SW News: Fr Shaun Whittington, the parish priest of St Anthony of Padua parish, Batesville, Indiana, decided to bring the Church outside among the people, quite literally.

Fr. Shaun Whittington is an EMT and certified in emergency/crisis management and is well aware of the importance of social distancing in containing the spread of corona virus pandemic.

He celebrated mass in the parking lot of his church recently. A few bottles of hand sanitisers were kept near the makeshift altar.

Fr Whittington got an FM transmitter to play the audio of the mass through the car radios of the parked cars of his parishioners.

Communion was brought to the cars, so the people stayed the recommended distance apart.

This ingenious pastor’s example is reminiscent of how Mass was celebrated in town squares throughout Europe during the time of the plague.

Parishioner, Anne Voegele Wilson, shared this incident on her Facebook post along with pictures.