COVID-19 RESPONSE

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PUBLIC MASSES DURING COVID-19

PARISH OFFICE REMAINS CLOSED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE

Directives for OPENING BOTH churches of Saint Junipero Serra Parish -- Our Lady of Perpetual Help AND Saint Catharine Siena for PUBLIC Celebration of Sunday Eucharist. 

• All Catholics in the Diocese of Trenton are DISPENSED from their Sunday Mass obligation until further notice. No one is required to come to church. This dispensation is extended until September 7. 
• Parishioners who are worried or fearful about coming to Sunday Mass can stay home. You are dispensed from your Sunday obligation. 
• Please stay home if you have a COVID-19 diagnosis or symptoms. 
• Please stay home if you are in a high risk group for COVID-19 infection, if you have a immuno-compromised condition, if you are not feeling well, if you have a fever, if you are an asymptomatic carrier, or if you are dealing with a serious health condition Again, you do not have to come to Mass on Sunday.
• YOU MUST WEAR A FACE COVERING TO COME INTO CHURCH FOR MASS. If you do not have a face covering, you will need to stay outside the church during Mass. Charity impels us to keep everyone as safe as possible. Children under the age of two years do not have to wear a mask.
• We will have a TEMPORARY revised Mass schedule until further notice, We are not resuming our regular Sunday schedule at this time. 

• We can accommodate no more than 280 persons in St. Catharine of Siena for a Mass
• We can accommodate no more than 120 persons in Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church for a Mass 
• In light of the suspicion that recent cases of Pediatric Inflammatory Syndrome may be linked to COVID-19, parents should exercise extreme caution before bringing children to church. 
• The churches will be cleaned and sanitized after each Mass.
• Access to public restrooms is limited. 
• We ask that people not socialize in the church our outside of the church.
• We will have no Eucharistic adoration, no common recitation of the rosary, and no common novena prayers at this time. 
• No one is to enter the sacristy of either church.
• Please sit only in designated areas and enter through designate doors. You may exit through any door
• You MUST wear a MASK to come into the church.
• Please carry your own hand sanitizer with you.