Liturgical Ministers
Thank you for serving as ministers, which helps the parish to pray well and so be built up in faith.

If you are serving in any capacity, please come early enough to prepare for your ministry and sign in on the sign-up sheet in the sacristy. If you are a Eucharistic Minister, please note the duties next to your name on the sign-up sheet. All Eucharistic Ministers stay after Mass to help clean up.

If you cannot fulfill your assignment, you are responsible for finding a sub prior to Mass.  Click the Ministry Sub List for help locating a sub, or use the new Live Liturgical Ministry Schedule link.  Thank you!

FOR ALL LITURGICAL MINISTERS

1. CDC guidelines were updated July 27, 2021 regarding masking in response to the increased spread of the Delta variant. Due to the rate of transmission in Polk County being high, all Liturgical Ministers should resume wearing masks.
2. Although the requirement for masks has been lifted, all ministers, vaccinated and unvaccinated are expected to wear a mask while serving in their ministries for the sake of others. Use hand sanitizer when first arriving and when leaving the building, and as needed during the liturgy.
3. Please minimize the time in the sacristy, for the health and safety of all. 

FOR ALTAR SERVERS

1. Servers will wash their hands prior to getting ready for Mass, and use hand sanitizer as needed before, during and after Mass.
2. Servers who are not vaccinated should wear a mask.
3. Keep a six-foot distance from others not in your household, while processing, sitting in the pew or kneeling at the altar.

FOR LECTORS

1. Lectors, vaccinated and unvaccinated, should wear a mask and should use hand sanitizer prior to going up to the ambo.
2. Lectors can remove their mask when they reach the ambo.
3. Lectors will also fill the roles of the commentator: one lector will give the announcements before Mass, the other will lead the intercessions.
4. Lectors may wish to have a hand wipe with them, for use with the notebook and for use when they are finished with the Lectionary.

 
FOR GREETERS

1. Greeters, vaccinated and unvaccinated, should wear a mask and use hand sanitizer.
2. We need to avoid handshakes or physical contact with each other. So greet people and welcome in strangers, but with distancing.
3. Masks are strongly encouraged for both the vaccinated and unvaccinated. Remind people about masks and hand sanitizer as they enter the church. (Some masks will be available, for those who do not have one.

 
FOR USHERS

1. We need to avoid handshakes or physical contact with each other.
2. Ushers will help to seat people:
   1. Family or household groups may sit together; others are asked to try to maintain a 6-foot distance;
   2. Ushers help get people seated with physical distancing, encouraging households to move to the middle of the pew to allow for more seating on the ends of the pew.
3. We resume passing the collection baskets the weekend of June 5-6.
4. The procession with gifts will resume the weekend of June 5-6. Since there is still no commentator, ushers will find a family to bring up the gifts. During this season of sacrament celebation, those families will bring up the gifts.
5. Ushers will help direct people into a single-file procession for communion.
   People will process up the side aisles, as usual, but are to maintain 6 feet distance from the next person. Ushers can alternate: one pew from one side of the aisle, then one pew from the other side.
6. Ushers help people exit the pews, maintaining 6 feet distance.
7. Effective the weekend of June 5-6, ushers can resume handing out bulletins to individuals. Use hand sanitizer prior to handing out bulletins.

 
FOR EXRAORDINARY MINISTERS OF HOLY COMMUNION

1. Communion ministeres both vaccinated and unvaccinated should wear a mask.
2. Remember to wash your hands before coming to the church and use hand sanitizer as you enter the church.
3. Fewer communion ministers will be needed, since communion from the Cup is suspended at present. For now, there will only be four ministers of the Bread—the priest and three others.
4. Remember to use hand sanitizer before coming to the altar for communion. Or use the hand sanitizer at the credence table if necessary.
5. First receive the host in your hands, then remove your mask to receive the host.
6. The priest and other ministers will go to the usual places, two at the top of the side aisles. Remain a greater distance from each other than in the past.
7. People will approach in single file, with adequate distancing between themselves.
8. People are to receive the host in their hands, step aside, then remove the mask to receive the host.
9. If anyone wants to receive communion on the tongue, kindly notify them that they must be last in line. Then that communion minister is to then sanitize their hands.
10. When finished distributing communion, all the ministers sanitize their hands at the credence table.