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 In reflecting upon the “consequences” of the COVID-19 outbreak throughout the world, one that readily comes to mind for me is the adaptations we as the Church are making by means of technology. In fact, the restrictions placed upon us by civil authorities has moved the Church to use what technology we already have at our disposal

Father Bryan Ernest, pastor at St. Luke’s Church and St. Luke’s School in Ogallala, calls her the “last of the Mohicans.”     Although she’s not a Native American, the “Mohican” Father Ernest is referring to is Sister Loretta Krajewski, O.S.U., principal/head teacher at St. Luke’s School.   

If there’s one thing that most quilters and seamstresses have in common, it’s that they have a stash—not a stash of cash, a stash of fabric. So when it comes to filling a need during a crisis or a disaster, they are usually some of the first to step up to a challenge.   

It’s Good Friday. It feels like Good Friday. After several weeks without our usual social interactions and without our gathering for the celebration of Sunday Masses and the other sacraments, it has felt like Good Friday now for quite some time.

When I was a little girl we played, "Here is the church, here's the steeple, open the doors and see all the people." How surreal it is today for our priests to not see their people. Priests, in not only our diocese, but throughout the country, are offering Masses digitally—some videotaped in churches, some in small chapels.

Father Jim Golka, pastor of St. Mary's Cathedral in Grand Island received this letter from one of the children who was preparing along with her mother, brother, and two sisters to be baptized this Easter. Listen to what a 9-year old has to say to us: