Schedule

NOTICE: With the Vigil of Pentecost, the Diocese of Providence is opening liturgical life. It has made available diocesan guidelines and requirements for the safe return to the pew, to be followed throughout the diocese. Notably, the faithful still have a general dispensation from attendance at Mass on Sundays and holy days. Portsmouth Abbey also welcomes worshipers back to the Church of St. Gregory the Great with the Pentecost celebration. In view of this, Fr. Michael Brunner has announced the following practices all should note for this return.

MASS - GUIDELINES FOR ATTENDANCE

1. Attendance at Mass will be limited in order to prevent risk of infection. If the church, has reached its capacity (approx 150), you may not be admitted. So come early.

2. Anyone who has symptoms of any sickness (even mild symptoms) may not attend the public celebration of Mass.

3. Worshippers must sanitize their hands immediately upon entry to the church. Bring your own sanitizer if you wish.

4. Likewise, you must wear a mask at all times.

5. Families may sit together. Otherwise six feet distance must be maintained between worshippers. Every other row of pews is closed off.

6. You may be directed where to sit.

7. There will be no congregational singing. Missalettes have been removed from the pews.

8. Communion will be distributed in the center aisle. Worshippers approach the priest single file.

9. Pews will come up one by one to receive, persons maintaining a distance of six feet between each other.

10. Communion will be under the species of bread only, received in the hand.

11. Depart from the church single file and slowly, maintaining a distance of 6 feet between persons in front of and behind you. Church will be sanitized before and after each Mass.