People want to celebrate together for religious and social reasons, but most understand the restrictions are necessary for the greater good of stopping transmission of the virus, said Hasenack, a Catholic priest at St. Elizabeth’s in Sidney, Our Lady of the Assumption in Saanichton and St. Jean-Baptiste in Victoria. “We don’t need to go to church to celebrate our faith, you can do it wherever you are whether it’s a young person helping in Tim Hortons or McDonald’s, they can can communicate joy to people they serve,” said Hasenack, who is known as Father Rolf. He said the original meaning of crisis was “the turning point in a disease” and that the pandemic has also provided us with a turning point or “opportunity” to do and see good, find new ways to communicate and support one another, and discover or rediscover what is essential in our lives.