Mass & COVID

[mrschavez2124]

Hi!

So I'm currently in RCIA, and I've never actually got a chance to attend mass in person. I've watched them online, but our parish is only allowing registered parishioners to attend mass.
Is there any way I can still experience the entirety of mass? It just doesn't feel the same because I'm not *there*, and as someone who really wants to fully immerse myself in my faith, it's been really hard to not be able to go into mass and learn by experience.

Do you have any suggestions or alternatives besides just watching it on a stream? I know it may be kind of a fruitless question, but it doesn't hurt to ask!

 

[Gnarwhal]

Hi!

So I'm currently in RCIA, and I've never actually got a chance to attend mass in person. I've watched them online, but our parish is only allowing registered parishioners to attend mass.
Is there any way I can still experience the entirety of mass? It just doesn't feel the same because I'm not *there*, and as someone who really wants to fully immerse myself in my faith, it's been really hard to not be able to go into mass and learn by experience.

Do you have any suggestions or alternatives besides just watching it on a stream? I know it may be kind of a fruitless question, but it doesn't hurt to ask!

I would call your parish and ask whether you can register to attend. As far as I know, no parish is refusing nonmembers, they're just requiring that all attendees register for "safety" (to comply with government mandates) in case someone in attendance turns out to be infected. I would call your parish office and ask whether you can attend or not, if they say yes, just make sure you know what all of the extra COVID rules are.

Like with any Mass, COVID or not, you wouldn't go forward for Holy Communion since you're a catechumen, and beyond that they probably did away with the sign of peace to avoid physical contact, and they're surely spacing everybody out six feet or more.

Good luck!