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THOUGHTS FOR THE DAY

Should generosity inspire you to offer your help, please sign up, and provide
your name and availability. Become part of a team to help open up the churches
in your neighbourhood.

As soon as we are all together, we will turn to prayer, it is the moment of hope,
our moment of joy. It is also a moment to take measure of what we have
considered and what is important, - that is, to put on your mask! Your mask,
- even if we keep our two-meter distance, there is always a moment when we
risk crossing it and no longer being sufficiently apart- the mask is important!

Maybe you have noticed that when wearing a mask, we are not too encumbered
to smile. Maybe we have to decide to smile through our mask! Smile through
the mask, because when we smile, our whole face is smiling, our eyes are
smiling. This time of welcoming, when we return to our churches, our parishes,
our missions, our communities…will be an important moment! I am inviting
you to smile, your arms open wide, even if you cannot touch each other, even
if you cannot see each other’s faces. The affection of a smile with open arms
can pass through the mask, through the clothing, across the distance to be a
moment of joy and an encounter with hope.

Collection of texts by the Most Rev. Christian Lépine 94