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Church goers attending the Mass outside the doors of the Parish.\u00a0Photo: Mervin Olivera<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”Main News Article \/ Blog \/ Content” _builder_version=”4.4.5″ hover_enabled=”0″] MANILA –\u00a0Catholic parishes may welcome more people to indoor liturgical services after the government on Friday adjusted the number of attendees.<\/p>\n For areas under general community quarantine, churches can hold services with 10 percent of building capacity starting July 10.<\/p>\n Catholic bishops in Metro Manila welcomed the resumption of all small Masses, saying that \u201cit\u2019s a good sign\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cIt is also a good start in reopening our churches,\u201d Bishop Honesto Ongtioco of Cubao said.<\/p>\n Some bishops earlier appealed to the government to reconsider its guideline allowing only 10 people to join religious services in areas under GCQ.<\/p>\n \u201cThere is a good development. There\u2019s a big difference between 10 persons and 10 percent,\u201d Pabillo said.<\/p>\n In areas under modified GCQ, churches are allowed to hold services at 50 percent seating capacity.<\/p>\n Diocesan guidelines around the resumption of Mass have been issued to parishes, and are in line with national protocols.<\/p>\n \u201cWe follow the government protocol in helping prevent the spread of coronavirus,\u201d Ongtioco soid.<\/p>\n Those parishioners who are at higher risk from Covid-19 are encouraged to stay home.<\/p>\n Many dioceses also opened opportunities for bringing Holy Communion to homes. –\u00a0CBCPNews<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider _builder_version=”3.20.1″] \r\n<\/p>\r[\/et_pb_divider][et_pb_post_nav prev_text=”PREVIOUS ARTICLE” next_text=”NEXT ARTICLE” _builder_version=”3.20.1″ background_color=”rgba(12,113,195,0.55)”] \r\n<\/p>\r[\/et_pb_post_nav][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Observe strict social distancing and use a face mask when we go to church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40974,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-catholic-faith","category-cbcp-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8Ootw-aEP","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aranzazushrine.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/article_mass-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1706&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40971"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40976,"href":"https:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40971\/revisions\/40976"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}