Social distancing
Most of the readings for the Easter Vigil are very long, so I used to choose few. One that never made the cut was the difficult passage, Baruch 3:9-15, 32-4:4. It is in praise of Wisdom who is personified as a woman, as in much of the Wisdom literature elsewhere in the Bible. God alone has access to Wisdom and shares her with us through the Law. By wanting what God wants we come to Wisdom.
"She has appeared on earth and moved among people....All who cling to her will live."
As we try to live cut off from other people, we ask God for Wisdom to help us empathize with those sick and dying of the virus, while trying ourselves to deal with depression, loneliness and simple cabin fever.
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