All Saints Catholic Church will begin to share the Eucharist to people in their cars who for health and safety reasons are unable to enter the church.

The Rev. Tom Wilson shared the news that the distribution after every Mass at the church in Lakeville, Minnesota, he said in a podcast posted on Facebook.

“We will begin doing that the weekend of June 27 and June 28,” Wilson said in the podcast.

“I am very grateful that we are beginning to come back together as a community and celebrating the source and summit of our faith in the Eucharist,” the Rev. Wilson said in the podcast. “We’re going to take this time to do a few things liturgically and maybe answer a few questions that could use some clarification.”

Wilson said that every day is a learning process, from the archdiocese to the health department. The church is trying to improve procedures every week. 

“We are hoping to transition to a place where advanced signup and registration won’t be necessary,” Wilson said in the podcast, but there is not a hard date for that yet. Wilson invited congregants to keep up with social media updates issued by the church. 

The topic with the most concern for the congregation was the distribution of communion, Wilson said. 

“There are concerns about public and personal health,” Wilson said in the podcast. “We took the recommendations of public health officials: all who distribute communion are required to sanitize their hands before distributing communion and after any contact is made with someone receiving.” 

Wilson said that this is why there are sanitization stations easily accessible throughout the church.

Finally, there are new directives from the archdiocese, which allow the church to open for more than Mass.

“With social distancing being honored inside, people will be able to have small gatherings after funerals and such,” Wilson said in the podcast. 

The church cannot prepare food, but funerals may explore the option of catering food. 

“There is a real hunger for the restoration of community life and that is the next thing on the docket,” Wilson said in the podcast.