Arrival for Mass
Every Altar Server should perform these tasks when scheduled to serve at Mass.
• Servers must arrive 15 minutes early for every Mass they are scheduled to serve at.
• Quietly put on your alb and cincture in space designated for the Altar Servers to dress in.
• At ten minutes to Mass time light one alter candle in the sanctuary if all scheduled Altar Servers are not yet present. This will be a sign to anyone in the main body of the church to come forward and volunteer to replace the missing server(s).
Preparation for Mass:
Wine & water:
• Rinse wine and wine cruets with clean water and allow to drip dry for a few seconds.
• Fill the wine cruet with the wine bottle. Depending on parish needs more than one wine cruet may be required. The priest or deacon can inform you about any unusual needs.
• Fill the other cruet with cold fresh water from the cooler, tap or bottled water container.
• Place wine and water cruets on the offertory gift table in the designated spot near the front entrance of the church or where ever designated by the priest.
Paten:
• Remove the gold paten from where it is stored.
• Arrange about 25 small unconsecrated hosts and one large unconsecrated host neatly on the gold paten.
• Place gold paten and unconsecrated hosts on the offertory gift table with the wine and water cruets.
• The priest or deacon will tell you if further ciborium and hosts will be required for the Mass. If they are place them on the Credence Table in the Sanctuary.
Chalice:
• Get a clean Purificator from the Purificator drawer of the Preparation Table in the sacristy.
• Open the first fold and drape it over the Chalice so the cross on the Purificator is in the center of the Chalice and aligned with the cross at the base of the Chalice.
• Remove the linen covered plastic Pall from the drawer and place it on the chalice over the Purificator.
• Check the small book on the preparation table for the proper vestment color or ask the priest or deacon.
• Get the proper color Chalice Veil and Burse from the drawer in the preparation table.
• Cover the Chalice with the Veil.
• Make sure there is a Corporal in the Burse. If there is none then get one form the Purificator drawer and place it into the Burse.
• Place the Burse, containing the Corporal, on the top of the Chalice.
• Place the prepared Chalice on the Credence Table in the Sanctuary.
• Arrange the Chalice on the Credence Table so the Chalice Veil is neat and square with the table. The veil should hide the Chalice from the view of the people.
Bowl, plate and towel:
• Remove the washing bowl from its storage spot and clean it if required.
• Get a clean, fresh towel from the towel drawer in the preparation table. Place the bowl, and towel on the Credence Table.
Candles:
• At ten minutes to mass time light one candle (the one near the sacramentary) if all Altar Servers are not present. If all scheduled servers are present or some servers attending the Mass volunteer to replace the late scheduled servers, light all the candles.
• After lighting the candles, extinguish the lighter. When using a taper candle lighter the taper is to be extinguished by pulling the taper into the lighter for a few seconds. After the taper is out, immediately push the taper back out of the lighter body to keep it from sticking inside the lighter.
Note: If the taper is stuck when you go to use the lighter, the taper can be freed by heating the lighter tip with matches until the wax holding the taper melts. Be careful when working with wax and flames.
General Instructions:
• Get the sacramentary for the opening prayer from it place in the sanctuary.
• Check with the priest or deacon to make sure that the place marker is in the pages for the day's Mass.
• Return the sacramentary to the its storage location in the Sanctuary for use at the opening and closing prayers of the Mass.
• Ask the priest or your parents how many collections there will be and then tell the other servers.
• Server Number One, The Cross Bearer, is the group leader and should check to see that all the preparations have been properly carried out by the other servers.
• At five minutes to Mass time, Server Number One should lead the group in the Altar Servers' Prayer.
• A four minutes to Mass time light the altar and tabernacle candles for Mass.
• At three minutes to Mass time move to the front doors to wait for the ushers to prepare for the procession.
Saturday, February 6, 2010
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