Updated Covid procedures for our Church services

 

As we (hopefully) continue to emerge from the worst effects of Covid we have removed the majority of restrictions relating to attendance at church services at St Mary's.

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All benches in the church are now open, with no requirement for social distancing within the benches, kneelers are back in use. Consequently there is now no restriction on the number of attendees at any Service in the church. Hand sanitisers will still be available at the church entrance.

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The wearing of face coverings is not mandatory. Please note that this means that, whether you choose to wear a mask or not, you may well be near someone doing the opposite, and your forbearance of the individual's choice will be most appreciated.

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All other aspects of our church services have returned to "normal" (eg hymns, Mass books, Hymn books, sign of peace (by gesture, not touching)) although Holy Communion will remain under one kind only (the Sacred Host).

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Communicating with you

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As a key part of our Parish implementation of the Archdiocesan Pastoral Plan we want to make sure that our communication with the Parish Community is as good as it can be.

 

To this end we want to be able to communicate widely via email - many Parishioners (and others who want to be part of the wider Parish Community) have already registered their email contact details with us and are receiving the current communications - we are now circulating the Parish Newsletter and Deanery and Archdiocesan news on a weekly basis to these subscribers in addition to ad-hoc Parish news as required. If you haven't already subscribed to the Parish mailing list you are strongly encouraged to do so - to do this please enter your contact details by following THIS LINK. 

Note that you don't need to re-register if you have previously done so!

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