{"id":51146,"date":"2020-03-17T09:45:12","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T14:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=51146"},"modified":"2020-03-19T10:21:25","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T15:21:25","slug":"what-livestreamed-mass-means-to-me-at-this-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2020\/03\/17\/what-livestreamed-mass-means-to-me-at-this-time\/","title":{"rendered":"What Livestreamed Mass Means to Me at This Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>A practicing Catholic shares her experiences and thoughts.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>My parish live-streamed one Mass last Sunday, the biggest one, which had a cantor, organist, servers and lectors. No choir though \u2013 they cancelled the regular choir to limit close exposure. There were a few people there.<\/p>\n<p>When it first started, you couldn\u2019t hear the priest at all, and I thought, man, this is going to be worthless. But they quickly realized the problem and corrected it.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t think they said anything about a \u201cspiritual Communion\u201d but I might have missed it? They did regular Communion with the regular words and even had three Eucharistic ministers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2020\/03\/17\/what-livestreamed-mass-means-to-me-at-this-time\/mj-1-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-51156\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-51156 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/MJ-1-1-300x83.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"83\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/MJ-1-1-300x83.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/MJ-1-1.jpg 411w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>It actually wasn\u2019t awkward at all. I liked seeing our regular priest, whom I know and admire. It was nice to have something stable and predictable when everything else is topsy-turvy. At that exact moment, it maybe did seem a little strange, like Wow, this is really something. But now I look back on it fondly as everything else is slipping away. I suspect it was the last \u201clive\u201d Mass I\u2019ll participate in, albeit remotely, for a long time. I would think that if they move to remote Masses, they won\u2019t have a congregation or music or servers, and so forth. Maybe if the monastery offered Mass remotely, you could have music since the monks are all together there already.<\/p>\n<p>I strongly hope that there will be local efforts for live-streamed Masses. I guess it may always be available on cable TV channels. But I strongly hope that I can see our parish priest, in my church, saying Mass like he always has. It really would be comforting.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, it has to be balanced against whether it puts him at risk \u2013 although if it\u2019s just him and the videographer and they aren\u2019t already sick, it should be okay. I\u2019d miss the music, but I would give that up to keep the musicians safe at home. Maybe they could play some recorded music or something instead.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2020\/03\/17\/what-livestreamed-mass-means-to-me-at-this-time\/mj-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-51151\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-51151 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/MJ-2-300x120.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"120\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/MJ-2-300x120.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/MJ-2.jpg 373w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I think resources for praying alone at home will be important, but a live-streamed Mass would be great too. If I had to choose, I\u2019d pick the live-streamed Mass. There are already so many resources available online that I don\u2019t really need help there. And if someone doesn\u2019t have any technology, I\u2019m not even sure how you reach them. In reality, many of those are the elderly, such as those 80 or up, probably know how to pray at home already and will be doing that \u2013 rosaries, all the traditional prayers, and so forth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I suspect it was the last \u201clive\u201d Mass I\u2019ll participate in, albeit remotely, for a long time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":51149,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-plaza-new-ws"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>What Livestreamed Mass Means to Me at This Time - Home<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2020\/03\/17\/what-livestreamed-mass-means-to-me-at-this-time\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"What Livestreamed Mass Means to Me at This Time - 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