{"id":6792,"date":"2020-04-06T14:11:15","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T18:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/?p=6792"},"modified":"2020-04-06T14:47:02","modified_gmt":"2020-04-06T18:47:02","slug":"365209-covid-holy-week-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/365209-covid-holy-week-at-home\/","title":{"rendered":"365+#209: Covid Holy Week at Home"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>So much has changed since Covid-19 has taken over the world. My Lenten commitments seem almost frivolous or irrelevant in the face of deaths, lay-offs, and closings, but here\u2019s the skinny on them:
\n1. Eat a vegetarian diet<\/span> <\/strong>\u2013 continues, but with more appreciation of grocery workers & farmers
\n2. Avoid single use plastics<\/span><\/strong> \u2013 It’s complicated. In order to support small businesses, we purchased a couple carry-out meals, but that included plastic trays.
\n3. Use more public transportation<\/span><\/strong> \u2013 \u2260<\/strong> social distancing, but I\u2019m not going out much anyway.
\n4. Interact more directly with people in need<\/span><\/strong> \u2013 Continue to give grocery gift card. Dropped off food to the local Catholic Worker house instead of eating with the guests.
\n\"\"<\/a>5. Continue to prune more stuff from my hom<\/strong>e<\/span> \u2013 With meetings cancelled, I took time to clean house. This included long needed dusting which uncovered more than dust: extra necklaces, holey socks finally got darned, floors got cleaned, and windows washed.<\/p>\n

But Lent has grown beyond my initial commitments. Physical social distancing created space for more physical activity like walking to the grocery store, longer bike rides, and gardening.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>And now, of course, as Christians embark on Holy Week (Jews celebrate Passover, Muslims observe Ramadan\u2026) my thoughts turn to how do these religious feasts which are usually commemorated in churches, temples, and mosques square with social distancing. Beyond live streaming religious services, what\u2019s a person of faith to do?<\/p>\n

Since my background is in Catholic Family Ministry and our own family has experimented with many ways of doing \u201cchurch at home\u201d I offer these ways to bring religion home which I recently sent out to people getting my weekly Parenting Pointers around the USA.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Check out CORONAVIRUS AS OPPORTUNITY \u2013 Holy Week 2020<\/a><\/strong><\/span>
\n<\/span><\/strong>It includes a
\n\u2022 Home ritual for any time in Holy Week (From Where I Sit<\/em><\/a><\/span>)
\n\u2022 Holy Thursday Foot Washing<\/span><\/em><\/a> basic service
\n\u2022 Holy Thursday – Marianist Family Retreat Center Footwashing Service<\/a><\/span><\/em>
\n\u2022 Family Meditations for the Stations of the Cross<\/a><\/span><\/em>
\n\u2022 Stations of the Cross with a social justice perspective<\/span><\/em><\/a>
\n\u2022 Easter morning 15th<\/sup> Station<\/span><\/a><\/em>.
\n(You might wake early and do this last one outside at \u201csonrise.\u201d)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So much has changed since Covid-19 has taken over the world. My Lenten commitments seem almost frivolous or irrelevant in the face of deaths, lay-offs, and closings, but here\u2019s the skinny on them: 1. Eat a vegetarian diet \u2013 continues, but with more appreciation of grocery workers & farmers 2. Avoid single use plastics \u2013 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[30],"class_list":["post-6792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-days-365","tag-faith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6792"}],"version-history":[{"count":38,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6835,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6792\/revisions\/6835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}