Vatican City, Apr 17, 2020 / 03:00 am
With millions of Catholics dependent on livestreamed Masses, there is a danger that we will lose sight of the communal dimension of Christian life, Pope Francis said at his morning Mass Friday.
Reflecting on the day's Gospel reading (John 21:1-14), in which the risen Christ invites his disciples to eat breakfast, the pope said April 17 that all Christians should seek a "daily familiarity with the Lord."
This familiarity, he said, is always communal in nature.
"Yes, it is intimate, it is personal but in community," he explained. "A familiarity without community, a familiarity without bread, a familiarity without the Church, without the people, without the sacraments is dangerous."