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Welcome to our third COVID Communiqué. This week we have no updates or new postings for the diocesan website’s COVID-19 pages.

However, we do have a kind of pre-update: we are working with the Provincial House of Bishops and consulting with public health authorities as a staged plan for reopening is developed. Bishop-elect Shane Parker has also commissioned an epidemiologist to provide specific advice concerning our interactions as we gather for worship, including our Eucharistic practices. The safety of all is paramount as we put together a plan of our diocese.

Recognizing how many plans and decisions governments are struggling with, we hope to offer our plans to health and political leaders for endorsement, rather than waiting for a plan to be developed for us. We’ll let you know any news on this front as soon as we hear.

If you have any questions, or there’s a development we’ve missed, or you find something that’s out of date or wrong, please let us know by sending a note to Heidi Pizzuto, Executive Assistant to the Bishop, and she will direct your note to the right person. There are so many questions around COVID-19, we don’t want to add any more or miss any answers.

The Communiqué is produced by the senior staff of the diocese:
Sanjay Grover, Director of Financial Ministry
Peter John Hobbs, Director of Community Ministries
Shane Parker, Bishop-elect
Jane Scanlon, Director of Stewardship Development
Carol Sinclair, Director of Human Resources