Welcome!

Glad you could stop by! Please take a look through the procedures, and feel free to leave me feedback or comments of any kind. The procedures are separated into three categories: Sunday Masses, Weekday Masses, and Special Occasions. The procedures for Sunday Masses also apply to celebrations in the Church that are given the rank of "Solemnity."

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Table of Contents

1. Sunday or Holy Day Masses
2. Weekday Masses
3. Special Procedures

General Information

• Dress Code
  • Wear dark pants, dark, clean shoes, and a comfortable shirt
  • No visible jewelry is to be worn.
  • Groom your hair nicely before you arrive.
• Please bring tissues!
• Please use the restroom and wash your hands, before Mass starts!
• If there is a more experienced server present, please defer to him.
• Sometimes a new server will attend the Mass, and an older server may be training him - it is then the job of the other servers to set an example and make sure things get done.
• Certain duties, such as incense and charcoal, the microphone, and preparing the vessels for the Mass, are reserved for older, more experienced servers. These are important duties, so if you are told not to carry out these duties, understand that they are important and that when you are ready, you will be allowed to assist in these additional ways.
• Conduct
  • The servers should be as composed as possible, at prayer, and focused on the Sacred Liturgy and their duties.
  • Whenever moving about the church, servers should have hands folded, or if working with one hand, have the other over their heart; they should never run or cut people off while walking.
  • Whenever servers are walking or performing any duties together, they should work in sync, reverently. Additionally, servers should leave several feet of space between themselves and the servers walking in front of each other.
  • Whenever many servers are working together, they should do so in a symmetrical formation. The most critical time for this is in procession.
• Preparation
  • Plan to arrive in time to get dressed 10 minutes before Mass is scheduled to start.
  • At any one time, the oldest or most experienced server is in charge.
  • Once dressed, servers should wait outside the sacristy so that they are not in the way. The priests have asked that the servers help to maintain a prayerful, recollected atmosphere before the celebration of Holy Mass.
  • Do not touch the microphone, incense, or charcoal.