{"id":7203,"date":"2021-11-20T18:49:12","date_gmt":"2021-11-20T05:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wellingtonsouthcatholic.org\/?p=7203"},"modified":"2021-11-20T18:49:12","modified_gmt":"2021-11-20T05:49:12","slug":"guidelines-for-worshipping-with-covid-19-in-our-midst-from-the-nz-catholic-bishops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wellingtonsouthcatholic.org\/?p=7203","title":{"rendered":"Guidelines for worshipping with Covid-19 in our midst. From the NZ Catholic Bishops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new \u2018traffic light\u2019 system will allow people to gather in churches under certain conditions from early December;<br \/>\n<strong>\uf0b7<\/strong> Parishes will provide Masses for vaccinated people with a My Vaccine Pass.<br \/>\n<strong>\uf0b7<\/strong> A separate numbers-restricted Mass will be open to vaccinated and unvaccinated alike (no proof of vaccine required).<br \/>\n<strong>\uf0b7<\/strong> All those who are ushers, readers, ministers of the Eucharist, collectors, those leading liturgies of the Word, Communion to the sick, etc will need to be fully vaccinated at vaccination-only Masses.<br \/>\n<strong>\uf0b7<\/strong> Priests who are not fully vaccinated will be unable to exercise pastoral care in aged-care residential settings or hospitals as well as schools.<br \/>\n<strong>\uf0b7<\/strong> Fully vaccinated priests presiding at a service open to both the vaccinated and unvaccinated, need to give due consideration to any health conditions that make them more susceptible to being infected by Covid-19.<br \/>\n<strong>\uf0b7<\/strong> Pending any changes accompanying the \u2018traffic light\u2019 system, Parishes should continue with measures designed to minimise the risk of transmitting Covid-19, such as encouraging the use of masks, social distancing, communion only in the hand, no holy water for blessing, and no shared hymn or other books.<\/p>\n<p>The New Zealand Catholic Bishops Conference have commentary on their website:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholic.org.nz\/news\/media-releases\/mass-with-trafficlights\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.catholic.org.nz\/news\/media-releases\/mass-with-trafficlights\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The full Bishops letter is available from:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholic.org.nz\/assets\/Uploads\/Bishops-Pastoral-Letter-Covid-19-vaccinations-extended.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.catholic.org.nz\/assets\/Uploads\/Bishops-Pastoral-Letter-Covid-19-vaccinations-extended.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new \u2018traffic light\u2019 system will allow people to gather in churches under certain conditions from early December; \uf0b7 Parishes will provide Masses for vaccinated people with a My Vaccine <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wellingtonsouthcatholic.org\/?p=7203\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellingtonsouthcatholic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellingtonsouthcatholic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellingtonsouthcatholic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellingtonsouthcatholic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellingtonsouthcatholic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7203"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wellingtonsouthcatholic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7207,"href":"https:\/\/wellingtonsouthcatholic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7203\/revisions\/7207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellingtonsouthcatholic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellingtonsouthcatholic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellingtonsouthcatholic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}