{"id":13232,"date":"2020-03-26T11:46:53","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T15:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/?p=13232"},"modified":"2020-03-26T11:46:53","modified_gmt":"2020-03-26T15:46:53","slug":"works-of-mercy-during-a-time-of-social-distancing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2020\/03\/works-of-mercy-during-a-time-of-social-distancing.html","title":{"rendered":"Works of Mercy During a Time of Social Distancing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

I tried to say something useful for the Catholic Herald:<\/p>\n

The corporal works of mercy \u2013 feeding the hungry, visiting the sick and so on \u2013 are insistently physical. It\u2019s right there in the name! How can we perform corporal<\/em> works of mercy when we\u2019re all supposed to stand six feet away from each other?<\/p>\n

Some of the modifications needed to perform works of mercy are fairly simple, albeit sad: \u2018\u2018visiting\u2019\u2019 the sick by phone or computer, or handing out to-go meals to hungry people instead of hosting them for a communal meal. Some are both physical and urgent: the Red Cross has announced a \u2018\u2018severe blood shortage\u2019\u2019 and needs people who can donate blood. But as restrictions on travel and gatherings tighten, we may also need to organise our mercy by different principles.<\/p>\n

One of these principles is: serve through networks that we never expected to be communities of charity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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I tried to say something useful for the Catholic Herald: The corporal works of mercy \u2013 feeding the hungry, visiting the sick and so on \u2013 are insistently physical. It\u2019s right there in the name! How can we perform corporal works of mercy when we\u2019re all supposed to stand six feet away from each other? 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