New Mexico Diocese to Cease Sunday Mass Amid Virus Surge

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press


One of the oldest Roman Catholic dioceses in the United States will again be foregoing Sunday Mass indefinitely as New Mexico marks its latest surge of COVID-19 cases.

By Associated Press, Wire Service Content?Oct. 23, 2020, at 12:09 a.m.
U.S. News & World Report

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — One of the oldest Roman Catholic dioceses in the United States will again be foregoing Sunday Mass indefinitely as New Mexico marks its latest surge of COVID-19 cases.

Archbishop John C. Wester is directing churches within the northern New Mexico diocese to cease regular Mass schedules after Sunday. He’s encouraging Masses to be streamed online or recorded so that they can be accessed by people at home. He’s also calling for funeral services and weddings to be delayed.

The guidance comes as state officials have been pushing people to stay home and adhere to the provisions of the public health order.

“Combined with the perennial influenza season which is fast approaching and persons being in closer quarters during the winter, this portends a ‘perfect storm’ to form an extremely hazardous situation,” Wester said in a message to parishioners.

He pointed to data that shows the demographics of COVID-19 cases migrating toward the younger ages and the uptick of hospitalizations, saying there are concerns about the state's health care system reaching maximum capacity for treating patients.

Read more: https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/new-mexico/articles/2020-10-23/new-mexico-diocese-to-cease-sunday-mass-amid-virus-surge

[gab13by13]

1. Where's Trump?

Force them to stay open like he did the meat packing plants.

I live in a small town in Pa. not very much Covid. Our monsignor has made everyone feel safe going to Mass. He roped off pews to social distance, mandated masks, even took the pads off the pew seats, removed hymnals and missalettes, after every Mass people come in to sanitize the pews. If Mass is crowded people have to stand at a social distance.

This is what Trump doesn't understand, smart people aren't going to come if it isn't safe. The economy isn't going to rebound unless people feel safe. You can't give me a ticket on a cruise ship. The only thing Trump and the Fed and central banks can do is keep pumping trillions of dollars into Wall Street and keep interest rates at zero which will artificially stimulate the stock market. I quit watching money cable news, they are part of the problem. Take a homeless person living under a bridge and give him 2 million dollars and then ask him how he is doing financially. That's how our stock market is being operated.

[niyad]

2. Why AFTER Sunday? The surge is happening, but hey, let's have a last service??? WTH ?????

[Beartracks]

4. Was wondering the same thing.

[Blues Heron]

3. God doesn't want you getting together right now

Satan does though