Lenten Season Amidst the Pandemic

As social distancing, home quarantine, and cancellation of mass gatherings have become a must in the past couple of weeks, Catholics around the world have been experiencing an unusual observance of the Lenten season. With the churches resorting to social and mass media, the question of how this affects one's faith-life cannot be ignored.

During Lenten Season, Catholics enter into a period of fasting, almsgiving, and praying in preparation for the Holy Week where Christ's passion, death, and resurrection are remembered and celebrated. Easter Sunday—besides its grandiose traditional activities and elaborate liturgy—is the most important feast day in the Christian calendar, celebrated by Roman Catholics as well as other Christian denominations. It is a season of reflecting on one's own beliefs, morals, and piety. It strengthens each and every Christian's conviction that Christ is alive. However, 2020 has been a crazy year since its first days and topping the list is the COVID-19 pandemic that has put the world at a standstill.

The covid-19 may have halt us but we can still do something about and that we can still do what we are about to do. We just need to be safe and follow the rules and regulations so that everyone will be the same as always.

Reference:

https://ph.asiatatler.com/society/lenten-season-2020-amid-covid-19

https://www.upbeacon.com/article/2020/04/lenten-season-perseveres-despite-coronavirus