Masses and services to celebrate the birth of Jesus as we celebrate Christmas amid Corona 19 were carried out calmly and non-face-to-face.
Reporter Lee Hyun-jung reports.
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Cardinal Soo-jung Yeom wearing a mask and the priests enter the empty church.
The congregation attended the mass by broadcasting live at home instead of the cathedral.
Cardinal Yeom said in his Christmas message that he was sorry for the situation of suffering from Corona 19.
[염수정/추기경 : 소외받고 가난한 사람들에게 더 많은 관심과 형제적 사랑을 가져야 할 때라고 생각합니다.]
The believers who couldn’t attend Mass visited the church to appease their regrets.
[최선미/서울 동작구 : 올해는 비대면으로 참석할 수가 없어서 온라인으로 미사를 드렸고요. 그래도 좀 섭섭해서 아이와 같이 구유 동상 보고 가려고 (왔습니다).]
[메리 크리스마스! 자, 선물! (감사합니다.)]
The’drive through’ method of gathering in the parking lot of a cathedral or church and listening to a sermon on air in each car also attracted attention.
[짧게 1~2초 동안 한 번 눌러주세요. 자, 할렐루야!]
The Vatican’s Christmas Eve Mass was also held quietly this year.
St. Peter’s Cathedral, which was filled with close to 10,000 people last year, gathered about 100 people this year due to the number of attendees.
In the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, France, which collapsed in April last year, a choir of a choir wearing a hard hat resonated.
Even if we couldn’t get together due to Corona 19, it was Christmas in which each person thought about the more difficult and marginalized people in their minds.
(Video coverage: Young-chun Oh and Chang-gun Jang KBC, Video editing: Seung-Jin Lee)