That's the Kind of Courage That Got Them Through the Blitz!

CNA Staff, Apr 23, 2020 / 03:00 pm MT (CNA).- English Catholics must avoid “any sense of self-pity” over church closures, Cardinal Vincent Nichols said at a Mass honoring workers in hospitals and care homes.

Speaking via livestream from an empty Westminster Cathedral in London April 23, Cardinal Vincent Nichols, who is Archbishop of Westminster and head of the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales, paid tribute to the “quiet heroes” on the front line of the coronavirus crisis. 

“For most of us, our part in this effort is so different,” the cardinal said. “Yes, deprivations are placed on us, including not being able, as yet, to return to our churches and sacraments, a deprivation we feel very deeply indeed. Yet we beware of any sense of self-pity as we play our part in these life-saving disciplines.”
 ." “We must have eyes to see Him in every place, in every moment."

Except in Church, of course, where God actually IS.