Easter without Mass? Of course not! Mass will be said, and my family and I will prayerfully hear it said. But though we are not under sentence of excommunication, we will be forbidden to hear it said in person. Forbidden by the government—and by the Church itself—to take part in it.
Forbidding by the former is something Christians have experienced many times throughout the centuries, though we ourselves have not experienced it. Forbidding by the latter is unprecedented, as far as I know. The plague confronting us, on the other hand, is far from unprecedented.
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