Staff producing archdiocese’s online Masses say it's an important ministry during COVID-19

Michael May records daily Mass taped in St. James Chapel on March 17, 2020 at the Archbishop Quigley Center. (Karen Callaway/Chicago Catholic)

Brian Brach works the boards during a recording of Sunday Mass at Holy Name Cathedral to be played online during the COVID-19 pandemic as churches are closed. (Karen Callaway/Chicago Catholic)

Jim Disch, director of the Office of Radio and Television, goes over scripts with BVM Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt and Cardinal Cupich before recording a series of tapings and radio spots to promote tax credit scholarships for Catholic school families at Frances Xavier Warde School on April 24, 2018. (Karen Callaway/Chicago Catholic)

Brian Brach records Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt and Cardinal Cupich during a series of tapings and radio spots to promote tax credit scholarships for Catholic school families at Frances Xavier Warde School on April 24, 2018. (Karen Callaway/Chicago Catholic)

Javier Garcia stands behind the camera while awaiting the arrival of torchbearers in frigid temperatures at the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Des Plaines on the eve of her feast Day Dec. 11, 2019. (Karen Callaway/Chicago Catholic)

Javier Garcia and Michael May shoot from the roof as parishes in Chicago's Brighton Park neighborhood hold their annual Via Crucis on Good Friday March 30, 2018. (Karen Callaway/Chicago Catholic)

Brian Brach holds a card up for a light balance check as parishes in Chicago's Brighton Park neighborhood hold their annual Via Crucis on Good Friday March 30, 2018. (Karen Callaway/Chicago Catholic)

Michael May films the annual Sunrise Prayer Service and Mass at Oakwood/41st Street Beach, 4100 S. Lake Shore Drive, on Aug. 23, 2018. (Karen Callaway/Chicago Catholic)

Brian Brach tapes a radio show in the archdiocesan studio at the Archbishop Quigley Pastoral Center on Feb. 26, 2018. (Karen Callaway/Chicago Catholic)

Michael May sets up his equipment prior to an inaugural Mass for the St. Joseph Chapel at the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Des Plaines on April 21,2018. (Karen Callaway/Chicago Catholic)

Brian Bach (camera) and Jim Disch interview Franciscan Father Bob Lombardo on Jan. 15, 2009 following a blessing and dedication of the Kelly Hall YMCA, a youth outreach and neighborhood center housed in the former Our Lady of the Angels parish center at 824 N. Hamlin. (Karen Callaway/Chicago Catholic)

The staff of the Office of Radio and Television set up press conferences for news media at the Archbishop Quigley Pastoral Center. Archbishop Cupich held this press conference Sept. 14, 2015 on Pope Francis' changes to the annulment process, the forgiveness of the sin of abortion during the Year of Mercy and the upcoming papal visit to the United States. (Karen Callaway/Chicago Catholic)

Jim Disch works with Brian Brach during a rally praying for a peaceful summer for school children and their families at 63rd Street Beach, 6300 South Lake Shore Drive, on June 7, 2011. (Karen Callaway/Chicago Catholic)

Michael May, far left corner, films Cardinal Francis George, Auxiliary Bishops Francis Kane and Joseph Perry, along with Bishop Thomas Paprocki of Springfield and Bishop John Gaydos of Jefferson City, Missouri, as they made a pilgrimage on April 6, 7, 2011 to sites in Quincy, Illinois and Brush Creek, Missouri associated with the life of Father Augustus Tolton, the first American diocesan priest of African descent. (Karen Callaway/Chicago Catholic)

Brian Brach is perched on top of a confessional to video the annual Golden Wedding Anniversary Mass held Holy Name Cathedral on Sep. 14, 2014. (Karen Callaway/Chicago Catholic)