Joseph Dutan recalls how he lifted the chalice in the empty church and felt a flood of emotions. 'Sometimes I catch myself, I'm like 'Why am I losing hope and I'm preaching about hope?'' A young priest loses mentor, then his father - both to coronavirus.
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He prayed for the soul of the Rev. Jorge Ortiz, his mentor and the first Catholic priest in the United States to die from the novel coronavirus. He prayed that he could console a community that could not gather to mourn Ortiz’ passing.“God,” he prayed, “I’ll follow my vocation, but please take care of my dad.”It was not the first time Dutan had faced death. He has officiated at funerals.
Parishioners are unemployed. Others are undocumented -- “They come from Ecuador, Mexico, the Dominican Republic, Panama, from all over the world” -- and many of them live in cramped apartments that don’t allow for social distancing, rendering them vulnerable.Through the crisis, he has advised the church youth group on Zoom, celebrated Mass in English and Spanish on Facebook via livestream, and taken calls from worried parishioners.
One day, a priest came to his hospital room. He said: “`Joseph, who said you’re going to die? Only the Lord has the last word.’ ... I remember, just those words echoing every time,” Dutan said. “That’s when I started seeing things in a different way.”
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