Like many others, I went to the designated building.<\/p>\n
I joined the line to enter the building.<\/p>\n
As we filed in, I talked with people, exchanging pleasantries about daily life.<\/p>\n
An authorized person extended a welcome to me, making sure to know me by name.<\/p>\n
I took my place.<\/p>\n
Later, another authorized person discussed what was about to happen and what they were going to give me.<\/p>\n
This person made sure to get my consent before giving me anything.<\/p>\n
This person gave me something.<\/p>\n
This person directed me to my seat and told me to wait a while before leaving.<\/p>\n
I waited a while and then I left.<\/p>\n
What I provide here is a bare bones description of what happened when I went for my COVID vaccination.\u00a0 It also provides a bare-bones description of a Eucharistic liturgy.<\/p>\n
I receive Communion so that I may be more alive, more truly myself, and more at the service of others.<\/p>\n
I receive my vaccination so that I may be more alive and more truly myself\u2014freed eventually from the masks and the distancing\u2014and so that I may be at the service of others by becoming one less vector of infection in their lives.\u00a0 They too may move toward being more alive and more truly themselves.<\/p>\n
Eucharistic celebration is never a self-contained affair.\u00a0 Neither is vaccination.<\/p>\n
Eucharist implies and requires a discipline before and after its celebration until all are one in God.<\/p>\n
Especially in a time when COVID is still on the rampage, the desire for health implicit in seeking vaccination requires a discipline before and after its reception until all can be free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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