The Awakening of Faith and Humanity
The Covid-19 pandemic is like a way of the cross to humanity, hard, but it must be endured. The pandemic has also become a lonely Saturday.
Pope Francis blesses attendees as he celebrates Easter Sunday Mass on April 12, 2020 behind closed doors at St. Peter\'s Basilica in The Vatican, during the lockdown aimed at curbing the spread of the COVID-19 infection, caused by the novel coronavirus.
The road to death is a long march beset with all evils, and the heart fails little by little at each new terror. The bones rebel at each step. The mind sets up its own bitter resistance. And to what end? — Katherine Porter in her novel ”Pale Horse, Pale Rider” (1939)
Referring to the Book of Revelation 6:8, which describes the appearance of a pale horse that brings death, she describes the condition in facing the Spanish flu pandemic in 1918. Her expression reflects people\'s anxiety in facing the uncertainty and death caused by the pandemic. It is like our current anxiety.