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Archdiocese to Televise Weekly Masses in Addition to Livestream
The Archdiocese of Los Angeles today announced a continued partnership with FOX11 Los Angeles to air the weekly English Sunday Masses at 10 a.m. from the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels on its KCOP Channel 13 affiliate station during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Music teacher keeps students tuned in via weekly community psalm sing
Heidi Vass, music director at La Reina High School and Middle School in Thousand Oaks, California, was searching for a way to keep her students singing even though distance learning kept them from singing together.
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Easter in an epidemic
Our Lord’s tomb in Jerusalem is sealed shut. For the first time since the black plague of the 14th century, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, built above Jesus’ tomb, is closed. This time because of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
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Homebound by coronavirus, Los Angeles County worships via airwaves
With their houses of faith closed by the state and county stay-at-home orders amid the novel coronavirus outbreak, flocks tuned in from home as pastors shared their Easter services via social media, radio and television on Sunday, April 12.
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Faithful find creative ways to celebrate Easter together, separately
When Archbishop José H. Gomez stepped to the lectern Easter Sunday, his view from the pulpit differed from years past. The pews inside the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, where generations of faithful once sat awaiting his holiday message, were now barren.
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On Easter eve, a local priest speaks to feelings of doubt, anger and faith during the coronavirus pandemic
On the morning of the fourth Sunday of Lent, Father Ricardo Viveros felt lost. He sat on the steps of Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Atwater Village and listened to the silence. No cars. No voices.
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On Easter eve, a local priest speaks to feelings of doubt, anger and faith during the coronavirus pandemic
On the morning of the fourth Sunday of Lent, Father Ricardo Viveros felt lost. He sat on the steps of Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Atwater Village and listened to the silence. No cars. No voices.
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Coronavirus: For first time in history, SoCal churches hold Easter Mass without parishioners
On a normal Easter Sunday, Our Lady of the Angels Cathedral in Los Angeles would be packed with parishioners, but this is not a normal Easter, which is why the Archdiocese is doing everything possible to make sure the faithful enjoy some sense of fellowship.
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Archbishop Gomez: Jesus rises ‘to tell us his love is stronger than death’
Standing in “the joyful light of Easter,” we know “our world is still darkened by loss and despair,” but Jesus rises “to tell us that his love is stronger than death,” the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops said in an Easter statement.
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A guide to a stay-at-home coronavirus Easter in Southern California
This will be an Easter like no other amid stay-at-home restrictions because of the coronavirus outbreak.