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HOLY THURSDAY : Thursday, April 9, 2020 - 7:00pm
For the Rev. John O’Neill, of St. James Church in Danielson, one of the most difficult aspects of the coronavirus pandemic is the loss of the ability to mourn together.
Practices of social distancing and isolation promoted by medical experts and endorsed through executive decrees by Gov. Ned Lamont now make it impossible for people to gather en masse for funerals when their loved ones die - whether from the virulent respiratory disease spawned by the virus or from other causes.
The longtime priest, 84, said he’s “never seen anything like it.”
The unprecedented difficulty of saying goodbye in the age of coronavirus hit home with the death of well-known and much-loved assistant Killingly High School football coach Chace Wood, 22, in a car crash last week.
“The funerals, we’re not advertising them, but we’re doing them. You just can’t have many people,” O’Neill said.
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A health and social services center for the Diocese of Jefferson City will find a home in a former Catholic seminary building, following an agreement of terms between the Jefferson City Housing Authority and Catholic Charities of Central and Northern Missouri (CCCNMO).
The agreement allows the purchase and renovation of the Shikles Auditorium, 1210 Linden Drive in Jefferson City. The building formerly housed the chapel and gymnasium of a seminary for the Missionaries of Our Lady of La Salette, a Catholic religious order for men.
“This new center will provide a place of mercy in an area of our city in great need of the healing of Jesus Christ,” explained Bishop W. Shawn McKnight. “Whenever we give food to the hungry, drink to the thirsty, shelter to the homeless; whenever we defend the weak and vulnerable, provide medicine and care to the sick, comfort to the grief-stricken, and hope to those in time of despair, we bring glad tidings to the poor and announce the Kingdom of God.”
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