Diocese of Westminster Annual Repor t & Accounts 2020
Year in Review FOR MANY CATHOLICS, their parish Church is the centre of their spiritual lives and attending Sunday Mass and weekday parish activities are a key part of their routines. When the first COVID-19 lockdown was brought in, and public communal worship banned for the first time in living memory, parish priests, staff, and volunteers worked quickly to get live streaming of the Mass up and running so the faithful could pray along at home. When churches were permitted to reopen, parishioners responded generously to the pleas for volunteers to clean the churches and steward public worship, creating some of the safest public spaces in Britain during the pandemic.
Westminster Cathedral reopens with Covid-secure measures in place for private prayer on 15 June 2020 after first lockdown.
When churches were allowed to re-open for congregational worship, additional measures were implemented to ensure the faithful could receive Holy Communion safely.
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