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Archbishop Timothy Cardinal Dolan livestreamed Easter Sunday Mass from a near-empty St. Patrick’s Cathedral — joking that his elderly mom was having a tipple while watching from home.

Dolan praised the technology that allowed him to share the key mass even during the coronavirus lockdown, before stressing that he didn’t want congregants getting “too comfortable” in only watching from home.

“One lady I know very well told me, ‘You know, it’s not all that bad watching Sunday Mass on TV. I even have a Bloody Mary while I’m watching,” he said early in his sermon.

“Come on now, mom. That’s not the way to do it,” he joked of his 92-year-old mother, Shirley Dolan.

Dolan, 70, paused with a big grin — but his joke was met with complete silence in the empty Cathedral that most years would have completely packed-out pews.

The Archbishop used that emptiness as the theme for his sermon — saying it was fitting given that Easter revolves around Jesus’ empty tomb.

“We hear plenty about emptiness these days, thanks to the dreaded pandemic,” he said.

“Empty dinner tables for Passover and Easter because family and friends can’t get together. Empty schools and factories, restaurants, roads and airplanes. Empty wallets, empty bank accounts, empty chairs at home, where those we cherished used to sit with us. Empty churches. Empty lives,” he said.

Instead, he said, “Easter morning is about fullness, not emptiness. Fullness of light and triumph, and good and life.”

“Emptiness might be a blessing, not a curse,” he insisted, ending his sermon with a message of hope.

“The dramatic, overwhelming emptiness of Good Friday afternoon gives way to the empty tomb and the fullness of Easter glory.”