Sentences with phrase «altar servers»
"Altar servers" refers to individuals who assist the priest or minister during religious ceremonies or services. They may help with tasks such as lighting candles, holding sacred objects, or performing other duties to assist in the smooth running of the religious rituals. Full definition
Parents encourage their children to become involved in liturgical ministries as altar servers, Eucharistic ministers, lectors and cantors.
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Secondly, so much of modern liturgy has been «feminised» and the introduction of female altar servers has sometimes had the effect of putting off boys from service at the altar.
Pope Francis has told 50,00 German altar servers, young people who help the priest during religious services, who arrived to Rome on a pilgrimage that they shouldn't spend «too many hours on futile things.»
She also brought communion to the sick and housebound, a work which was very important to her, and took on the role of parish sacristan, a welcoming face for crowds of altar servers (and their younger siblings, the «pre-servers» who were allowed to help clear the sanctuary after Mass!).
I found secondary school the worst as I was and altar server from when I was 9 up until I was 18.1 really enjoyed my time as an altar server but during those 9 years I took some amount of criticism especially from friends who no longer went to Mass..
Following my time as an altar server I was asked by my parish priest to become an extraordinary minister of Holy Communion and felt honoured to be asked as I did not feel myself worthy of distributing the body and blood of our Lord at such a young age.
Every day we attended Mass in the morning morning but to make things slightly easier in terms of organisation, the girls did the offertory and the readings whereas the boys (who are trained previously) were the altar servers.
I alsoremember being slagged off when I started working a part time weekend job as I told them I couldn't work on a Sunday morning due to my commitment as an altar server.
I think, that the fact that I was an altar server for so long actually helped strengthen my faith as I was more involved in the Mass and it was a great privilege to serve God in this way.
Vast processions of the Blessed Sacrament with an altar server giving out incense and girls strewing rose petals before the monstrance carried by a priest under a canopy held by four reverent men, weekly benediction with our heads bent low; «Truly this is the Son of God» we could say since we all lived this belief.
The altar servers stand before the glowing Paschal candle, light their own candles and quickly move to the congregation to spread the light.
Tucked in with announcements about a new electronic donation system and a church dinner at Margarita's Mexican restaurant was news that Zickel, the mother of two girls, had been dreading: Corpus Christi would no longer train girls to be altar servers.