Manitoba’s Chief Public Health Officer, Dr. Brent Roussin, has increased the limit on the size of indoor religious gatherings to 30 per cent of normal capacity, provided social distancing and sanitation measures are in place.
This means a total of 90 people may attend at St. Emile. (This includes the priest, deacon, lectors, greeters, choir, and videographer.)
Attendance will now be on a "first come, first served" basis. Registration by phone or email is not required.
Doors open 1/2 hour before the beginning of Mass.
At Sunday Masses, greeters will welcome you at the entance. You will be invited to sign in and asked if you have self-screened that day. This is required to provide tracing information in case of illness. These questions are available on posters, in the bulletin, to the right on this page, and may be downloaded here.
At weekday Masses, please sign your name and phone number on the sheet at the entrance.
A collection basket is placed near the baptismal font in the centre aisle.
Available pews and seating have been marked with green tape.
Congregational singing is discouraged.
Communion must be received on the hand.
Click here to download this information, including screening questions, as a two-page document.
Click here for the text version of the self-screening questionnaire.
Click here for the poster version of the self-screening questionnaire.
Sunday Masses
Wall-mounted sanitizers are placed at the entrance for your use.
Masks are strongly recommended.
Disinfectant bottles and paper towels are available in every unused pew.
Attendees are invited to disinfect their own pew at the end of Mass.
Marks have been placed 6 feet (2 metres) apart on the sidewalk, at the church entrance, and in the centre aisle as reminders to stay a safe distance from other worshippers when arriving, departing, and particpating in Communion.
♦ Mass at St. Emile
♦ The National Catholic Broadcast Council broadcasts Mass on their web site.
♦ The National Catholic Broadcast Council also streams Mass daily on YouTube.
♦ Salt and Light televises Mass daily. The schedule is available here.
♦ EWTN televises Mass daily. The schedule is available here.
♦ EWTN streams Mass live on YouTube.
"The Church encourages frequent, even daily, Holy Communion, but if at any time we cannot go to Mass in or out of this season of the coronavirus, we can still unite ourselves to the Eucharist through making a spiritual Communion.
By making an Act of Spiritual Communion, we express our faith in Christ’s Real Presence in the Eucharist and ask him to unite himself with us."
Read more from Patti Armstrong at the National Catholic Register.
"My Jesus, I believe that You are present in the Most Holy Sacrament. I love You above all things, and I desire to receive You into my soul.
Since I cannot at this moment receive You sacramentally, come at least spiritually into my heart. I embrace You as if You were already there and unite myself wholly to You. Never permit me to be separated from You. Amen."
-- Act of Spiritual Communion
from St.Alphonsus Liguori --