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Ministry during a plague
Michael Coren: We listen, we counsel, we simply be there. Because beyond the daily realities of food shortage, unemployment and poor health is the acid cloud of loneliness.
Rev. Michael Coren is ordained in the Anglican Church of Canada.
“God of all consolation, in your unending love and mercy you turn the darkness of death into the dawn of new life. Show compassion to your people in their sorrow.” This I prayed aloud in an apartment bedroom, wishing I could remove my mask or hug the people around me. Because here was a woman in her last few hours of life, and her son had telephoned me and asked for a final visit. But the mask had to remain, the embraces couldn’t take place, and it’s only under the most extraordinary circumstances that I’m even allowed to meet with people, and then standing well apart. I’m allowed these occasional exceptions because I’m a cleric, ordained in the Anglican Church. Less than two years on the job, very ordinary,
An unabashed activist, the Rev. Tom Goldsmith battled for the climate, immigrants and LGBTQ individuals and against nukes and the LDS Church’s Main Street Plaza.
The Rev. Tom Goldsmith, longtime pastor at Salt Lake City's First Unitarian Church who became a minister of sorts to Utah's political left, is retiring.
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The Rev. Fabian Fabian Arias offers a blessing over the head of a family member after leading an in-home funeral service for Graciela Ruiz Martinez who died of COVID-19, in the Queens borough of New York. For the first time during the pandemic, Arias performed funeral services in private homes â donning a surgical mask and gloves to join the mourning families, starting that weekend.Â
John Minchillo I AP
By LUIS ANDRES HENAO, DAVID CRARY and MARIAM FAM
Associated Press Mar 17, 2021