USCCB Mass Guidelines?

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Is there a uniform set of liturgical guidelines for outdoor Mass being held? Our state is currently in a Phase 1 of 3 in reopening. Indoor worship gathering is limited to 10 people. Outdoor worship is allowed provided that social distancing guidelines are followed. Here is the information from our Diocese Coronavirus update | Diocese of Charlotte . Some area parish’s are still only doing private Mass. Others are allowing indoor Mass with up to 10 people with a sign up required. Others are experimenting with outdoor Mass but the process is different from parish to parish. Some of the outdoor Mass are in car only and require you to sign up ahead of time. Other of the outdoor Mass are not in car but still require you to sign up ahead of time, masks are required, social distancing is required.The Bishop has given the ok but the area priests have to make their own decision on how to follow those guidelines. It would be nice if the USCCB could set some guidelines nationwide but states are in various stages of reopening.
 
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The USCCB can’t set forth uniform guidelines when the COVID situation varies widely between different dioceses. The bishops are in the best position to make determinations for each diocese, depending on the local situation there, and if the bishops decide that some particular decision should be left to the priests then the priests are in the best position to decide for their individual parishes.
 
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Ours are similar for indoors – but also no children who cannot wear a mask or stay in the pew reliably. (Nursing infants are excepted from the mask requirement)

Everyone in the pews must wear a mask.
 
We won’t have any this weekend, we are adding complexities like that after we get the rest of it running smoothly.

They will not be needed, our priest will come down to the people, he will walk through the “empty pew between pews” and distribute Communion to the people as if they were all at an altar rail.
 
It looks like the items in common are.
Dispensation still exists for everyone.
Don’t attend if in vulnerable group or I’ll.
Most Masses are being held outdoors or limited indoors.
Social distancing required.
 
Right. Here, for example, even different parishes have some variations in guidelines because our entire state doesn’t follow a singular reopening plan; local governments were allowed to be more restrictive and cautious if they chose to be, so while the Archdiocese set forth general instructions, the particulars change as you cross county lines.
 
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It would be nice if the USCCB could set some guidelines nationwide but states are in various stages of reopening.
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That last part is why national guidelines would not be best.
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Maybe a few specific guidelines of what NOT to do at Mass would be useful like don’t receive holy communion wearing any sort of gloves, no tossing of the Blessed Sacrament to the communicant, no spraying of holy water with a super-soaker.

Basically of a short list of no-nos to nip any potential liturgy abuse in the bud.
 
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