Religious leaders reflect on Lent in a time of COVID.
In preparation for Lent, old blessed palms are burned and their ashes used on Ash Wednesday.Rev. Alexander Santora/For the Jersey Journal
“Over the past two years of pandemic, for so many, homes have become also places of work, and family relationships may well have changed as parents became teachers, the house or apartment became an office or a studio, or workshop, and families felt a physical closeness, unlike before,” reflected Bishop Gregory Studerus, Catholic Episcopal Vicar for Hudson County.
“Last Lent, we were a people living in desolation and isolation, perhaps thinking of our own demise,” she said. “This Lent, we can give a ministry of presence to others. We can have a desire of hope and personal growth, emptying the baggage that weigh us down. Halloran taught religion to St. Peter’s Prep students in Jersey City for two years and then chose to spend his third year of apostolic ministry at the Kino Border Initiative in Nogales, Mexico. He has seen first-hand enormous suffering of migrants who simply want a better life for themselves and their children.
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