wonderful, one of two times a year half the church attends mass...
Posted on 12/05/2020 5:50:13 PM PST by marshmallow
The Mass will be restricted by a mandatory 10 pm curfew in place over the holiday season
Italians will not be able to attend midnight Mass on Christmas Eve, with top health officials cracking down on any conditions that could lead to a potential resurgence in coronavirus cases -- a step that Catholic clergy has supported.
Italy managed to reduce a fall resurgence of cases but is currently suffering record fatalities from COVID-19, reporting 993 deaths on Thursday alone.
Premier Giuseppe Conte announced, then, that the country will enforce strong restrictions over the holiday season, which normally sees extended families gathering under one roof to celebrate. Health experts and policymakers alike remain concerned that a Christmas “as usual” would bring a third surge to Italy, Reuters reported.
“There is still a long way to go out of the pandemic,’’ Conte said. “We must avoid the risk of a third wave that could arrive as early as January. It could be just as violent as the first and the second.”
Junior Health Minister Sandra Zampa said Christmas Eve Mass must end by around 8:30 p.m. so that worshippers can also observe a 10 p.m. curfew, and she discouraged inviting non-family or extended family members for celebrations.
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Ooops....
That’s not going to end well.
You don’t mess with Midnight Mass.
That was the one mass that I always really enjoyed and looked forward to every year while I was a Catholic.
The bishops are a scandal to all the faithful.
Btw, just about the only ones - here, in France, in Italy, anywhere - who are standing up to the government are the Latin mass crowd, both SSPX and FSSP and local Institutes. Novus Ordo? Not so much.
So now they’re trying to scare us about a third wave. There’s always going to be another wave. See how this works?
Italy needs to ban Pope Marx and tear down his walls.
It will actually be a fourth “wave.”
Well, I guees I'll give up on my 25-day St Anthony Christmas Novena.
Hail and blessed be the hour and moment in which the Son
of God was born
of the most pure Virgin Mary,
at midnight, in Bethlehem,
in the piercing cold.
In that hour vouchsafe, O my God,
to hear my prayer and grant my desires,
[State your intention(s) here...]
through the merits of Our Savior, Jesus Christ, and of
His blessed Mother.
Amen.
wonderful, one of two times a year half the church attends mass...
Most Catholic country in the world looks to ban or heavily restrict Christmas services:
https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1367122/cbcp-sets-guidelines-for-simbang-gabi-amid-covid-19
Next year’s Sinulog (like Carnival and Mardi Gras, third latest in the world already cancelled.)
“Sinulog annual activities are cancelled and deviated. The fluvial and solemn foot processions of fiesta celebration are cancelled. The Sinulog grand parade will be done virtually.”
IATF Authorities have already banned street carolling, mall sales and mass gatherings
“That was the one mass that I always really enjoyed and looked forward to every year while I was a Catholic.”
So you’re not Catholic anymore? I haven’t missed one Christmas Mass since I was born. There are 2 important masses Christians “ought” to not miss: it’s Good Friday and Christmas.
Nope.
I left the Catholic religion, found Jesus, tried going back and it just didn’t work out so I ended up in an Evangelical church.
What do you do now for Christmas?
The Christmas eve candlelight service at church.
Fock you !
DU is missing their resident potty mouth.
They called to ask you to come back.
It’s time you dropped the facade of being a FReeper anyway.
Certainly they provided the science that stated mass at 9pm was less contagious than at 12am?
Oh, they did not? That’s because this is all designed to break peoples spirit. Broken people are much easier to control and herd along.
Which way, western man?
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