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A second lockdown will take effect in Austria on Tuesday. The church also suspends its services for three weeks.
On Saturday, the federal government announced a second lockdown, “Today” reported. Stores and schools will also close, but daycare for parents will be the same as in spring. The lockdown will take effect on Tuesday and should apply until December 6.
There are also restrictions on religious life. “The Catholic Church will participate in the announced crown closure and will temporarily suspend public services,” said the president of the Episcopal Conference, Archbishop Franz Lackner, in an interview with Kathpress on Saturday.
“Details will be determined in consultation with the other churches and religious communities, which will then come to an agreement with the government,” Lackner said.
Archbishop Lackner and the other churches and religious communities thanked them briefly for voluntarily suspending public services. Only with the new confinement restrictions can “the period leading up to Christmas and Christmas be saved,” Kurz said.
Churches remain open
“As with the spring closure, the churches will remain open for personal prayer,” Lackner said of the main features of the planned changes. “Public services and church events are largely suspended for a limited period of time. As in the spring, services can only be held in locked rooms and in small groups on behalf of the community.”
As the president of the episcopal conference further explained, this procedure had already been agreed between the bishops. In a next step, churches and religious communities will coordinate with each other on Monday and clarify other aspects.
“Faith provides support and strength in daily life, as well as in confinement. Christian charity must now prove its worth in considerate protection of other human beings, in personal responsibility, as well as in caring closeness and help. to those in need, “Archbishop Lackner said.
