Worship choices and wellbeing of Australian churchgoing Catholics during COVID-19 church closures

Martyr, Philippa

doi:10.1080/13674676.2022.2066645

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“…The results of this study indicate that the Spiritual Welfare Scale found no significant difference in the Existential and Religious Well-being scores between groups who were still experiencing church closures and those who could return to church. These results support access to virtual and real-life worship during church closures and its positive effect on existential and religious well-being in the church-going Catholic population [9]. There was an opinion that developed during the Covid-19 pandemic many congregations who did not have the opportunity to go to church could enjoy worshipping virtually.…”

Section: Introductionsupporting

confidence: 56%

Virtual Worship and Spiritual Growth in Digital Church Era

Wijaya,

Sumigar,

Lele

et al. 2023

Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research

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These days, the church is forced to enter the digital world deeply. This caused churches to be more digitalized in their ministry, including the Sunday service we saw on social media platforms on church days. Sunday service is one of the spiritual development platforms for believers, which needs attention. This paper aims to explain virtual worship and its relation to spiritual growth, which is impacted by the ministry through the digital world, with a qualitative approach. This paper found that: 1) virtual worship significantly affects spiritual growth; 2) Virtual Worship needs development in the fellowship aspect; 3) give many advantages in virtual fellowship and develop talent in digital gift in the new generation in the digital church era.

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Section: Introductionsupporting

confidence: 56%

Virtual Worship and Spiritual Growth in Digital Church Era

Wijaya,

Sumigar,

Lele

et al. 2023

Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research

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“…Eucharistic practices have been shaped by both theological ideas and the contingencies of ecclesial life. The COVID-19 pandemic emerged suddenly in 2019, and by March 2020 churches were closed in many countries, including the United Kingdom (Corpuz & Sarmiento, 2021;Dowson, 2020;Martyr, 2022;McGowan, 2020). The Church of England went further than some other denominations by denying access to church buildings even for clergy (Anon., 2020).…”

Section: Christian Worship During the Covid-19 Pandemicmentioning

confidence: 99%

Attitude toward Virtual Communion in Relation to Church Tradition during the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United Kingdom

Village

2022

J. Empir. Theol.

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Attitude toward virtual communion was assessed among 3,300 Roman Catholic, Anglican, and Free Church clergy and laity during the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK in 2021. A six-item unidimensional scale (Scale of Attitude Toward Virtual Communion, SATVC) assessed attitude related to receiving communion during online services, the necessity of priests for consecration and lay presidency of communion at home. Church tradition predicted attitude in ways that were in line with historical understandings of the Eucharist and ecclesial debates about the necessity of priests to preside over ritual. Within traditions, other factors operated in different ways, producing a complex web of interactions. Older people were more positive about virtual communion than younger ones, but mainly in Catholic traditions. Clergy were more negative in most traditions except Free Church. Having a generally conservative doctrinal stance drove Catholic and Reformed traditions in opposite directions. Liturgical stance predicted SATVC independently of doctrinal stance, and more traditional stance tended to lead to more uniformity, rather than divergence, between traditions.

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“…Regarding the dimension of these shifts, it seems naïve to assume, without any further investigation, that the health and social benefits that seem to be related to religiousness persisted during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, there is a lack of research which examines how this relationship has developed during these special conditions: In fact, currently, there seem to be only two research works: First, a study from Australia, which compared church goers from regions where the churches were closed and thus mainly online worships were held with church goers from regions where the churches had already opened again, stated that virtual worship engagement was still related to a higher religious and existential well-being, and that there were no significant differences among this factor between the two groups investigated ( Martyr, 2022 ). Second, a report which relied on a sample of young Polish adults stated that individuals who attended worships had a larger social network compared to those who did not when they were questioned in Summer 2020, and that this larger network lead to decreased levels of loneliness among frequent worship attenders as well.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%