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Offline Cera

Re: Father Starbuck now head of chapel at OLHC in Garden Grove
« Reply #20 on: November 22, 2021, 11:11:58 AM »
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Offline Cera

Re: Father Starbuck now head of chapel at OLHC in Garden Grove
« Reply #21 on: November 23, 2021, 12:39:33 PM »
Tuesday, November 23 2021

Dear Parishioners,
 
 The following are my current Sunday/Monday updates. First of all, I am still waiting to hear from Fr. Perez’s family regarding plans for his Requiem Mass. 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.
 
 As you know, we will live-stream Mass on Thanksgiving morning at 9:00 a.m. I want to take a bold step here and have Communion following Mass. While the church will be closed for the Mass, afterwards we will open the doors and let people come in for Communion at the altar rail. It will be a brief Communion service. I ask that people not remain in the church for more than 10 minutes after receiving Communion. Then the church must be sanitized again. Also, there will be no Confessions. I am offering what I can here in the safest way I know. Thank you for your cooperation and understanding. We also need to have hand sanitizer in the vestibule for those who want it. And we need for parishioners to rise up and see that the church is sanitized after any liturgical service or meeting.
 
 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.
 
 I am aiming for a December 5 (Sunday) re-opening. This is a trial run. We will only have 7:30 and 10:00 a.m. Masses that morning. Please pray that we can open in safety.
 
 Wednesday, December 8 is the Feast of the Immaculate Conception. It is a Holy Day of Obligation. Mass times that morning will be 7:00 & 9:00 a.m. There will be no evening Mass. Ushers are requested to take collections at both the Sunday and Wednesday Masses.
 
 For updates from Angela Siffron please email her at: Churchlady@neptuneplumbing.com directly. I will send updates to her, which she will forward via the server list. In other words, do not contact me to be on this list. Please be sure to keep Angela updated on Covid cases in the parish.
 
 Last but not least, I received word today (Sunday) that Fr. Wiest is doing somewhat better. This is encouraging! Please keep him in your prayers.
 
 In our Lord,
 
 Fr. Starbuck


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Offline Matthew

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Re: Father Starbuck now head of chapel at OLHC in Garden Grove
« Reply #22 on: November 23, 2021, 05:26:59 PM »
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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).
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Offline John Felton

Re: Father Starbuck now head of chapel at OLHC in Garden Grove
« Reply #23 on: November 24, 2021, 01:18:35 AM »
Fr. Starbuck will have to answer to God for closing the church and denying Sacraments to the faithful.

Cough-and-sneeze policy..! What idiocy.

If it is to stay open, Our Lady Help of Christians chapel will need a pastor with courage.

Someone like Fr. Isaac Mary Relyea would be perfect. He could completely reform that mediocre place.

If nothing else, couldn't Fr. Sretenovic return?
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Offline Thorn

Re: Father Starbuck now head of chapel at OLHC in Garden Grove
« Reply #24 on: November 24, 2021, 01:42:38 AM »
Was Fr. S conditionally reordained?
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