2020 Year in Review
The pandemic led parishes to celebrate special liturgies, such as this Aug. 27 special Holy Hour at Saint Therese of the Child Jesus Parish to pray for the health and wellbeing of the people who work on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic. As with all liturgies during this time, social distancing measures were observed.
By Marie Mischel
Intermountain Catholic
SALT LAKE CITY When the novel coronavirus struck Utah in March, Bishop Oscar A. Solis implemented emergency measures in the Diocese of Salt Lake City, issuing a dispensation from the obligation to attend Sunday Mass, suspending public worship in Catholic churches, canceling events such as the annual diocesan Lenten retreat, and instructing the Utah Catholic Schools to provide remote instruction rather than onsite.
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FARR WEST â âHoly crap,â muttered Chris Maag as he looked over the contents of an envelope Roy High School Principal Matt Williams left on his doorstep Monday afternoon.
His wife, Angie Maag, teared up, speechless. âI donât even know what to say. Please tell everyone how grateful we are.â
Chris Maag, a history teacher at Roy High School, announced he had been diagnosed with testicular cancer in November.
â2020 continues to throw wrinkles into our familyâs experiences,â Maag said in a video posted to Facebook and sent to his students on Nov. 15. âI havenât been at school because I had to go to the doctor and they told me I have cancer, and that sucks.â
Last year, at Christmastime, then-12-year-old Wyatt Page of Eagle Mountain knew that he would soon be passing away.
However, rather than focusing on his own trials, Wyatt was busy worrying about how his parents would spend their time after he was gone and trying to make a difference in the lives of other children like him â children battling cancer.
Wyatt passed away on Jan. 14, 2020, after battling ependymoma brain cancer. Twenty-two months before that, a tennis ball-sized tumor was found in his brain. During those 22 months, Wyatt underwent five surgeries and 96 radiation treatments.
In September 2019, it was discovered that Wyattâs cancer had metastasized.