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Covid-19: parishes prepare for the midnight mass marathon under health constraints

2020-12-23T19:01:51.093Z


In order to avoid those left behind, they will multiply the celebrations, if possible in larger rooms.


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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Source: lefigaro

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