The impact of Covid-19 on the understanding and perceiving of the Eucharist in the Indonesian Catholic church

Covid-19 has changed the order of people’s lives in society all over the world, this also includes the Catholic Church’s order of living. One of the effects that Catholics feel, be that those living in cities or the outskirts is the initiating of online Eucharist masses. As experienced by the Catholic Church all over the world, the Catholic Church in Indonesia experiences inevitable adaptations in regard to applying both online and offline masses. This article is a result of research regarding the understanding and perceiving of the Catholics towards online and
offline masses during the times of the Covid-19 pandemic in one of the provinces in the Republic of Indonesia, which includes both urban and rural areas. This research utilizes a mixed method namely quantitative and qualitative through theological, and liturgical approaches. The result of the research shows that generally Catholics still comprehend and perceive offline Masses as something important, but several people are beginning to get used to online Masses which causes inclinations towards perceiving both online and offline Masses as two sides of the same coin.