Almost alone in all of this is Pope Francis in the mighty St. Peter’s Basilica and speaks the Easter blessing “Urbi et orbi”. A few weeks before the 12. April 2020 would have been such a scene unimaginable. Last spring, the Lockdown has also made the Church’s great challenge: worship services without believers, even the Pope could for the first time, celebrating for decades, no Easter mass with Thousands of people in St. Peter’s square and millions of TV viewers all over the world.
corona all celebrations are conditionally expected this year in the Vatican in the Kar and Easter days, very reduced, and with only a few present creditors to take place.
Easter service in the Live-Stream
The Bavarian television is still, as of 2020, the two most important celebrations, Pope Francis transferred and the TV images from Vatican Radio take over: on good Friday from 21.00 “Pope Francis prays the stations of the cross”, as well as the Easter Sunday from 10.00 am “Easter in Rome. With Pope Francis and blessing Urbi et orbi”. To Saturday (3. April) sends the Bavarian television 22.00 a Protestant worship for the Easter vigil from the Christ Church in Landshut, Germany. The focus is on the question: “Why is this night night is different than all the others?”
- divine services in the BR Live Stream
in Addition, the public broadcaster have transfers for more Worship and spiritual topics in the program. On good Friday (2. April) sends The First to 10.00 a Protestant worship from St.-Mang-Church in Kempten. It is also about experiences that make people today, with death, grief, and loss. To the Easter Monday (5. April) radiates The First to 10.00 under the motto “The long road to life” is a Protestant worship from the cross Church in Hamburg-Kirchdorf.
- worship in the Live-Stream of the ARD see
At Easter Sunday (4. April) transmits the ZDF to 9.30 a Protestant worship under the slogan “Nevertheless, Confidence” from the St. John’s Church in Erbach; the sermon on the Hamburger Bishop Kirsten Fehrs. The Easter vigil at Saturday (3. April) transmits the ZDF stream in the ZDFheute-App and on ZDFheute.de from 19.30 . It ZDF-Vatican expert Jürgen Erbacher and pastor Heinz comment-Jürgen Förg.
- Easter mass in the Live Stream ZDF
Bible TV shows good Friday (2. April) to 15.00 is a Live broadcast from the münster St.-Paulus-Dom Cathedral for the Celebration of the passion and death of Christ. Of Easter Sunday (4. April) will be sent to 10.00 of the Easter service in the Cathedral of Salzburg. Of Easter Monday (5. April) see 10.00 of the Live worship from the Berliner Dom.
- Church services on Bible TV live
Easter Church services at a Glance
- good Friday, 10 am: of Protestant worship from the St.-Mang-Church in Kempten (The First one)
- Friday, may 15, at: worship for the Celebration of the passion and death of Christ in the münster St.-Paulus-Dom Cathedral (the Bible TV)
- good Friday, 21 p.m.: “Pope Francis prays the stations of the cross” (BR)
- Saturday, 22 p.m.: of Protestant worship to the Easter vigil, from the Christ Church in Landshut (BR)
- Easter Sunday, 9.30 am: of Protestant worship from the St. John’s Church in Erbach (ZDF)
- Easter Sunday, 10 a.m.: Easter in Rome. With Pope Francis and blessing Urbi et orbi” (BR)
- Easter Sunday, 10 a.m.: Easter service in the Cathedral of Salzburg (the Bible TV)
- Easter Monday, 10 PM: of Protestant worship from the Church of the Holy cross of Hamburg-Kirchdorf (The First one)
- Easter Monday, 10 PM: worship in the Berliner Dom (the Bible TV)
presence religious services be held responsible Action
With the abandonment of the planned “Easter” is also asked the Federal government and the States, is a purely virtual worship services, Easter, formally from the table. The Federal press office released on Thursday an amended decision, to be deleted in the whole of the section sharper restrictions from Maundy Thursday to Easter Monday.
The Catholic bishops had already declared that the possibility of the presence of God services to Easter with clear hygiene measures hold. At the same time, a spokesman for the German bishops ‘ conference called on to act responsibly and to take advantage of Streaming services. Even individual dioceses appealed already to the personal responsibility of the Catholics in the balancing to visit a presence-worship or not.
it is Easter to the digitalization of the Church
have to dispense with All the Easter service, many people, despite the pandemic so. In Germany last year, and made a number of municipalities in the shortest possible time, Live-Streams on their websites and in the Social networks on the legs. According to the click numbers have increased. The Online Portal features – nationwide, one of the largest Church portals, the streamed before pandemic services – reported figures as of April 2020, on average, five Times higher than in 2019. The level was maintained up to today, explained domradio.de. Accordingly, some 15,000 people look each online and the Sunday mass from the Cathedral.
Online services people can encourage
Whether or not the step into the Digital, however, be sustainable, the Frankfurt Catholic pastoral theologian Wolfgang Beck in question. The scientists examined as a member of an Ecumenical research group Online developments in the Church. The first results of the unpublished study blades sobering. A greater proportion of employees, especially in Catholic parishes have received little support from the dioceses, when it came to Online-of ideas, says Beck. In addition, there were many in the Church often “a resentment of digital ways of working, which are seen as less real, or less valuable as personal encounters”.
Overall, the Catholic Church dealt with the question of whether the acts were to be in a worship service “valid”, if this would “just” celebrated online, warns Beck. Here, he desires a change of perspective. The Celebration of the Sunday worship service is to encourage, especially the people. A well-made Online worship service can sometimes be better than a poorly-made presence in worship, according to the theologian.
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