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What is God saying to the church through this pandemic?

We had planned to meet in Lisbon this year, as we celebrate AFI’s twentieth anniversary from the first meeting at Positano. Then the surprise and tragedy of the Coronavirus obliged us to cancel it. White coats and scientists, intensive care and coffins. So many of them as to necessitate the use of mass graves and military trucks. And burials without funerals... The principal elements and symbols of often empty days and many sleepless nights. Icons of the extent and seriousness of one of the greatest tragedies that our generation has ever suffered or experienced.