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Dear brothers and sisters of Archangel Gabriel Parish,
I am grateful to Bishop Zubik for the opportunity to reopen our churches. At Archangel Gabriel, we begin with small baptisms, weddings, and funerals, but at a pace set not to overburden the parish with the great expense of sanitization.
We also look forward to celebrating Mass publicly, even if for the foreseeable future only a small number of people may be present. The Bishop expects us to follow the rules laid out by civil and health officials regarding sanitization. At Archangel Gabriel, we're still working to ascertain how best to implement those rules in our three churches, in addition to obtaining all the equipment and supplies needed to keep our churches clean and safe. I am therefore not yet sure how or when we will be able to reopen our churches for private prayer or public Mass.
For now we continue with confessions and perpetual adoration in the parking lot at St. Malachy Church, and then beginning June 1, my plan is to hold Masses in the Holy Trinity Church parking lot until we can reopen one or more of our churches.
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