Eucharistic adoration from afar in Winchester

Catholic Herald Staff Report

Stained-glass windows illuminate the darkened church as people pray. JOE CASHWELL | FOR THE CATHOLIC HERALD

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Father Bjorn Lundberg, pastor, hears confession in an entranceway of Sacred Heart Academy in Winchester March 28. JOE CASHWELL | FOR THE CATHOLIC HERALD

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Faithful wait in parked cars for their turn for confession March 28. JOE CASHWELL | FOR THE CATHOLIC HERALD

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Chris Ricketts (left), director of summer programs and a music teacher at Sacred Heart Academy, sanitizes a portable confessional with wipes in between confessions heard by Father Bjorn Lundburg. JOE CASHWELL | FOR THE CATHOLIC HERALD

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A parishioner prays in her car during the drive-up adoration. JOE CASHWELL | FOR THE CATHOLIC HERALD

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A monstrance containing the host is visible from a window in the rectory of Sacred Heart of Jesus Church in Winchester. JOE CASHWELL | FOR THE CATHOLIC HERALD

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A monstrance containing the host is visible from a window in the rectory of Sacred Heart of Jesus Church in Winchester. JOE CASHWELL | FOR THE CATHOLIC HERALD

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Adoration and drive-thru confessions were available at
Sacred Heart Church in Winchester March 28 where the faithful drove up, parked
and waited their turn to confess.

Portable confessionals were set up in three entranceways to
Sacred Heart Academy and Father Bjorn Lundberg, pastor of the Sacred Heart of
Jesus Church; Father Stephen Holmes, parochial vicar; and Father Stephen J.
Shultz, chaplain at St. Paul VI Catholic High School in Fairfax, administered
the sacrament.

Adoration also was available inside the main church where no
more than 10 people were allowed in at a time, or from cars in the parking lot
where a monstrance was visible from a window in the rectory facing the parking
lot.

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