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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. The pandemic has had an immense impact on everyone.
Essential workers were weighed down by the constant stress of being out in the world exposed to COVID-19.
Parents juggled working from home while shepherding their children through virtual classrooms. Bar employees were laid off entirely some haven’t worked in the industry in a year. And many senior citizens most at risk from the virus sequestered themselves in their own homes.
It was a trying year for graduates both those who began college and those who entered the workforce for the first time and business owners who were left to make a new normal for themselves and their customers.
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A priest uses his thumb to draw a cross of ashes on the forehead of a parishioner during an Ash Wednesday Mass at the Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul in Philadelphia. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Christians in Philadelphia gathered to celebrate Ash Wednesday, a mass that launches the season of Lent, when the faithful traditionally sacrifice something for the 40 days leading up to Easter.
Even though the past year of the coronavirus pandemic has caused many to sacrifice a lot already, observant Christians will still live a little leaner in observance of Lent.
“Lent is about preparation for Easter,” said Leon Burrows of Mount Airy, who came to the Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul for the noon mass. “For Christians, thinking about Christ giving up his life, everything else is in perspective. One more thing for Lent.”
Like so many of us, the past year has forced Bernie Reppert of Cornwall to hunker down and ride out the pandemic. The few exceptions to the 93-year-old’s stay-at-home routine:
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