Mass is canceled in the Diocese of San Jose. Last Sunday, a letter from the Bishop was read at all Masses absolving all those who are high risk for COVID-19 from attending, and I had decided not to go. At 64, I'm still one of the younger members of the choir. We have a 93-year-old member and many in the 80 range. I did not want to chance being a disease vector as I could have picked something up at work without knowing it. (Thank God my boss did not go home to China this past Christmas. He usually does. Home is 90 km from Wuhan. His parents there are fine.) I'm just around too many people who travel to India and Asia a lot to risk being around people who may be more fragile than I.
The Diocese is live streaming Mass tomorrow: 10:00 English, 11:00 Spanish, 12:00 Vietnamese. I subscribe to Magnificat and read all the Mass readings every day any way. I"m not going to stress over missing Mass.
I'm assuming this will carry through to Easter. I'm still practicing my music for the Triduum (Holy Thursday, Good Friday, Easter vigil), but I don't expect them to happen this year.
I have frozen my gym membership, too. I haven't ridden my folding bike since I started using a cane regularly. I hauled it into the trunk of my car and filled up the tires the other day. Yesterday, when it was nice, I went out riding it to the park. Boy, despite riding the exercise bike at the gym regularly, I am out of shape for bike riding. It was worth it though - in the park, there is an open pavilion. There was an erhu class in session. That's the long necked Chinese stringed instrument. The instructor was playing violin, rather than the erhu. He was running them through scales (minor, of course). Some of the students were obvious beginners but some sounded beautiful. I watched them for a little bit.
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Mass is canceled in the Diocese of San Jose. Last Sunday, a letter from the Bishop was read at all Masses absolving all those who are high risk for COVID-19 from attending, and I had decided not to go. At 64, I'm still one of the younger members of the choir. We have a 93-year-old member and many in the 80 range. I did not want to chance being a disease vector as I could have picked something up at work without knowing it. (Thank God my boss did not go home to China this past Christmas. He usually does. Home is 90 km from Wuhan. His parents there are fine.) I'm just around too many people who travel to India and Asia a lot to risk being around people who may be more fragile than I. The Diocese is live streaming Mass tomorrow: 10:00 English, 11:00 Spanish, 12:00 Vietnamese. I subscribe to Magnificat and read all the Mass readings every day any way. I"m not going to stress over missing Mass. I'm assuming this will carry through to Easter. I'm still practicing my music for the Triduum (Holy Thursday, Good Friday, Easter vigil), but I don't expect them to happen this year. I have frozen my gym membership, too. I haven't ridden my folding bike since I started using a cane regularly. I hauled it into the trunk of my car and filled up the tires the other day. Yesterday, when it was nice, I went out riding it to the park. Boy, despite riding the exercise bike at the gym regularly, I am out of shape for bike riding. It was worth it though - in the park, there is an open pavilion. There was an erhu class in session. That's the long necked Chinese stringed instrument. The instructor was playing violin, rather than the erhu. He was running them through scales (minor, of course). Some of the students were obvious beginners but some sounded beautiful. I watched them for a little bit.