As of Sunday 6th Feb 2022, guidelines concerning Covid restrictions are changing.
In our Church, we are able to make some significant and positive moves towards full attendance at the Holy Mass.
Most importantly:
No upper limit for numbers. We can sit with friends and neighbours.
Remaining precautions:
Face masks MUST be worn (unless exempt)
Sanitizer will remain available at both doors
We will continue to have welcome ministers and ask that everyone continues to protect themselves and others by following guidelines and avoid attending Mass if you are experiencing any coronavirus symptoms
To read the Statement from the Church regarding these restrictions please follow on the link below
BCOS Statement 5th January 2021
A letter from Archbishop Cushley
Edinburgh, 04 Jan 2021
Dear brother priests and deacons,
Following the First Minister’s announcement today, our churches will be obliged to close from Friday (08 January 2021) inclusive. The only exception made is for funerals (maximum 20 persons), weddings (maximum 5 persons) or the use of the church for placing worship online, naturally including Mass. These restrictions are expected to run for four weeks, but I will update you with further details as they arrive. Please see below the Scottish Government guidance, which can be found at
https://www.gov.scot/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-stay-at-home-guidance/
I am sure you share my dismay at the imposition of these measures, in spite of the good intentions that they represent. I therefore ask you to cooperate with these rules in the name of the common good and our shared responsibility for our fellow citizens.
Meantime, I will ask the Bishops’ Conference to seek from the Government clear scientific evidence as to why our churches may not remain open and of the risk posed by gathering for worship in a way that has already been heavily curtailed, and that we have so far followed scrupulously.
Sincerely in the Lord,
+Leo Cushley
Archbishop of St Andrews & Edinburgh