I just received notice that our old church is meeting in person for the first time in 14 months, masks required. Too bad. We joined a new church that's been open for in-person services since the original lockdown. No masks required.
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Russian Orthodox here, American who was already Russian Orthodox then moved to Russia just before the scamdemic.
There is a church in our town that miraculously stayed open throughout everything, mask free in the height of the lockdown. Needless to say that is now our home parish. The priest of the smaller parish we had been attending advised us to go there even after his parish reopened, because he had to require masks. But he had told us immediately when the news of the pandemic emerged that it was merely a provocation.
Just before all of this, in colder weather my teenage son had accidentally entered a third church with his mouth covered with winter gear and one of the old ladies scolded him, explaining that it was absolutely against ancient Church canons to cover one’s mouth in the temple! We have stuck with her advice. :-)