As things continue to open slowly county by county I continue to have issues with what is happening to religious celebrations. For us, this means Sunday Mass.
Currently we are doing a “hybrid” mass; consisting of online powerpoint mass and small number of participants in the church. The online mass is a change I suspect is here to stay, flu or no flu. Never has there been a more soul-less celebration of the mass – powerpoint via youtube with voice over from the presider. Not even sure why they bother to broadcast live – it won’t be long before you can only order up Sunday mass on demand just like we do on Hulu or Netflix. Hell; make it pay per view!
The in-person mass is open to a small number of masked people strategically placed at the mandated social distance. To get one of these “prized” seats you must make a “reservation”; essentially “register” to attend mass. No longer is seating open on a first come first served basis. This is wrong. Yea, I know the motives are innocent enough but that is part of the issue; people are blind to the implications of “getting permission” to come to mass! If you have to ask permission then the presumption is you can be DENIED ENTRANCE! So now the government is limiting the number of people who can attend mass.
Why don’t people see this is wrong?
