Australia's Easter Mass held in person again

Faithful across Australia were allowed to attend Easter mass in person on Sunday, unlike last year's services which were conducted online due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Anglican Dean of Sydney Kanishka Raffel said it was a ''joy'' for worshippers to be back in church. In Sydney's St Andrew's Cathedral (Anglican), the COVID-19 pandemic was in everyone's mind including during the sermon read by Bishop of South Sydney Michael Stead.

In his sermon, Stead praised the ''power of the Easter message'' after a year of illnesses and high mortality. In Parramatta's St Patrick's Cathedral (Catholic), Reverend Vincent Long, the Bishop of Parramatta, delivered the Sunday mass.