Zoom!

The video conference room worked last night with the four novitiates. Downloading and setting the parameters of the “Zoom” app was a little time-consuming Sunday evening. I thought this was going to be an easy app to download and put into play, but it wasn’t as friendly as I had hoped. I even had my husband on the job! The goal was to connect with the neighbors.

So, basically, if you don’t pay for the privilege of Zoom, you get 30 free minutes to chat together. (I wasn’t paying for any more privilege.) However, they fail to inform you that the first 20 minutes will quite possibly be spent on getting the whole thing up and running with your participants. (Not pointing fingers at any family members!) I have to play with the settings again as I screwed up a few things with our first tele-conference.

However before our first Zoom meeting, my sister and I were chatting with my mother on the old fashioned telephone. She informed us that she was able to live-stream her Saturday 5 pm Mass, as well as print out the church bulletin this past weekend. She rather enjoyed the ease of that. I asked how she watched Mass, and if she knew what program they used.

“Oh, we used Zoom.”