Our church reopened for Mass this weekend. Max. 50 at each Mass, our Parish Priest is going to provide an extra Saturday Mass as we had more people phoning to register than available spaces.
Yesterday we stood in a socially distanced queue to enter church, everyone over 5 years old has to wear a mask. We have an electronic temperature scanner on entry, automatic hand sanitisers, volunteers to check registration and direct you to your designated seat.
Reader on altar reads with mask on, not touching the Lectern, priest dons mask to distribute Holy Communion at arms length.
It's Mass, but not as we know it!
I am one of the Covid clean volunteers who stays behind to sanitise church after Mass. We are lucky to have a good group of around 30 volunteers who are enabling our Parish Priest to provide four weekend Masses, plus daily Mass.
The online Masses were a Godsend during lockdown, and many are continuing for housebound and shielding parishioners, but it is quite special and emotional to be able to return to 'real' Mass and receive Holy Communion again.
God bless and protect us all.?
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