Without Church

St. Patrick, pray for us and for the whole world.
Even though his father was a deacon and his grandfather a priest, Patrick says that he wasn't a very religious child.  At 16 he was kidnapped from his family estate on the west coast of Britain and sold into slavery in Ireland.  He was made to look after some sheep.  Here all by himself without church, Patrick turned to God.  He tells us "Even when I was staying out in the woods or on the mountain, I used to rise before dawn for prayer in snow or frost or rain...."
With our churches closed because of the "virus" we can still grow in our relationship with God through prayer on our own.