What if you can’t use a computer to learn about what your parish is doing during the coronavirus pandemic? There’s always telephone, television and mail.
Bishop McManus has asked that church bells be rung at noon on Easter Sunday, in solidarity with other churches, as a reminder of our faith and a call to prayer.
In consideration of health care workers in the Diocese of Worcester who are on the front line of this pandemic a dispensation from Fasting and Abstainence is hereby granted to all Catholics in health care professions on Good Friday, April 10, 2020.
As turbulent as things are with this pandemic, “I’m very much at peace and feel incredibly blessed … that God has brought me to this point,” said John Larochelle, a seminarian in the Diocese of Worcester.
Nineteen priests have been trained to be designated ministers to the sick, according to Msgr. James P. Moroney, director of the Office for Divine Worship.
“This time of pandemic must also be a time of prayer,” Bishop McManus said in a letter to priests asking them to invite parishioners to a new prayer initiative.
