Easter services, celebrations across Canada adapt to COVID-19 restrictions

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A new online survey conducted this week by the Angus Reid Institute found 25 per cent of respondents who identified as Christian, Jewish or Muslim planned to follow a religious service online. Nine per cent said they would pray with family or others over a video chat

Another seven per cent of participants said they would use an app for prayer or meditation, and two per cent said they would talk to a religious leader on the phone.

Liturgies, masses and a vigil will be livestreamed during Holy Week, though the commemoration of the Last Supper did not include the customary foot-washing ceremony. “Although we are asked to keep physical distance from one another, and public gathering places are closed for the most part, our hearts and our Church community remain radically open to faith, compassion and loving solidarity.”

“They’re so distracted by the stress and anxiety and struggle that this pandemic has brought, where they don’t feel like we’re moving towards a moment of celebration,” he said. “But even in those moments, let’s remember those truths that Easter tells us – that the worst thing is not the last thing, that love is better than fear, that life does go on and we’re not alone.”Easter services in the Archdiocese of Toronto are being livestreamed from a virtually empty cathedral where only a handful of priests are on-hand to say mass, said Cardinal Thomas Collins, archbishop of Toronto and a high-ranking member of the Roman Catholic Church.

 

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