The return to public Mass will begin the weekend of Aug. 14 and 15.
Due to rising COVID-19 cases at the beginning of the pandemic, Bishop Shelton Fabre suspended public Masses in March 2020. Church services were conducted online for about two months before restrictions eased. Though public Masses returned with limited capacity, the dispensation from the obligation to attend Sunday Mass remained in effect until the bishop’s announcement Saturday.
“As your shepherd and pastor, I was also seriously mindful of your health and safety,” Fabre said this week in a letter to local Catholics. “Out of an abundance of concern for your well-being, I decided, albeit with much pain and sorrow in my heart, to suspend in-person celebrations of the Mass and, consequently, to dispense all of you from the precept of the obligation to participate in Mass on Sundays and other holy days. I am very grateful to our priests for the way they continued to provide you with pastoral and spiritual ca
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