When coronavirus restrictions meant churches couldn't hold public Mass anymore, the priests at Catholic Diocese of Sandhurst already had a plan.
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They set up a chapel upstairs at their St Kilians parish in McCrae Street to livestream daily mass for people who wanted to worship during the pandemic.
During the week 93-year-old Father Paul Purcell leads Mass. He said the church has always been good at keeping up with technological demand.
"I don't know much about the electronic side of it (but) give me a big diesel engine and I'll fix it for you," he said. "It goes through your mind that there is someone at the other end.
"When people got passports it was a revolution, so the world does get organised.
"The church has always kept up. Not many people had loudspeakers (when they were new) and the church got them very quickly. You went from being glad you didn't have to hear (things) to not being able to miss them."
Father Junray Rayna, who is the administrator at the St Kilian's Parish, said they had been livestreaming Mass since December.
"Live streaming is something we have had since December. We stream to nursing homes or people cant come in," he said. "But the online world is still foreign to a lot them. Our only concern is some parishioners aren't familiar with Facebook or social media.
"When we were told not allowed to say Mass publicly, straight away we set up the chapel upstairs. It is a really productive source of light to many of us now. A lot of people tune in because we stick to our usual time. When we said Mass the other day I said to Paul 'there might only be two of us but a lot of people are following the Mass."
Father Purcell said as times get more difficult, more people will turn to faith for answers.
"You can't have experiences (like this) without going through it mentally," he said. "But it's a matter of adaptation. Christians were there before there were buildings. Having a church makes a big difference but when I went to Solomon Islands, they just had leaf huts (for a church). The building isn't important."
St Kilian's livestreams Mass from Monday to Saturday at 12.10pm and on Sunday at 10am. Streams are available on the Catholic Diocese of Sandhurst Facebook page or at www.sandhurst.catholic.org.au
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