Altar Servers
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COVID 19 Changes:
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Servers under the age of 18 must get formal approval from their parents submitted to me before serving. An email from parents will suffice.
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You must wear a mask for the whole of the mass. This mask needs to be appropriately designed to wear during mass (plain black or white would be best).
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You will sanitize your hands upon entering the church and right before the procession.
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Cassocks and surplices have been moved into the library to give better spacing for servers to vest.
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There is no book-bearer as the priest has a lectern for the prayers.
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The offertory gift will be on the credence table before mass, and all need to be brought to the altar when the altar is being prepared.
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St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church offers young Catholics an opportunity to grow in their faith and become more active in the Mass by serving as Altar Servers. Altar Servers are young people who assist the priest and deacon during Mass.
While assisting at the weekend Masses and other liturgical celebrations, it is important that servers be active participants in the liturgy and that they listen, sing, and pray with the entire assembly. Boys and girls who have received their first communion and are in the 4th grade are invited to become Altar Servers.Altar Server Formation is on-going.
May God Bless you for your past and continued service at Mass!
If you have any questions, you may contact our Liturgy Coordinator. Thank you!
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Manus Dei (Hands of God)
In order to promote vocations to the priesthood, we have established a senior altar server program. The participants are being trained in advanced altar serving skills such as incense preparation, processions, benediction and serving for longer and more complex liturgies, including those with the Bishop. Learn more
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Resources:
It is a great honor and privilege to serve at the Altar of our God as Pope John Paul II's indicated in his inspiring address to altar servers on August 1, 2001. In that address the Pope encourages altar servers to understand the responsibility they have in this service to the Church. He said, “The altar server has a privileged place in liturgical celebrations. Those who serve at Mass present themselves to a community. They experience from close at hand that Jesus Christ is present and active in every liturgy . . . In the liturgy you are far more than mere “helpers of the parish priest”. Above all, you are servants of Jesus Christ, the eternal High Priest.”
1. Sophia SketchPad: The Eucharist (Video 6:38)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcB7Uem00n4
2. Prayer Hands: Be a Better Altar Server (11:39)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKEk3sNc-hw
3. That Catholic Show #001: Sit, Stand, and Kneel (5:08)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMy1Ko_AEME
4. Do You Know When to Kneel During the Mass? (5:24)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vMpI1sXkCI