31 May, 2020

Priest supported closing churches during 1918 flu pandemic, lamented loss of Mass

https://www.al.com/coronavirus/2020/04/priest-supported-closing-churches-during-1918-flu-pandemic.html
Ah, brethren, let us today reflect on the meaning and the history of that great sacrifice at which we may not assist, a sacrifice that links us with the saints and sages of every age from Christ’s time till now, and let us beg God in his mercy to remove from us that sickness that keeps us deprived of the great sacrifice, so that soon we may again with glad, worshipful hearts, meet in our churches and assist in offering to the All High that clean oblation, seen by the prophet Malachy in vision,[3] that sacrifice that is offered in every place from the rising to the set of sun.