The coronavirus continues to spread throughout Spain. Given the grave responsibility of preventing the spread of the disease, the Episcopal Conference proposes protocols, advising maximum prudence in their application and that each Diocese will have to concretize.
A continuous evaluation of these protocols will be necessary to assess their implementation and their modification in future situations, taking into account the health authority's decisions at any given time.
At present, in this transitional phase, the Episcopal Conference dispenses the faithful from the precept of participating in Sunday Mass and suggests that persons at risk, the elderly and the disabled, as well as the elderly and the elderly in general, should not participate in Sunday Mass. patientsto consider the possibility of staying at home and to continue to Holy Mass online by the media.
After months without being able to express our faith as a community in churches, we want to gradually recover the normality of ecclesial life. For this reason The Episcopal Conference proposes people who come to the church for celebrations or to attend the personal prayerThe company's employees must do so according to the guidelines, subject to the regulations of the health authorities.
Among some of the measures implemented, it is proposed to increase the Sunday Holy Masses when there are more people to respect the capacity of the churches, the recommendation of the use of masks, to keep the holy water basins empty and the doors of the churches open to avoid touching handles or knobs.
The Episcopal Conference is grateful for the work carried out with generous dedication by so many people in the health services and in the many activities that make daily life in our society possible. In a special way, it recognizes the availability and the service of the priestsand lay people in these weeks.
The Church continues to support people affected by the economic and social crisis, society appreciates the work of so many church institutions in alleviating the consequences of the pandemic.
Christians have the principles of the Social Doctrine of the Church and the action of Catholics in the reconstruction of social and economic life. economicfollowing the "plan to resurrect" of Pope Francis.
At CARF we are united in the common prayer that strengthens the fraternity, we implore the grace of the Lord and the light of the Holy Spirit to discern what we God We pray especially for the researchers so that they may find a remedy to the pandemic. We place ourselves under the maternal protection of the Immaculate Virgin, patroness of Spain.
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