Churches gear up for Easter weekend, this time with less COVID-19 restrictions Churches gear up for Easter Sunday By Breanne Bizette | April 3, 2021 at 6:16 PM CDT - Updated April 4 at 7:51 PM BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Tomorrow people may see a few more faces in the pew for Easter mass, it’s one that priests have been looking forward to with more parishioners expected to come in for mass. “This time last year, we were all locked away in our house, and I was celebrating Easter mass by myself with an empty church and joining everybody online. So, it’s been a real wonderful blessing to see our folks finally start coming back as they feel more comfortable as they get their vaccines and they feel more comfortable coming back to worship with us,” says Father Michael Allelo who is at St. Thomas More Catholic Church.