Fr Bernard writes…
Sunday April 5th Palm Sunday 2020
As the world groans under the Covid-19 pandemic, as the number of those affected and those who have died as a result of the virus grows daily, the Church enters Holy Week with a heavy heart. None of us has ever experienced such a time, with our church locked and attendance forbidden. All of us will probably know someone who has been affected by the virus or those who with enormous courage and self sacrifice are at the sharp end of our medical and caring professions. We owe them a huge debt of gratitude as we do so many others who maintain our essential services and provide food and drink. For huge numbers of people throughout the whole world the Covid-19 virus is a very real cross bringing with it fear and grief, fear that we may be contaminated, grief for those who have been bereaved as a result of the virus. Matthew’s Passion Narrative is the gospel for Palm Sunday this year. It is the longest, and, in some ways, the most stark. As we read it in our own homes we can think of it both as a description of what happened to Jesus nearly 2,000 years ago, and we can link it to those who carry a heavy cross today, a cross we do not carry alone. Death did not have the last word for Jesus nor will it for us.
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