Saint Mary’s Church on Main Street in Jewett City has done a rather unorthodox wardrobe addition to its nativity scene in front of the church’s rectory. The church has put face masks on the statues in the famous scene of Jesus being born, clearly as a nod to the current pandemic
Some in Norwich have questioned the intent, seeing that COVID cases are record-setting numbers across the United States this holiday season.
Father Ted Tumicki said the display was done by Boy Scout Troop 20 and was intended to just be a light-hearted way of acknowledging an otherwise dark time for many this upcoming winter.
“We just decided that it would be a kind of a fun little thing to do. The year going on, the way the year has been a heaviness that has set in, we just said ‘Ya know, we could just do this as a kind of a little fun thing.’”
When asked if the church was making an official statement about the pandemic. Tumicki said that was completely not true.
“We’re not making a statement,” he said. “What we’re doing is we’re kind of poking fun at the situation. Saying, In the midst of a very serious time we can still have a bit of humor about what we’re doing.
“If there’s moments we can’t laugh at ourselves and see the humor in something, then we’re far worse off.”
The church’s lighthearted views are apparent, and its decision to have the nativity bring awareness to the importance of masks and keeping one another safe this upcoming holiday season is understandable, if controversial for some.
Still, Tumicki adheres to the idea that laughter is the best medicine.
“You see creative people come up with the masks that they’re wearing,” he said. “I know a gentleman who wears one with a little mustache on it and you look at it, you do a double-take, you get a chuckle out of it, One of my hobbies is trains, so I found train fabric, my friend took the fabric and made some masks out of it, and people were like ‘Wow! That’s really cool!’ or they chuckle over it.
“It helps lighten the mood and make life a little more bearable.”
Brian Barganier lives in Salem.
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