Challenges Catholics Face during COVID-19: Your Questions Answered

All Things Catholic with Dr. Edward Sri

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🗓️ 17 March 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Jesus wants to meet us in our uncertainty, our fears, and our disappointments. He wants to do something in our souls. In all of this, he’s inviting us to rely more on him and not on ourselves. On today’s special edition podcast, my wife Beth joins me to address unique challenges Catholics are facing during the COVID-19 pandemic. We respond to listener questions about financial fears, the dangers of working outside the home when one has vulnerable family members, discernment without time before the Blessed Sacrament, and diocesan recommendations to receive Communion on the hand. We then give you tips to help you respond with openness to the graces the Lord wants to bring to you during this time.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Edward Sree, and welcome to all things Catholic where real faith meets real life. What is it that's weighing on your heart in these tumultuous times? What is it that you're
0:20.8	worried about, that you're anxious about in all this uncertainty?
0:24.6	Jesus wants to meet you in the midst of this and he's inviting you to rely more on him
0:30.9	than on yourself.
0:32.8	You know, many of us have seen the world turned upside down, it seems, in the last week or two.
0:38.8	Some of us may be in diocese where they've canceled masses.
0:41.6	All of us have seen universities closing,
0:43.9	schools closing, some businesses starting to close.
0:47.2	Many people are worried about their jobs,
0:48.7	they're worried about their health.
0:50.6	Am I gonna get this thing?
0:51.6	They're worried about their baby's health, they're worried about their elderly parents.
0:55.0	Some people are just wondering, will there be enough toilet paper?
0:59.0	You know, also a lot of us may have had some disappointments. We've had to make some changes.
1:03.4	You know, maybe there's something we were really looking forward to, like our kids' sports season or a certain
1:09.6	vacation or a certain business trip, a certain conference, and all these things have had to change.
1:15.6	I want to share with you one disappointment I had this past Sunday.
1:19.3	I woke up and there was a certain Bible verse deep on my heart. It was from Song of Songs, Chapter 3,
1:25.3	verse 2. I will search for my beloved. I searched for him, but did not find him. I woke up on
1:32.3	Sunday morning with this longing for my beloved
1:35.3	Jesus, this longing to receive him in the Eucharist, this longing to go to
1:40.8	mass, but I couldn't because here in Denver all the masses have been
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