Catholic priest blesses, encourages Chattanooga's faithful at their homes during coronavirus pandemic

Chattanooga Times Free Press ^ | April 8th, 2020 | Wyatt Massey

[Mrs. Don-o]

This is Chattanooga --- Diocese of Knoxville. Praise God! This should have been done from Day One of the social-distancing, self-isolations and lockdowns. Everywhere -- Corpus Christi every day!

More pics to follow.

[CondoleezzaProtege]

Nice!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Coleus]

Great Priest, God Bless Him!! Happy Easter!!

I visited Chattanooga about 15 yrs. ago..

[Mrs. Don-o]

More pics. This is so beautiful. I hope this can be multiplied 10,000-fold.

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[Ouchthatonehurt]

Praise God indeed.
Why is this not happening everywhere?

[fidelis]

Our parish priests here in Gilbert, AZ, did the same thing on Palm Sunday. Our parish is huge and it took them all day. God bless them!

[Mrs. Don-o]

[MayflowerMadam]

I like that white lacy tunic.

Cute kids there.

[Mrs. Don-o]

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Not hard to do at all. They pack up the Blessed Sacrament and all their gear into a station wagon. It's as traditional as can be. The Big Ecclesia visits the Family Ecclesiola.

Christ come to our homes and be adored forever!

We did this 40, 50, 60 years ago in Erie, PA on the Feast of Corpus Christi, on foot from home to home, from front-porch altar to sidewalk-altar in the Polish neighborhood.

[Mrs. Don-o]

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Blessed Sacrament. God wins.

[livius]

Thank God, literally. It’s so good to see this.

This Good Friday I went and put flowers in front of the (closed and locked) door of my parish church. Somebody else had gone by earlier and put flowers there so I added some, and I hope other people came along behind me and added more.

At a time like this, they have locked us out of our churches and away from the presence of Our Lord. It wasn’t the state that did it here, it was our very own archbishop and bishops.

[Ouchthatonehurt]

I personally have been away for periods of time in places where it was not possible to receive the Eucharist. Even then, I have never missed receiving our Lord, Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity on Easter Sunday. I am horrified of the prospect.

[Mrs. Don-o]

It's called a surplice -- worn over the cassock (the long black vestment underneath.)

I think the priest here is wearing a cape (called a "cope") -- nice in the cooler weather.

Sweet to see this done in front of people's homes.

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[Mrs. Don-o]

These are such strange times. I feel certain there's a huge back-story and under-story we are not yet seeing. Really a lot of moving pieces. But it all fits into God's plans. Wait and see.

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[Mrs. Don-o]

Here in the Diocese of Knoxville, in addition to the recorded and live-streamed Masses, all our churches have been open every day from 8:00 am to 8:00 pm, with the Blessed Sacrament on the altar, for people to come in whenever they want for private adoration.

I was a little startled when the deacons had to ask us all to leave because they were setting up to live-stream the Good Friday liturgy, celebrated without a congregation.

I noticed a lady kneeling on the walkway at the side door, peering through the glass door to view the Liturgy. Touching and solemn.

What a sad, strange Triduum.

But...

Maybe if we can't come to Church, Church comes to us.

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[MurphsLaw]

awesome AND ESSENTIAL !!!
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good news for sure....

[MurphsLaw]

awesome AND ESSENTIAL !!!
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good news for sure....

[aMorePerfectUnion]

“ shakes incense from a thurible. ”

Not a biblical church practice and has no spiritual benefit...

Entertaining.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Look up :o) search word "incense" in a Bible Concordance and get back to me :o)

BibleGateway works. :o)

:o)

Happy Vigil of Easter!

[Mrs. Don-o]

Could you ping this out to your list? Something to sustain the weary.