Thousands of Mexican, Brazilians Defy COVID Orders, Attend Secret Masses
Thousands of Christians in Mexico and Brazil are attending clandestine masses in defiance of social distancing orders.
“The bells don’t ring, there are no calls to mass,” Antonio Hernández, who has seen churchgoers quietly enter services at the Mexican Sagrado Corazón de Jesús church, told The Guardian.
“You just see the people arrive a few minutes before 6:30pm, enter the temple through the back door and then after that you start to hear their prayers.”
Jim Lincoln wrote: https://tinyurl.com/ (World Health Organization reports record daily increase in coronavirus) ---
Well, certainly we should pay attention to the experts of the WHO, Jim. After all they are experts at changing their opinions, depending on the needed perception.
https://tinyurl.com/yc36zsm7 (World Health Organization reports record daily increase in coronavirus)
What do I think, humble One? just take a look at the chart in the above article and you will see three countries that are doing a sloppy job of controlling the virus.
My humble understanding of Catholics is that most of them do not attend church with any regularity. Maybe the govt-imposed shut-down increased a desire to attend, like saying to someone, don't think about pink panthers, and all they can do is think about pink panthers. And there will always be the very religious elderly folk who will seek out the customary. It is like children who like to hear the same bed-time story repeated to them night after night. Elderly folk might say, after so many years, I have found what I like and I don't want to try new things in search of something I might like. "Better to like what you have than to go out seeking after something different that you might not like" (oops, that just explained why blacks have been voting for Democrats the past 50 yrs or so, with no real results; and the appeal of "Give Me That Old Time Religion")
I have seen news of Catholic churches in many parts of the USA holding services already, and a friend tells me a Hispanic Baptist church near him had a grand re-opening service today.
I wonder how the shut-down will change the local church? What do you think?
Yes, Dr Tim, but these rules apply also to the many Protestant and Evangelical churches in those2 countries as well.
The Catholics actually have been let down by their own bishops who have gone zealously along with the lockdown, even before it was declared, closing the churches early!!
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