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Dear friend, Cloister or quarantine? Throughout this craziness I've been trying day-by-day to see this as a time of cloister to be spent strengthening bonds with my wife and children and turning to God in prayer. But, there are certainly days when I feel stuck against my will - stuck at home, stuck trying to figure out what God wants of The Newman Idea, etc.

Dear friend, Indeed, the Lord heaped blessings on me and mine in this most unusual time, which seems fitting for the God we serve, as He is want to heap blessings upon us in the most unusual of ways. And so it came to pass that during Holy Week, with the blessing of an unusual amount of time together, my family watched the Passion accounts of all 4 “Gospels According to Netflix” (i.e. the new movies that do each Gospel, narrated line by line). And my formerly Southern Baptist heart was strangely warm

I hope you had a blessed Easter, and Christ has etched himself into your heart, the depth of your being (Proverbs 4:23). I wanted to share with you something personal . I know that now many of you are sheltered in place – if you are like me, it is surreal as spring is blooming all around us, beckoning us to get out congregate, and yet we are distant – watchful of the person close to us, washing our hands, worried if “I might be next”.