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There are also innovations of the time, in some churches people will be able to get Christmas and gluten free this year.
Valentina from Druskininkai is in a hurry to get there before Christmas.
“Well, it may be closed for Christmas,” says Valentina from Druskininkai.
PHOTO GALLERY. For fear of the coronavirus, churches are already sharing Christmas: offering even gluten-free
After donating five euros to those held, the so-called plots, the woman takes them for herself and for those who cannot afford it. Other parishioners follow Valentina’s example.
It is no secret that such a sight, the mountains at the Church of the Scapular of the Virgin Mary in Druskininkai in early November, is somewhat unusual.
In previous years, his faithful came here not before the first Sunday of Advent, when they were celebrated in all the churches of the country:
“It just came to our notice then. You know, very good, so early, very good. What can we know if we can go out next month? And now and share with someone, it’s great to be early. Because that’s the time now.” .
“Well, unusual, but you must be careful. You must do what you need. There will be nothing else. Perhaps Mass … Perhaps there will be Mass remotely, we cannot come. It must be purchased before.”
“All the grandchildren, all those from Lithuania and all the children from Lithuania, I am happy.”
“We don’t know how Christmas will come, now the quarantine is coming, that’s what I bought.”
“I don’t need to ship, everyone has it. I took it just for myself and will take it to my neighbor.”
The priest of the church Druskininkai Vaidas paantrina, the demand is enormous. Fourteen thousand Christmases brought from neighboring Poland have already shared half.
“It just came to our knowledge then. Given the situation he is in. So as not to attack at the last minute and look for those Christmases, or send them out, because when you send them before Christmas, it may be for the ninth”, says priest Vaidas Vaišvilas.
The pastor of the Church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul in Panevėžys also shares Christmas. He says that this year they packed the believers extremely safely.
“It just came to our knowledge then. And this year there are sealed envelopes, well sealed. From the factory and without contact with the environment. This year we order Christmas already packed for the coronavirus. According to all sanitary requirements. We will also distribute Christmas in the packages to the faithful, ”says Pastor Romualdas Zdanys.
It is true that the priests of some of the country’s churches brought an innovation: gluten-free Christmas.
“Because there are people intolerant to gluten. So that they don’t miss out on Christmas, we also bought them this year, ”said V. Vaišvilas.
In the past, gluten-free, according to a spokesman for the Episcopal Conference, only shared communion. Now in Poland, several companies have received permission from the Polish Episcopal Conference to supply not only cakes for communion, but also Christmas.
“People who have celiac disease and cannot take wheat gluten have known for a long time that communion, communicators, are also dual: they are made from common flour and do not contain gluten. They are usually people who want to receive communion without gluten , they come to the Sacristy before Mass and often bring their own gluten-free communicators in the liturgical tents and ask the priest if they can focus them during Mass, ”says Mykolas Sotnichenko, spokesperson for the Episcopal Conference.
It turns out that on Christmas Eve we can also share our baked Christmas. Christmas molds are available in Poland and many of those who buy them bake Christmas themselves. Who doesn’t, bake in ordinary electric waffles. An important Christmas would be made of flour and water, without any other ingredients.
And you can bring a homemade Christmas to church, as the spokesman for the Episcopal Conference says, and the priest will also consecrate it. And those who are afraid of missing Christmas altogether, priest Michael reassures him. It is said that even if a very strict quarantine were to take effect and churches were closed, priests would distribute Christmas to believers not in churches, but alongside them, under the open sky.
So far, however, a spokesman for the Episcopal Conference says that it is also possible to ask for Christmas in churches, urging them to deal with it earlier, not to wait for Christmas Eve, as used to be the case in previous years.
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