Churches go virtual this Christmas, streaming hope and joy in hard times
Updated Dec 24, 2020;
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Noon mass on Sunday, Dec. 20, at the Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart in Newark, where there was plenty of room for in-person attendees to sit at a social distance. A Christmas Eve mass given by Archbishop Joseph Tobin at Sacred Heart will be remote only, livestreamed at midnight on the cathedral's Facebook page.
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Christmas Eve services at the Presbyterian Church in Morristown will begin at noon on Dec. 24, and live eternally — on YouTube.
While the 287-year-old congregation is steeped in tradition and history — General George Washington is depicted receiving Holy Communion during a Revolutionary War-era outdoor service there — it will join countless other houses of worship during this extraordinary holiday season in using thoroughly modern means to mark the birth of Jesus.