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. Please indicate if you will continue to serve in your liturgical role, since people over 60 or at risk from health issues may prefer not to serve at present. Please email Laurie, or call her at the parish office, 967-3796, indicating if you will continue to serve or prefer to step aside at the present time.
2. All are expected to wear a mask while at the church and to use hand sanitizer when first arriving and when leaving the building.
3. Please minimize the time in the sacristy, for the health and safety of all. 

FOR LECTORS

1. Remember to wear a mask and to use hand sanitizer.
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. Remember to wear a mask and to 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. Remind people about masks and hand sanitizer as they enter the church. (Some masks will be available, for those who do not have one.)
4. Greeters ask people to place their offerings in the box (in gathering space) or in the basket (at the gifts table).

After Mass, greeters direct people to the bulletin (not handed out, but picked up by the individual).
 
 
FOR USHERS

1. We need to avoid handshakes or physical contact with each other.
2. Ushers will help to seat people:
   1. every other pew is closed off;
   2. family or household groups may sit together; others are asked to maintain a 6-foot distance;
   3. ushers help get people seated in isolation—ends of pews, etc.
3. There will be no collection baskets passed; people will be asked to place offerings in the box or basket as they enter or exit the church.
4. There will be no procession with 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.

 
FOR COMMUNION MINISTERS

1. Remember to wear a mask and to use hand sanitizer.
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. All communion ministers are to wear masks for the distribution of communion.
5. Remember to use hand sanitizer before coming to the altar for communion. Or use the hand sanitizer at the credence table if necessary.
6. First receive the host in your hands, then remove your mask to receive the host.
7. 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.
8. People will approach in single file, with adequate distancing between themselves.
9. People are to receive the host in their hands, step aside, then remove the mask to receive the host.
10. 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.
11. When finished distributing communion, all the ministers sanitize their hands at the credence table.