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11 Jun 2023 - Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ (Corpus Christi), Cycle A

Last year I suffered one of the worst burdens of my life: I developed COVID-related vertigo. As soon as I got sick with cold and flu-like symptoms, but before I tested positive, my ears also started to hurt. I’ve never had ear problems before and I wasn’t aware of it being a symptom of COVID. I later learned from an ear, nose, and throat specialist that while it’s not common, there is now research that COVID can infect the inner ear, causing vertigo, tinnitus, and hearing loss. For me, the vertigo started about a week after the other symptoms. If you haven’t ever experienced vertigo before, let me tell you, it’s terrifying. Abraham Lincoln is quoted as saying he had been driven many times to his knees when he had nowhere else to go. I can relate—physically and spiritually. For me, lying down made the spinning worse, but standing up while dizzy is obviously dangerous, so I knelt a lot and held on to the wall. I can’t say this experience taught me about surrender because I really didn’t have a choice—control was thoroughly taken from me. Talk about humbling. While down there in such a state, I naturally held on to Jesus too. I clung to his steady yoke, so he could pull me through.

Authors Jennifer Tomshack

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17 November 2024

Presider’s Chair

\'pri-sīd-ərs 'cher\

Also known as the presidential chair, the seat in a parish church from which the celebrant leads the assembly during Mass. Its meaning derives from the chair, or cathedra in Latin, from which the diocesan bishop presides (from Latin meaning “to protect” or literally “to sit before”). The chair is a liturgical symbol of authority and pastoral leadership.

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