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All Masses will be celebrated inside the churches according to the schedule with the exception of the 10:00 AM and the 12:30 PM Sunday Masses at Holy Trinity, which will be celebrated in the parking lot. As of October 3rd, parishes in the Diocese of Pittsburgh have been permitted to increase attendance to 50% of maximum capacity provided that they are able to maintain all health and safety protocols. We will continue to wear masks, socially distance, and sanitize our spaces. Additionally, we will continue our current practice of distributing Holy Communion after Mass.

You are required to register for all Saturday evening and Sunday indoor Masses (registration is not required for daily Mass). Thank you for cooperating with the following directives, which are meant to promote the physical health and safety of all present:

• If you are sick or vulnerable to COVID-19, please stay home. Visit archangelgabrielparish.org/sunday for resources on how to pray from home.

• Arrive to church no earlier than 30 minutes prior to the start of Mass as the doors will not be open until 30 minutes prior to the start of Mass.

• Wear a mask while you are in Church unless you are a person who cannot wear a mask due to a relevant medical condition, such persons may be assigned remote seating.  Mask wearing does not apply to infants or toddlers.

• Use hand-sanitizer that is provided when you enter and exit Church.

• Sit where the staff or ushers direct you; everyone will be assigned seating.  Do not stray from your seat except as instructed, or for emergency trips to the restroom.  For the safety of everyone and especially the vulnerable, this instruction applies even to toddlers. (Sorry!)

• Maintain a 6 foot distance from everyone not in your own household.

• Keep the touching of surfaces to a minimum.

• Once Mass is ended, or you have received Holy Communion, whichever comes later, please do not return to your pew or otherwise linger in the church or narthex. Instead, go outside immediately.

FOUR WAYS TO REGISTER FOR WEEKEND INDOOR MASSES

1. Sign up for Flocknote and a registration link will be emailed to you every week.
2. Click the “Register for Mass” slide on the homepage of our website
3. Find the next weekend’s registration link in the bulletin each week.
4. Call the parish office at 412-787-2140. The receptionist will take your name and contact info to register you for a particular Mass.

The parish is continuing to work with the guidelines set forth by the diocese in the reopening guide "Moving Forward Together". Information surrounding the opening of public Mass and what to expect can be found at diopitt.org/moving-forward-together.

Archangel Gabriel Parish and the Diocese of Pittsburgh are monitoring the fluid and emergent COVID-19 as it affects Allegheny County. For updates from the Allegheny County Health Department, click here.

An Update from Bishop Zubik on September 29, 2020:

50% Maximum Capacity Now Allowed, Health and Safety Protocols Remain in Effect
The full press release can be read here:
Bishop David Zubik Eases Limits on Attendance for Masses in the Diocese of Pittsburgh

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.
 
To stay up to date please text the letters “AGP” to 84576 or visit Flocknote.

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