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Diocesan students and parishioners joined the impromptu, nationwide movement to bring color and cheer amid the pandemic by writing encouraging notes with colorful chalk on sidewalks.
I’m hearing it from my friends, and at times I feel it inside: “My days are running together,” “I’m spiritually catatonic,” “This really has me worried.” But when your spouse or kids tell stories in 30 years about the COVID-19 Crisis of 2020, what will they say about you? If you’re a dad or mom, will your kids grimace and say, “My dad was a jerk,” “My mom was a wreck,” or will they smile and begin a remarkable story with, “I remember … ”
In a dark and nearly empty St. Peter's Basilica, Pope Francis blessed a fire, lit the Easter candle and called Christians to keep kindling sparks of hope, knowing that Jesus has risen and death will not have the last word.
The Easter Vigil Mass begins in a dark church that gradually is filled with hundreds of flickering candles lit from a large paschal candle. This year, due to the coronavirus pandemic, it was livestreamed to thousands from across the Arlington diocese and beyond, perhaps holding their own candles in front of flickering computer screens.
The pope's traditional Easter message before his blessing "urbi et orbi" (to the city and the world) still mentioned countries yearning for peace, migrants and refugees in need of a welcoming home and the poor deserving of assistance. But his Easter prayers April 12 were mostly in the context of the suffering and death caused by the coronavirus and the economic difficulties the pandemic already has triggered.
Bishop Michael F. Burbidge of the Diocese of Arlington and Bishop Barry C. Knestout of the Diocese of Richmond issued the following statement on the Governor's signature of abortion legislation yesterday.
For the first time in his papacy, Pope Francis led the Way of the Cross from St. Peter's Square rather than Rome's Colosseum, where it has been held annually for more than five decades.
The coronavirus is not some form of divine punishment but a tragic event that, like all suffering in one's life, is used by God to awaken humanity, said the preacher of the papal household.
This year, in the Arlington Diocese and elsewhere, the Good Friday service was even more stark and bare than usual, with public worship services suspended and the faithful under stay-at-home orders to stem the spread of the deadly coronavirus now sweeping the nation and the world.
Youths and young adults are connecting virtually through efforts of the Arlington diocesan Office of Youth, Campus, and Young Adult Ministries .
