Friday, April 3, 2020

Visiting Church, Valid Reason to Go Out --Italian Prime Minister


Question: "Can we leave home to go to church or to other places of worship?"

Answer: "Access to places of worship is allowed, as long as gatherings are avoided and a distance of no less than three feet between the visitors is ensured. It is permissible to visit the place of worship closest to home, keeping such movement, as far as possible, in the vicinity of one's home.

Places of worship can also be visited on the occasion of movements otherwise permitted, i.e. those determined by essential work needs or necessities, and which are on the way, so that, in an inspection by officials one should make that intention intention know. However, the suspension of all ceremonies, even religious ones, remains firm."

Plinthos: This clarification by the Italian government also implies that priests may randomly say Mass on the churches' altars and hear confessions in the confessionals, keeping the required distance and not forming a crowd. A priest with a few people might also make a procession in the neighborhood to pray for an end to the plague, en route to the nearby church.

Cf. http://plinthos.blogspot.com/2020/03/people-are-still-allowed-to-go-to.html
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Domanda: “Ci si può spostare per andare in chiesa o negli altri luoghi di culto?”

Risposta: “L’accesso ai luoghi di culto è consentito, purché si evitino assembramenti e si assicuri tra i frequentatori la distanza non inferiore a un metro. È possibile raggiungere il luogo di culto più vicino a casa, intendendo tale spostamento per quanto possibile nelle prossimità della propria abitazione.

Possono essere altresì raggiunti i luoghi di culto in occasione degli spostamenti comunque consentiti, cioè quelli determinati da comprovate esigenze lavorative o da necessità, e che si trovino lungo il percorso già previsto, in modo che, in caso di controllo da parte delle forze dell’ordine, si possa esibire o rendere la prevista autodichiarazione. Resta ferma tuttavia la sospensione di tutte le cerimonie, anche religiose”.
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