. It was a moment of isolation, loneliness and anxiety, and yet we are learning that from this darkness, the flame of our faith has only become brighter.
Before Covid Pandemia, few Americans could have imagined any day, much less a Easter Sunday, we couldn’t go to church. This is, after all, a nation created by people who sought the freedom to worship, however, they would.
Throughout the benefit in 2020, which disturbedly tracked with the appearance of the Chinese virus, I remember listening to the bells of the Brooklyn church pelando, drilling the strange silence of the empty urban landscape.
Within Donald Trump’s relationship with God, in his own words: “I was safe”
But the church doors were tight in the orders of the epidemiologist.
The sound of the bells mixed the comfort with mockery, a hard reminder of the spiritual prohibition, but also sounding with the promise and the truth that this would also happen.
At that time, separated from my family, I wrote in a column for the New York Post that “we have given Lent for Lent. But we woke up Sunday with the surreal reality of the current circumstances, there is hope to see each of the others again.”
As we celebrate the Lord’s resurrection this year, not only Covid enclosures have passed, not only our churches are open, but are full of edge with flocks of the faithful, new and older, in which some.
In the Church, things can be beautiful, true and celebrated, unlike the world full of sarcasses of our screens that prosper in cruel jokes.
This week, that same New York Post executed an article with the glorious headline: “Young people are becoming Catholicism and the mass, driven by pandemic, internet, the ‘laxas’ alternatives.”
The National Catholic Registry informs that Catholic parishes throughout the country are experiencing a 30-70% growth in assistance, and are not just Catholics. Ask any practicing Christian in our country, and I find myself a lot on the way, and most will tell him that they see and feel the growth of faith.
People attend Sunday Mass in the Catholic Cathedral of San Patricio, in New York City, on October 16, 2022. ((Photo by Daniel Slim / AFP) (photo of Daniel Slim / AFP through Getty Images)))
Perhaps we should not surprise ourselves that the bitter COVID Cup led to greater religious observance by Christians. After all the Holy Spirit, speaking three prophets, has counted for thousands of years of periods of loss and suffering that end in the fullness of the light of God.
From exile from Eden, to flood, to the exodus, and finally the 40 days of hunger and temptation of Christ in the desert, again and again, it is suffering that leads the people of God closest to him.
Duration Covid, our desert was isolation, and especially for young people, only exacerbated what was already a intelligent telephone trend that replaces children’s parks, or online virtual life slowly supplant reality.
In the Church, everything is very real, no matter how much it has been for more than a thousand years. In the church, we are never alone. In the Church, things can be beautiful, true and celebrated, unlike the world full of sarcasses of our screens that prosper in cruel jokes.
Human beings need a purpose and meaning beyond being a gear in the brave new world of technology. We need connection with our God and others.
Therefore, we must think of our cold and dark Easter Covid this year, jumping illuminates the clouds and heats the grass in this nation, and remembers that once again, as always, God has freed us from suffering.
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This year, there will be family and friends, hands and hugs. There will be no masks, and life will be well lived, as in the old days, as in the old normal.
Perhaps more than anything else, we all learned in the difficult way not to give the practice of our faith. We never think they could be tasks of us, and yet it was, he thought that only briefly.
The other night, I had to pick up my son from his CCD class in the church. They were after 9 pm and the class was late. He was tired and annoying, but then he and his friends dating, laughing, having spent an hour talking about God.
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A feeling of gratitude dragged me. I didn’t have to be there, I have to be there. This was a burden, it was a blessing.
Is America prepared for a new religious rebirth of Covid ashes? It can be too early to say it, but in the end, it depends on us, and so far, the signs look pretty good.
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