Churches, worshippers adapt to socially distanced Christmas
Churches modify their Christmas Masses during a surge in the coronavirus pandemic.
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Churchgoers are socially distanced at Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Portland as church sacristan Dianne Tardy carries the cross at the end of daily Mass on Wednesday. Ben McCanna/Staff Photographer
Carmen Dominguez understands the seriousness of the COVID-19 pandemic, so she will not be attending Christmas Eve Mass this year.
But she couldn’t stay away entirely, so she attended a smaller midday Mass on Wednesday at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Portland.
“We wanted to see Jesus this week,” Dominguez said after the Mass.