Panaji: For the first time during a pandemic, Mass Christmas midnight will be full, and open to all loyal when following a Covid protocol.
The pastor increases the number of masses on the feast and holds additional services in the church and the chapel on the feast and installs additional screens outside and in other spaces available in the church to accommodate as much as possible.
Most of the church gets rid of restrictions followed by the last Christmas from making mass-worshipers, allowing only two of the family and insist on the previous registration.
In the SE Cathedral, the Mother Church of Goah’s Agossic, Archbishop Filipe Neri Ferrao will celebrate Mass Midnight which will be a direct telecast throughout the state.
One of the largest churches in Asia, the cathedral will accommodate believers inside and around the church with a specially arranged screen and arrangement made outside for those who do not fit in it, said the priest of the Rosario Oliveira parish.
“The Christmas service is open to all the first coming, the basis first.
We have canceled additional volunteers to defend the SOP and Sanitisation for loyal.
We have also prepared masks for those who might appear for services without masks,” he said.
This year, the parish did not expect foreign tourists to join the service due to low entry.
Cultural program after Christmas Mass is also locked up after a pandemic.
St Alex Parish in Calangute has more than double the masses for faithers compared to pre-pandemic times on December 24 and December 25 in the church.
Services will also be held in the chapel in Khobrawaddo and Saunta Vaddo without previous reservations.
It also tightens the celebration of his family’s day, holding the samudai-wise celebration instead.
In Paroda, the midnight mass and morning mass in the church and the chapel open for all parishes without limitation, but while following all SOPs.
“At present, the church is open everywhere.
I have watched the news, and if there are restrictions brought, we must announce it as soon as possible.
We can only hope and pray,” said Paroki Priest FR George Ratos.
In the church conception that is immaculate in Panaji, the mass of additional Christmas will be held.
“Because we cannot accommodate all our parishes, we have made arrangements to accommodate people in our hall, lobby and outside the church where the screen is installed,” said Paroki FR Walter de Sa.