Even if Corona has slipped out of the headlines a bit, many people are still infected. Many Viennese are at home, some have to, some do it voluntarily. However, believers do not have to do without the offers at the high point of the church year. The Archdiocese of Vienna is once more broadcasting services via live stream. Homepages, a dedicated app, YouTube, Messenger service, Facebook and Instagram as well as radio and television complete the multimedia Easter programme.
Livestream from the church starting on Palm Sunday
The demand for transmissions of church services is high. Therefore, on Palm Sunday, High Mass with Cardinal Christoph Schönborn will be broadcast via live stream from St. Stephen’s Cathedral. In the same way, the Mass for the Last Supper with washing of the feet on Maundy Thursday, the celebration of the suffering and death of the Lord on Good Friday and then the Easter Vigil celebrations from Saturday can be followed via the Internet.
Around 15,000 services are listed in the Austria-wide service calendar for Holy Week and Easter. The provides an overview Faith.Life app. The free app makes it possible to specifically search for church services or to find the nearest church services. In addition, it offers its own Holy Week and Easter focus with information and tips as well as the daily gospels and daily readings. With the “pray function” you can formulate prayer requests or pray for the requests of other users.
The homepage also offers a preview of the streaming offer at Easter gottesdienst.at. The most important service broadcasts for the coming week are shown on ORF, Servus TV and in the regional radio stations, as well as streaming offers and church service broadcasts, for example from “radio klassik” or “Radio Maria”. Each of the larger services has its own sub-pages with information regarding the parish as well as the selection of songs and sermons. In addition, prayer requests and intercessions can be formulated, which are then sent to the congregations.
Monks on Youtube and Easter week in the live ticker
An additional media offer from the Archdiocese on YouTube is spiritual attunement to the individual feast days under the title “Suffering, Dying, Resurrection – What Easter really means” with monks from the Vienna Schottenstift. The real-time Easter story invites you to celebrate Easter in an unusual way. The individual biblical stations of the Holy and Easter days can be experienced via push messages in the live ticker with short texts, pictures and videos. registration under meinefamilie.at.
“With Anita through Holy Week”
Especially for children starts on the portal’s Facebook and Instagram channels my family.at also starting on Palm Sunday, the series “Through Holy Week with Anita.” Here Anita Nussmüller, consultant for the Relationship-Marriage-Family department of the Diocese of St. Pölten, explains in child-friendly terms what we celebrate during Holy Week and at Easter.
