As we quickly approach the mid point of 2020, and I reflect upon the journey thus far, and the word “change” seems to sum up the days of 2020.   Change seems so much more apparent in 2020 than any other year that I can recall; even though some past years have contained great changes as well.   In these past six months or so, my life’s journey has seen the addition of a baby to our home, the death of 6 loved ones within my little circle of family and friends since the beginning of March, and of course Covid19 which has changed the world and how we do things.  

Like many of you, I have been in quarantine for upwards of about ten weeks. When things started to heat up, we stopped going to Mass the week before everything closed down, in part because we weren’t sure if one of us was sick. Also in part because we felt that we were risking getting ourselves sick, and we had very recently became almost the sole volunteers for Meals on Wheels, a program that delivers meals to vulnerable people with little to no mobility. It seems like it’s been ages upon ages since we have been able to go to Mass and receive the Eucharist.