The Sacrament of Desire. Brief Contribution to Think about Access to the Sacraments in Times of Social, Preventive and Mandatory Isolation by COVID-19

Abstract

Due to the Preventive and Mandatory Social Isolation, because of COVID-19, the temples had to close their doors and many priests began to celebrate masses online and, with them, the practice of “spiritual communion” reappeared. In this text we propose to briefly review this category to replace it with another more present in the early Church and in the first Christians: “the sacrament of desire”. The explanation will be from documents of the Magisterium of the Church, especially conciliar, valuing both texts and contexts, which allow us to delve into history and experience rather than in rigid formulations.