{"id":7232,"date":"2020-09-08T12:53:22","date_gmt":"2020-09-08T16:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stgenevieve-stmaurice.org\/parish\/?p=7232"},"modified":"2020-09-08T12:53:22","modified_gmt":"2020-09-08T16:53:22","slug":"coming-back-to-mass-a-message-of-encouragement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stgenevieve-stmaurice.org\/parish\/2020\/09\/08\/coming-back-to-mass-a-message-of-encouragement\/","title":{"rendered":"Coming back to Mass, A Message of Encouragement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>As a staff member and parishioner of St. Genevieve-St. Maurice, I wanted to share with you why I felt safe returning to Mass.\u00a0 I was hesitant to come back, until I saw all the measures we are taking to ensure each person is safe. \u00a0Everyone has their own comfort levels and we respect and acknowledge that each person comes from a different health condition. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Why I feel safe:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The Church, the bathrooms and door handles are electro-statically sanitized after every Mass or any other celebration. At the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak our parish purchased special equipment to keep our facilities clean.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>We are blessed with a large Church, which allows for ample room to spread out. <\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Everyone wears a mask.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>There are hand sanitizers throughout the Church and when you first walk into the gathering area.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Parishioners are spaced out to every other pew to keep social distancing. Holy Communion is brought to you, you will stay in your pew to receive Our Lord.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>During this time, we are not using the hymnals. The bulletins now have the readings printed in it, please take one to follow along.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>There is no congregating inside of the Church or gathering area. If you choose to chat with your fellow parishioners, that can be done outside of the Church.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>If you are wanting to ease into coming back to Church, we encourage you to join us for a daily Mass, where there are fewer people.\u00a0 You remain in our prayers &amp; we look forward to seeing you back when you are ready!\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0-Katie<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-7233 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stgenevieve-stmaurice.org\/parish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/lpi...-300x210.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"394\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stgenevieve-stmaurice.org\/parish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/lpi...-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stgenevieve-stmaurice.org\/parish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/lpi....jpg 550w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 394px) 100vw, 394px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a staff member and parishioner of St. Genevieve-St. Maurice, I wanted to share with you why I felt safe returning to Mass.\u00a0 I was hesitant to come back, until I saw all the measures we are taking to ensure each person is safe. \u00a0Everyone has their own comfort levels and we respect and acknowledge&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7233,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7,66,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements","category-community","category-news","category-parish","ctfw-has-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stgenevieve-stmaurice.org\/parish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stgenevieve-stmaurice.org\/parish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stgenevieve-stmaurice.org\/parish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stgenevieve-stmaurice.org\/parish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stgenevieve-stmaurice.org\/parish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stgenevieve-stmaurice.org\/parish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7234,"href":"https:\/\/stgenevieve-stmaurice.org\/parish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7232\/revisions\/7234"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stgenevieve-stmaurice.org\/parish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stgenevieve-stmaurice.org\/parish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stgenevieve-stmaurice.org\/parish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stgenevieve-stmaurice.org\/parish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}