Yesterday, Sunday, the University Catholic Center live-streamed our first Sunday Mass. We\u2019ve cobbled together a simple way of streaming to Facebook, basically using just an iPhone. Over the next few days we\u2019ll be looking at ways to improve the quality of the audio and video. What we\u2019re doing now is basic and workable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While Fr. Jimmy was preaching and presiding, I was monitoring the camera and the FB feed to make sure things didn\u2019t go awry. And mostly they didn\u2019t. But because I was watching the live feed, I got to see the notifications when someone started watching, and when they posted a comment or clicked a react icon. We had about 150 people consistently through the whole Mass. I saw people post little shout-outs to their friends, express their gratitude for the chance to come together for prayer, and click those little hearts and thumbs-up icons like murmured \u201camens.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In times of isolation, we really need to maintain whatever connections we can. For our resident community (which is what we call our non-student parishioners) who usually only see each other on Sunday, there was a feeling of relief that they could once again pray together, while simultaneously feeling the reality of our pandemic-induced physical distancing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
We put together a PDF worship aid to help people follow along and sing with us. Was anybody singing out there? I was able to fulfill my life-long ambition to be a backup singer. Thanks, Benjamin! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I know people are feeling the weight of our imposed Eucharistic fast. The Church calls the Eucharist the source and summit of our faith, and it\u2019s difficult\u2014 even during Lent\u2014 to feel disconnected from the source, and unable to reach the summit. But we\u2019re rediscovering that there are lots of different kinds of communion, and many ways to feel a part of the Body of Christ. That\u2019s not a bad thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For myself, I\u2019m realizing how much I miss seeing everyone in person. A campus ministry center is very different from most parishes. Many of our \u201cparishioners\u201d spend hours every day in our building, and I\u2019m accustomed to hearing and seeing the place buzzing with activity. And now it\u2019s so quiet.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n But if you have the time, please join us for Mass online at 12:05 EDT, at our Facebook Page<\/a>. It will be good to know you\u2019re there. And click those little react icons. Amen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yesterday, Sunday, the University Catholic Center live-streamed our first Sunday Mass. We\u2019ve cobbled together a simple way of streaming to Facebook, basically using just an iPhone. Over the next few days we\u2019ll be looking at ways to improve the quality of the audio and video. What we\u2019re doing now is basic and workable. While Fr. Jimmy was preaching and presiding, I was monitoring the camera … Continue reading Thoughts on Live-streamed Mass<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":500,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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":[31,37],"tags":[39,35,36],"class_list":["post-501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-catholicism","tag-liturgy","tag-mass","tag-pandemic"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/corporalworks.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Live-streaming-Mass-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C830","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5FUlW-85","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/corporalworks.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/corporalworks.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/corporalworks.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/corporalworks.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/corporalworks.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=501"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/corporalworks.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":504,"href":"http:\/\/corporalworks.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions\/504"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/corporalworks.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/corporalworks.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/corporalworks.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/corporalworks.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}