Church and Covid: There is a whole ecclesiastical world which is disappearing Participating in a Zoom Eucharist is a bit like walking on water
Tue, Mar 16, 2021, 01:00 Soline Humbert
Church and Covid-19: “While this pandemic will, in time, be over, it will have contributed to some lasting changes which were already under way.” File photograph: iStock
Our church buildings are currently closed again to communal worship, as they have been on and off throughout the past year because of the pandemic. It is this context which gave birth to what can be described as a radical experiment.
What I am referring to is the participation in Eucharistic celebrations through the medium of Zoom and other internet platforms. My hope in documenting this new liturgical phenomenon is that it will stimulate reflection, conversation and personal and communal discernment.