General Appeal of the Lay Faithful to Bishop David Walkowiak regarding Covid-19 restrictions
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Sophia Raha
5 years ago
Please end the restrictions. Why are we worried about these little earthly things? JESUS CHRIST IS LORD
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Rod Mersino
5 years ago
It is time the church leaders show more concern for the eternal salvation of the congregation, rather than an over-hyped, low death rate flu bug.
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Margaret Wilcox
5 years ago
The majority of those who have chosen to be fully vaccinated are still filled with fear due to the constant pressure to remain masked from our government and a “most-willing-to-perpetuate-fears” media. Please, dear Bishop, help your pastors to begin the process of a message that is quite the opposite: one of encouraging the faithful to return to concern/charity/re-engagement to real-life human interaction, one of living without constant fear of one another.
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Chelsea Cornell
5 years ago
These restrictions are a slap in the face to God. The recovery rates are too high for these absurd restrictions.
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Jon and Kelly Cool
5 years ago
Amen!!!
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Kris Howe
5 years ago
GOD bless you and Mary protect you
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Mandy Howe
5 years ago
GOD bless you and Mary protect you
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Wally Carrier
5 years ago
Please remove the restrictions for mass. We are taught to trust in God, yet fear has replaced the trust.
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Anonymous
5 years ago
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Mitchell Gleason
5 years ago
I don't go to mass to be reminded that the world is affraid of a virus. I go to mass to be with Jesus. When the only thing I am able to focus on is the sea of masks, the taped off pews, the priest's obsessive use of hand sanitizer, and the constant reminder that we must stay socially distant, the mass is no longer about Jesus. It has become a celebration of fear. The only redeeming thing is the eucharist. Even the homilies become more about COVID than scripture. Its sickening. It's long past time for this to end.
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Rhonda
5 years ago
Please in the name of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ open the churches and start saving souls again!
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Dee Bennette
5 years ago
Please open our churches and restore Holy Water, What has happened is unreal. One priest at a mass I attended went so far as to say the hand sanitizer is our holy water. Another priest hand the Communicants give themselves the Holy Host so he could distance himself and hold the Paten with his arm outstretched. I think both would be considered a sacrilege.
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Duane Becker
5 years ago
It’s time for us to get back to normal. Open OUR church FULLY. If some want to wear masks, let them, if I don’t, let me.
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Marilyn Becker
5 years ago
My church should not be involved with this political insanity. My church should be open for us to PRAY to OUR GOD, Jesus, and Mary.
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Linda Biewer
5 years ago
Agree 100 percent with this letter.
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Cynthia Glowacki
5 years ago
Please open our churches again! And get rid of the masks!
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Mary Anne Fox
5 years ago
Why are we meekly letting them try to vanquish us. We are acting as if Jesus did not redeem us? He won all the wars!
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Rita Oswald
5 years ago
My Husband also signs the petition.
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Karol Sanborn
5 years ago
Please allow NO MASKING AT CHURCH! MY FAMILY HAS BEEN GONE FOR A YEAR##!!
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Russell Willemin
5 years ago
Please open our churches. The science DOES NOT support the mask.
Please end the restrictions. Why are we worried about these little earthly things? JESUS CHRIST IS LORD
It is time the church leaders show more concern for the eternal salvation of the congregation, rather than an over-hyped, low death rate flu bug.
The majority of those who have chosen to be fully vaccinated are still filled with fear due to the constant pressure to remain masked from our government and a “most-willing-to-perpetuate-fears” media. Please, dear Bishop, help your pastors to begin the process of a message that is quite the opposite: one of encouraging the faithful to return to concern/charity/re-engagement to real-life human interaction, one of living without constant fear of one another.
These restrictions are a slap in the face to God. The recovery rates are too high for these absurd restrictions.
Amen!!!
GOD bless you and Mary protect you
GOD bless you and Mary protect you
Please remove the restrictions for mass. We are taught to trust in God, yet fear has replaced the trust.
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I don't go to mass to be reminded that the world is affraid of a virus. I go to mass to be with Jesus. When the only thing I am able to focus on is the sea of masks, the taped off pews, the priest's obsessive use of hand sanitizer, and the constant reminder that we must stay socially distant, the mass is no longer about Jesus. It has become a celebration of fear. The only redeeming thing is the eucharist. Even the homilies become more about COVID than scripture. Its sickening. It's long past time for this to end.
Please in the name of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ open the churches and start saving souls again!
Please open our churches and restore Holy Water, What has happened is unreal. One priest at a mass I attended went so far as to say the hand sanitizer is our holy water. Another priest hand the Communicants give themselves the Holy Host so he could distance himself and hold the Paten with his arm outstretched. I think both would be considered a sacrilege.
It’s time for us to get back to normal. Open OUR church FULLY. If some want to wear masks, let them, if I don’t, let me.
My church should not be involved with this political insanity. My church should be open for us to PRAY to OUR GOD, Jesus, and Mary.
Agree 100 percent with this letter.
Please open our churches again! And get rid of the masks!
Why are we meekly letting them try to vanquish us. We are acting as if Jesus did not redeem us? He won all the wars!
My Husband also signs the petition.
Please allow NO MASKING AT CHURCH! MY FAMILY HAS BEEN GONE FOR A YEAR##!!
Please open our churches. The science DOES NOT support the mask.