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Now here's today's news, discerned differently.

Vice President Mike Pence said last night, we are beginning to see the glimmers of progress

in the fight to slow the spread of COVID-19 in the U.S. and around the world.

I watched the press conference and was also encouraged by Dr. Deborah Burks, the U.S.

coronavirus coordinator.

She reported on hopeful signs from Spain and Italy, where we see findings Dr. Deborah Birx, the U.S. coronavirus coordinator.

She reported on hopeful signs from Spain and Italy, where we see finally new cases and deaths

declining.

As she said, it's giving us hope of what our future could be.

All this because more people than ever are practicing social distancing.

However, stay-at-home orders are also affecting

many people in damaging ways. Some cities in China are reporting record high divorce rates after

stay-at-home orders were lifted. Pornography consumption rates in the U.S. are up. Isolation is

challenging those in recovery from other addictions as well.

This Holy Week, we will focus each day on what Jesus did that day on his way to Calvary and

the resurrection. What does Holy Monday say to us as we are social distancing on a level

unprecedented in our lifetimes.

Our Lord entered Jerusalem triumphantly on Palm Sunday, then spent the night in Bethany. On Holy Monday, he cursed a barren fig tree as a symbol of the fruitless nation of Israel.

He next drove money changers from the temple.

Then the blind and the lame came to him in the

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