How to accommodate two thousand people when there is only room for a thousand?
This is the dilemma of Christmas Mass for Father Daniel Brouard-Derval, 60, parish priest of Saint-Orens in the suburbs of Toulouse.
It is also the puzzle of all the priests of France.
Sanitary standards require three free chairs between each faithful and the non-occupation of every other row, so you have to push the walls.
The problem arises all over the world - in Belgium, for example, Masses are limited to 15 people… -, the Vatican has admittedly authorized priests to exceptionally celebrate four Masses each on that day, but priests do not have four arms. and surfaces do not multiply.
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It takes imagination:
"We first asked a town hall to be able to celebrate in a large room,"
explains Father Brouard-Derval.
The mayor agreed.
But after studying the surfaces, we realized that this did not solve all the problems.
So we multiplied
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