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I do not know how much longer we will be celebrating public Masses in the Archdiocese of Baltimore. Many of the larger suburban parishes that routinely get more than 250 people (the limit now set for public gatherings by the state of Maryland) have already canceled their Masses. The Cathedral usually gets not many more than 250 at each of the five Sunday Masses, so, at least for the moment, we are proceeding with public celebration of the liturgy. So I am taking the opportunity this Sunday to reflect with our assembly on different sorts of “social distancing”–to offer resources for an examination of conscience in this extraordinary moment and to help prepare for what might lie ahead.<\/p>\n

UPDATE: Masses have been canceled in Baltimore, so this homily won’t be preached. Others will be making much greater sacrifices.<\/p>\n

UPDATE 2: So in this brave new world I decided (urged by my wife and son) to stream my homily from home (starts around the 4 minute mark)<\/a>. This has got me thinking about what we might do for however long the suspension of public worship lasts in order to at least virtually gather people together.<\/em><\/p>\n

Among the many new things that the coronavirus
\nhas brought into our lives
\nis the phrase \u201csocial distancing.\u201d
\nThis is the term for one of the key prescriptions
\nfor slowing the spread of the coronavirus
\nto the point where cases of Covid-19
\ndo not overwhelm our medical facilities.
\nThe idea is that you literally \u201ckeep your distance\u201d
\nfrom other people to reduce the chance
\nof being infected or infecting others.<\/p>\n

In today\u2019s Gospel, which tells of Jesus\u2019 encounter
\nwith the Samaritan woman at the well,
\nwe hear of a different kind of social distancing.
\nThe woman is surprised
\nto have Jesus ask her for a drink
\nbecause, we are told,
\n\u201cJews use nothing in common with Samaritans.\u201d
\nJews and Samaritans viewed each other as heretics
\nwho practiced deviant forms of the religion of Israel.
\nBut more than that, Jews considered Samaritans
\nto be in a sense \u201cunclean,\u201d
\nsources of a kind of religious contagion.
\nFor the Jews, social contact with a Samaritan
\nwas a risk to one\u2019s religious purity.
\nThis is why the Samaritan woman is so shocked
\nto have Jesus ask her for water;
\nit is as if you asked to drink from the water bottle
\nof someone with a deadly disease.
\nThis sort of social distancing sees the other,
\nat best, as one beyond my sphere of moral concern
\nand, at worst, as a threat to be contained or eliminated.
\nIt is a phenomenon that is still with us today,
\nmanifest in divisions of race and economic class,
\nof nations and generations.
\nWe see it when people act as if
\nthe pain and struggle of those who are different
\nmust be kept at a distance,
\nlest they infect us.<\/p>\n

What do these two kinds of social distancing
\nhave to do with each other?
\nThe first sort is a necessary and life-saving measure
\nto slow the progress of this disease.
\nBut the second sort of social distancing,
\nthe kind that separated Jews and Samaritans,
\nthe kind that separates races and classes in our own day,
\nrather than being a life-saving measure,
\nis a death-dealing way of life.
\nIt is death-dealing to those we keep at a distance
\nbecause it seeks to make us immune to their struggles
\nand deaf to their cries of suffering.
\nIt is death-dealing to us as well,
\nbecause it requires us to harden our hearts,
\nto deny any natural compassion for
\nand solidarity with our fellow human beings.
\nIt makes us less human,
\nless fully alive with the love that is God.<\/p>\n

Jesus breaks through
\nthis death-dealing social distancing
\nby the simple act of asking
\nthe Samaritan woman for a drink of water.
\nJesus bridges the social distance
\nbetween Jew and Samaritan,
\nbreaking down the dividing wall
\nthat separated them,
\nso that he can offer her the water of eternal life.
\nHe does this not only for the Samaritan woman
\nbut for all of us who were far from God through sin,
\nour hearts hardened to both God and neighbor.
\nPaul writes in today\u2019s second reading,
\n\u201cwhile we were still sinners Christ died for us.\u201d
\nIn Jesus Christ, God has opened his heart to us
\nand crossed the distance separating us,
\nand he calls us to do the same.<\/p>\n

So we can distinguish between
\nthe social distancing that we must undertake
\nin these extraordinary circumstances
\nand the social distancing that we must overcome
\nby throwing caution to the wind
\nand stepping across the dividing lines
\nof race and class and age and nationality.
\nLent is a time to examine our consciences
\nand return to the Lord;
\nthis public health crisis also calls for us
\nto examine our consciences.
\nI may be confident that I am healthy enough
\nto carry on my life as usual
\nand run the risk of getting sick with Covid-19,
\nbut do I spare a thought for the elderly
\nor the physically frail person
\nwith whom I come in contact
\nand whom I might infect?
\nI may feel a sense of relief
\nat the closing my children\u2019s school
\nas a measure to protect them from infection,
\nbut do I spare a thought for
\nthe single working parent who will be left
\nwithout childcare if the schools close?
\nI may not worry about my ability
\nto receive excellent medical care
\nshould I fall ill,
\nbut do I spare a thought for the uninsured
\nor for those in medically underserved areas?
\nThe death-dealing social distancing
\nthat runs throughout our society
\nmakes it easy to think only of ourselves
\nand to make ourselves blind and deaf
\nto those who are most vulnerable.<\/p>\n

Our Catholics tradition calls us to care
\nnot only for our individual well-being,
\nbut for the common good of all people.
\nNow is the acceptable time to embrace that tradition.
\nIt is not only prudent that we adopt practices
\nof physical social distancing in order to slow
\nthe spread of a potentially deadly disease,
\nbut it is something that love demands.
\nAnd it is imperative that we
\nwho are followers of Jesus
\nreject the social distancing that blinds us
\nto the needs of those most vulnerable.
\nMoses struck the rock in the desert
\nwith his wooded staff
\nand life-giving water flowed forth.
\nIn this season of Lent,
\nin this time of crisis,
\nmay the wood of the cross
\nstrike our stony hearts
\nso that the life-giving water of God\u2019s love
\nmay flow forth from us
\nto quench the thirst
\nof those most in need.
\nAnd may God have mercy on us all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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