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Diocese: Check with parish before heading out to Christmas Mass
Delaware News Desk
Those who plan to attend Christmas Eve or Christmas Day Masses in one of the 74 Catholic parish or mission churches in Delaware or Maryland’s Eastern Shore are urged to check their parish’s website or bulletin before heading out, as some are requiring advanced reservations in order to comply with state mandated attendance limitations due to the recent uptick in area COVID-19 cases.
“We want to avoid having to turn people away at the door,” said the Most Reverend W. Francis Malooly, bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Wilmington. “Parishes are following government guidelines to make sure everyone stays safe and healthy during Christmas and beyond. Limiting attendance, social distancing, wearing masks and other requirements will be in place to assure that we will all be around when our Christmas Masses are once again standing room only.”
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But still, districts struggled to track down students by the Nov. 15 count.
While attendance in Christina School District has been declining for years, this year’s decrease of 890 students, or 6.4%, was the most drastic the district has seen. Superintendent Dan Shelton noted that identifying and tracking students in the remote setting has been difficult.
Prior to the pandemic, the district did not have a device for every student, and with schools across the country ordering tablets and Chromebooks at the same time, Christina is still waiting on delayed shipments.
At some schools in the district, students who don’t have a device at home receive paper packets from their school each week.
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