Pupils’ Participation in Online Eucharistic Celebration During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Abstract

Covid-19 Pandemic has brought a lot of restrictions, especially on physical gatherings. Despite this crisis, St. Paul University Surigao continues to aid the spiritual nourishment of the students. SPUS has made use of different social media platforms to continue the spiritual well-being of the students by live-streaming the Eucharistic Celebration. Thus, this study aims to understand the spiritual well-being of the students of St. Paul University and how online Eucharistic Celebration helps their spiritual well-being during the COVID-19 Pandemic. The Spiritual Health and Life-Orientation Measure (SHALOM) shows whether there is harmony or dissonance in the ideal spiritual well-being and the lived experience of the participants where each person becomes the standard by which they are being measured, rather than being compared to other groups. Results have shown that there was no significant difference between the ideals and lived experiences of the pupils in terms of their spiritual well-being. The online Eucharistic Celebration highly helped the students in their spiritual with a very high level of harmony. Thus, the online Mass helped them cope with their spiritual well-being despite the situation brought on by the Pandemic.