The Vatican has approved two new liturgical texts to be used during the coronavirus pandemic and during the Good Friday liturgy this year.
The Congregation for Divine Worship has issued a decree allowing a special “Mass in Time of Pandemic” and released a special intention the Good Friday liturgy.
The special “Mass in the Time of Pandemic” appeals for God’s mercy and gift of strength amid the new coronavirus pandemic.
A March 30 decree released by Cardinal Robert Sarah, prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship, noted the many requests from bishops and priests to celebrate a special Mass “to implore God to bring an end to this pandemic.”
The decree approved a special Mass that can also be celebrated on any day “except solemnities; the Sundays of Advent, Lent and Easter (season); days within the Octave of Easter; the commemoration of All the Faithful Departed (All Souls’ Day); Ash Wednesday; and the days of Holy Week.”
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