BREAKING - Confidential sources indicate that at tomorrow's meeting with Thomas Cardinal Collins, Ontario Premier Doug Ford will announce that churches will be "allowed" to reopen for services on June 14 at 15% capacity and on July 5 at 30% capacity up from the current ten persons. Earlier today, Ford announced that schools will not reopen until September.
While we must always resist the draconian and unconstitutional actions of the Ontario and other provincial governments in Canada, and indeed in other places, we must always bemoan that the greatest enemy was our own weak and cowardly episcopal leaders who chose not to fight but to acquiesce for millions in public money.
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So true, and, a mostly silent and complacent citizenry certainly makes it easy. The tyrants of the UK got tens of thousands of Brits in the street, demanding their rights, holding signs, tooting horns, and letting it be known they are there and aware, they demand their rights and they pushed back. They sent a message.
What message did Ontario get? Toronto? Anywhere? If the message is "we'll take it and be glad to stay home with our masks on, don't hurt us", that's a bad message to send.
Is the source saying churches will open on those specific dates, or on the same dates as the Phase 1 and Phase 2 start, whenever those end up being?
Those dates. We will see…
But what if we wore hockey jerseys and pretended it was an essential hockey game on Sunday morning? Would our numbers magically increase then?
Of course.
We should've all shown up as thousands of volunteers at the hospitals saying we were willing to help out, and therefore be classified as 'essential' and maybe then we could show up for Mass.
Don't worry, there's nothing to do at the hospitals anyway. It's a complete state of non-emergency.
For many parishes, 15-30% is pretty much everybody who attended during the old normal. Sad.
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