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A Message from Father Dave on May 31, 2020:

• The 10:00 AM live stream Mass will continue, though it might be outdoors at Holy Trinity in order to accommodate the restored Mass schedule. The sound will be poorer, but that’s a sacrifice I ask you to make in order that our parish might share our worship more broadly. We offer this live stream Mass for those who are vulnerable or sick. PLEASE, if you are sick or vulnerable to sickness, stay home!

• We’ll hold all Masses on the published schedule except when thunderstorms threaten, in which case the public Mass will be cancelled. (The priest will still say the Mass, but out of public view.) When the weather’s uncertain, you’ll be able to check the parish website. You can sign up for more timely alerts on your smartphone by texting “AGP” to 84576.

• Those who are able to withstand the weather—heat or cold, rain or dry—are welcome to park in the church lot and use a cell phone to dial in for sound. Worshipers will stay in their cars or, if they get out, will stay within a single parking berth, wear masks, and maintain the social distance required by public health authorities.• Holy Communion will not be distributed during Mass, except to the liturgical ministers. If the weather has not become too rainy during Mass, then after Mass the ministers will distribute Communion at specified stations in the parking lots. At this time, my plan is to have communicants drive up to the station, get out of the car, receive Communion, then get back in and drive off. (If you are wheelchair-bound, then have your driver wait until the end of the Communion line, and the ministers will then attend to you individually according to circumstances.)

• I am trying to find ushers or other volunteers to help make collection “baskets” available after the Communion stations.

• At Holy Trinity Church, Mass will be celebrated at the canopied sanctuary erected near the main entrance. The Communion stations will be at the driveways leading to either exit from the property.

• At St. Malachy Church, Mass will be celebrated at the altar in the window. The Communion stations will be directly in front of the church, halfway under the roof canopy.

• At. St. Mary, Help of Christians, Mass will be celebrated on the canopied back porch of the priests’ residence. The Communion stations will be in the driveway exit toward Church Avenue.

A Message from Father Dave on May 17, 2020:

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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