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April 04, 2020

Easter behind closed doors and without religious rites. Considering the liturgical processions that without the coronavirus emergency would occur in all 25 thousand parishes in the territory, and those related to piety and popular devotion, the rites that Covid-19 will blow up on Easter week are an important number, around nine thousand. "Reasonably - explains Monsignor Claudio Magnoli, professor of Liturgy at the theological faculty of northern Italy that the Pope has appointed consultor of the Congregation for Divine Worship - the 'victim' processions of the coronavirus are around nine thousand. Data not scientific but likely if consider the number of parishes in Italy and the rites that revolve around the Sants Week in our country ".

Magnoli analyzes the picture linked to the Easter rites: "The first official liturgical procession is that of tomorrow, Palm Sunday, which commemorates Jesus' entry into Jerusalem: it will not be done by any of the 25,000 parishes in Italy. rites of the Easter Triduum, especially on Good Friday and Easter Sunday morning, there are processions of the sorrowful Madonna or of the late lamented Christ or the processions of the meeting between Mary and the Risen One which are part of a complement of the liturgical speech and are more related to piety and popular devotion. The accounts are back. It is not excessive to speak of about nine thousand rites that are jumping ".

To be suspended, however, Magnoli explains, there are also the processions immediately following Holy Week. "Corpus Christi - says the liturgist - falls in the second week of June and is celebrated with a procession by all the parishes. Will this year be under the intervention of the coronavirus or not? I am not the son of prophets but the wish is that imprisonment from Covid-19 can be dissolved by then, it would be a form of thanks. "