While few at Grace Church, aka St. Dysfunction, are sufficiently forward-looking to recognize it, there are more COVD-19 problems in store for the parish.
Consider the theory that the pandemic will die down as the summer months approach due to increasing humidity. While there’s ample reason to be skeptical, if it’s true, the news carries with it some delayed bad news, which is that Shrine Mont likely will be closed. That’s because if the increased humidity of summer discourages the virus, the decreased humidity of fall and increased dust and pollen occurring at the time of Shrine Mont will surely bring a resurgence. Same for Thanksgiving, Christmas, Epiphany and Easter. In short, until a vaccine is developed, this is the new normal.
So, what’s left of Grace Church and its deplorable ethics should probably be realistic and recognize that the earlier predictions that The Episcopal Church will have no Sunday worshipers in 30 years no longer holds true at Grace Church. My prediction is that it’s got 5-10 years max. And given the hypocrisy and misconduct I have seen in the parish, the day Grace closes won’t be a day too soon.