As numbers at Mass grow, parishes weigh benefits of continuing livestream cruxnow.com
YouTube, Facebook, parish websites — all now offer livestream Masses from parishes across the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis.
But before COVID-19 hit Minnesota in March 2020, most of those parishes had never livestreamed a single Sunday Mass.
With in-person Masses suspended for two months to help prevent spread of the virus, parishes suddenly scrambled to gather or purchase cameras, computers, soundboards, expertise and volunteers. They were anxious to continue offering the sacrament of the Eucharist to their parishioners — at least remotely…
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