Jeanie Hannaman

By Father Raymond J. de Souza, EWTN News - While public gathering for worship and prayer may be canceled, worship and prayer are not canceled. To the contrary, they should be intensified… That’s not just a scriptural reality: “Pray constantly”… “from the rising of the sun to its setting the name of the Lord is to be praised”… It’s also a civic reality in the United States. President Donald Trump declared Sunday, March 15, a national day of prayer, quoting the Scriptures: “Casting all your care upon him, for he careth for you”… and “For with God nothing shall be impossible”…

By Msgr. Charles Pope, March 15, 2020 - Since the children have flesh and blood, [Jesus] too shared in their humanity so that by his death he might destroy him who holds the power of death—that is, the devil—and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death (Heb. 2:14-15)… in the face of this most recent global panic about a relatively strong virus, we need also to ponder the literal meaning of this text. Whether you are of the view that this is an extreme threat that requires dramatic measures or you think the matter is exaggerated and the measures are too severe, it is clear that the fear of death has seized large numbers throughout the world.