COVID-19 JOURNAL #2 "THE CHURCH HAS LEFT THE BUILDING"
Title
COVID-19 JOURNAL #2 "THE CHURCH HAS LEFT THE BUILDING"
Creator
Lfj Gill
Text
“The Church has left the Building”
It is one of the blessings of this enforced hiatus from the external world that we get to realize more vitally how we are together in spirit. It's beautiful to have a physical church in which to come together to worship. After all, Christ taught and worshiped in the temple and in synagogues. But he also taught and worshiped in corn fields and olive groves, on dusty roads and on mountains… The Spirit of God is not limited by our time, space and physical edifices. Nor by our ideas and rituals. In the Spirit, we are together—wherever we may be physically.
Our Vicar counseled us early in the pandemic to “take this time to grow deeper in your faith.”
Having to stay home for weeks, divested of the noise and frenzy of the world, has given us an opportunity for solitude, silent communion and quiet prayer—an opportunity to deepen our individual relationship with God.
We will be all the richer for this experience when we come back together in person in our places of worship.
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Corona Virus Journal for RI Historical Society Covid-19 Archives
Journal #2 “The Church has left the Building”
—Lfj Gill
It is one of the blessings of this enforced hiatus from the external world that we get to realize more vitally how we are together in spirit. It's beautiful to have a physical church in which to come together to worship. After all, Christ taught and worshiped in the temple and in synagogues. But he also taught and worshiped in corn fields and olive groves, on dusty roads and on mountains… The Spirit of God is not limited by our time, space and physical edifices. Nor by our ideas and rituals. In the Spirit, we are together—wherever we may be physically.
Our Vicar counseled us early in the pandemic to “take this time to grow deeper in your faith.”
Having to stay home for weeks, divested of the noise and frenzy of the world, has given us an opportunity for solitude, silent communion and quiet prayer—an opportunity to deepen our individual relationship with God.
We will be all the richer for this experience when we come back together in person in our places of worship.
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Corona Virus Journal for RI Historical Society Covid-19 Archives
Journal #2 “The Church has left the Building”
—Lfj Gill
Date
2002-05-12
Language
English
Location
Hopkinton, RI
Description
Virtual Faith Community
Collection
Citation
Lfj Gill, “COVID-19 JOURNAL #2 "THE CHURCH HAS LEFT THE BUILDING",” Rhode Island COVID-19 Archive, accessed October 5, 2024, https://ricovidarchive.org/index.php/items/show/291.
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