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Reverend Robert Griffin, pastor of Shelter Island Presbyterian Church, recently realized one of many truths that have emerged from the pandemic.
“COVID has tested our characters, but more importantly, it’s
revealed our characters,” Reverend Griffin said. “Sometimes in wonderful ways, sometimes in quite other ways. COVID has done that in our town, in our country and in the world.”
He, along with other faith leaders, is looking at an Easter and Passover markedly different from the spring of 2020, when COVID locked down in-person services for most of the significant holy days of the Christian and Jewish traditions.
Holy Week services return to churches closed last Easter by COVID
Updated Mar 01, 2021;
Posted Mar 01, 2021
St. Michael s Parish in East Longmeadow will offer Holy Week services on site that will also be live streamed. (Photo by Anne-Gerard Flynn, Special to The Republican)
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Last April, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Springfield marked Easter morning with the ringing of steeple bells as Masses were suspended and churches closed mid-way through Lent by the diocese in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Practicing Catholics in the four counties of Western Massachusetts that the diocese covers were advised at the time that Bishop Mitchell Rozanski would celebrate the televised “Chalice of Salvation” Mass Easter Sunday on WWLP Channel 22.