We see and experience so much suffering on many levels for so many people, and we pray prayers of thanksgiving if we have been spared from this illness and the devasting turbulent side effects from it. We Catholics are finding it especially painful as we hunger and thirst for the Eucharist, now that our attendance at Mass is limited to livestreaming video broadcasts on our televisions and computers. And furthering these emotions, people of faith are experiencing a great suffering of their spirit through the ongoing inability to worship as a church community. Jobs that have sustained them and their families just disappeared literally overnight as the American economy had to shut down in order to curtail the spread of the virus. We see many around us, if not even ourselves, who have lost jobs. Our sorrows run especially deep as we experience the reality of death or the struggling for survival of friends or family members as a result of this disease. And above all, our stress and anxieties are peaked by the fear of contracting coronavirus as we see each day the numbers of confirmed positive cases and deaths from COVID-19.
To learn new routines within our social isolation and for many to incorporate the education of their children during the day while schools remain closed. We have been struggling to find ways to tolerate stay at home orders. Following public policy toward mitigation of this dreaded illness has turned our lives upside down.
Our lives have been affected in so many ways by this coronavirus pandemic.
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