A mass in Vladivostok (illustration).
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Yuri Smityuk / TASS / Sipa USA / SIPA
Preferential treatment ?
Or a simple benevolent gesture for Christmas Eve?
In Gap (Hautes-Alpes), the Christmas mass exceptionally organized on December 24 at 5.30 p.m. in the ice rink of the Alp Arena aroused strong reactions.
If the diocese of Gap has obtained the authorization of the town hall to organize this exceptional office in the heart of the usual playing area of the local hockey club of the Rapaces, many locals were indignant at the idea of potentially seeing 700 people. come together on this occasion in the midst of an epidemic of restrictions linked to Covid-19.
“We respect the rules imposed in France for places of worship.
We could not be prevented because we will scrupulously respect the sanitary measures ”, defended himself to our colleagues from France 3 Father Mickaël Fontaine, parish priest of Gap, the rink having been chosen precisely because it can accommodate 700 people, unlike the Saint-Roch church, with a capacity of only 200 people this year.
In the end, a little more than 200 faithful gathered
The Raptors of Gap, who have been playing for six months behind closed doors in their room because of health measures, for their part joked about this decision, saying that their "next matches will be played at Gap Cathedral".
A misunderstanding shared by the municipal opposition.
Father Fontaine had in any case got it right in estimating that the Mass would not welcome 700 faithful: according to the local media D1CI!
, it finally attracted just over 200 people.
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