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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.

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.