I attended Mass in person this afternoon for the first time since early March. Very moving... [View all]

It was an outdoor Mass held in a field adjacent to a nearby parish, not my own parish.
The altar was under a temporary roofed, open-air structure.
Several parishes were involved, at least two priests and a deacon presided.
Congregants brought their own chairs or blankets, and were arranged in family-groups for the most part.
Covid protocols of distancing and facial covering were widely, though not entirely, observed.
A woman I did not know saw me, with my Handicane, and offered use of her chair to me.
She accompanied me up the sloped walkway to the lawn under a tree, and settled me in.
She then arranged that someone would bring me Communion, when the time came.

I found the Mass itself and the whole situation very moving, brought me to silent tears at times.
So very uplifting to be among these worshippers I did not know, all there to once again give praise and thanksgiving.
In a way it's too bad, I/we had to wait until late September for this beautiful Mass, with outdoor season almost over.
So happy I was able to be there today.
Renews hope for better days ahead.