If you are sick, stay home.  (Don’t get tested.  Those who get tested and testing positive might have gotten covid via test swab.). It is regular season to get sick. 

Father Starbuck is grieving for the loss of his friend of 15 years, Father Perez. Another priest from the chapel is still in the hospital with covid. He was also a close personal friend of another traditional priest who last week also died of covid. A few months ago he also lost his beloved Mother to covid. Many families in the chapel now have covid (such as the family who came to Mass ill and coughing and the next day tested positive. He also has myriad business affairs of the chapel to attend to, as always happens in an unexpected death.

He is heroic in his attempt to do the work of three priests. He is the one who travels throughout Orange County and L. A. County giving the last rites and making sick calls.
In the name of Christian charity, this is not a time to make fun of or criticize this good priest who is doing the best he can under extremely difficult circuмstances.

God bless Fr. Starbuck.

God bless Fr. Starbuck.

Amen.

It seemed in initial planning that the family desired a Requiem Mass with catafalque (i.e., without the body). That is practically necessitated by the circuмstances of this epidemic. I will let you know as soon as I have information.

Yes, I know. The "pandemic" with a 99.8% survival rate, which only seems to affect those OVER THE AVERAGE LIFE EXPECTANCY as well as those IN POOR HEALTH.

Not exactly like the movie Contagion! In that movie, kids, young healthy people, everyone died, with close to a 10% survival rate. Almost everyone who got it died, or at least the movie made it seem.

Where are the death carts in my neighborhood, calling out their somber reminder "Bring out your dead!".
Better burn the bodies of the dead, since this is a real plague! Not enough survivors left to bury all the dead, at least not in individual graves. So many empty and abandoned houses...

What? the total death numbers aren't up by that much in 2020? No empty houses all over the place? Hmmm....interesting. Any increase in deaths is easily explained by criminality/malpractice (killing patients, use of ventilators, suppression of the MULTIPLE LEGIT TREATMENTS for Covid with no downside or side effects, giving excessive morphine to the elderly (=euthanasia), sending COVID patients into nursing homes like Gov. Cuomo did, etc.

Why aren't the homeless dead all over the place? They aren't exactly the youngest/healthiest, nor do they have the best care money can buy. They often have health issues and/or drug addictions. They sure can't "socially distance" or they'd starve to death. They have to mingle IN PERSON with as many people as possible, in order to survive (panhandle).

Was Fr. S conditionally reordained?

Tuesday, November 23 2021

We will now have a no-cough/no-sneeze policy until further notice. There is to be no coughing or sneezing inside the church. And if anyone is caught off guard, he must cover his face. If someone has a chronic cough, they are to clear that with me before attending. That way people can be assured that anyone who is coughing has a chronic (i.e., noninfectious) cough. These are protocols that were normative when I was a boy. But with the loss of etiquette and of common sense, these precautions have fallen by the wayside.

This is ludicrous.

He's diving into COVID paranoia head-first. This is exactly what is wrong with the world right now. If I sneeze or cough because I was doing outdoor work with lots of dry/dead grass that day * -- that is to say, not infectious at all, much less "the plague" -- people would hold their breath and head for the exits, thinking I have The Plague (TM). It's ridiculous. Want to talk about what has fallen by the wayside? RATIONALITY and COMMON SENSE. People used to cough and sneeze for dozens of reasons before the Covid boogeyman was foisted upon the world by the likes of Fauci, Bill Gates, and Klaus Schwab. And people didn't freak out about it. What happened to that?


* for those unfamiliar, when you wheedwhack dry grass it creates lots of dust, as the grass is pulverized, and you usually breathe in SOME of it -- the same with mowing grass and other activities. For a while after, your lungs have to purify themselves the only way they know how. They insist on 100% cleanness.

Yes, Matthew, people are becoming (have become) neurotic hypochondriacs. They seem to this all this hoo haa is about health. No at all; it’s about genocide. 

Didn’t faithful Catholics come out in droves to fight real plagues with prayers, liturgies, public processions. We have lost all sense of history. This is just collective insanity.