Hoping to make Easter Sunday as normal as possible, one Quad Cities church will celebrate with a virtual mass this weekend.
Father Jake Greiner, Pastor of Our Lady of Victory Catholic Church in Davenport, says he and a small group of helpers will get up very early on Sunday and record a mass so it's available starting at 7 am.
"We want it there first thing in the morning so when people get up on Easter Sunday morning they'll have something to look to, hopefully to start off their day in a beautiful way. It's going to be so very different that we're just hoping and praying that this can be a source of hope and a source of peace on Easter Sunday."
Staying within the guidelines of having no more than 10 people together at a time, Greiner will record the mass with help from a reader, organist, cantor, deacon, and camera person.
This will be the 4th week his church has recorded a mass for Sunday morning, and made it available on You Tube.
"I would say that my own thinking has been expanded quite a little bit during these difficult times. And again what was not possible in my mind a month ago is now happening."
And trying to make it as normal as possible, the mass will include incense.
On a normal Easter Sunday, he says Our Lady of Victory hosts three masses, attended by a total of about 1,700 people.