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Altar Servers
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Mission Statement:
To provide boys and girls with the opportunity to learn more about their faith and to begin to build a foundation of evangelization and stewardship by serving at Mass and other liturgical functions.
Goals:
- To enhance the servers understanding of liturgy and services to the faith community.
- To give each server at least one opportunity during the three-year term to serve at various liturgical functions (e.g. funerals, Stations of the Cross, etc.).
- To encourage them to seriously consider a vocation to the priesthood or religious life.
- To instill in them a life-long desire and commitment of service to the Church and people in need.
- To assist parents in helping the boys and girls develop a sense of responsibility, dependability and accountability in commitments they make to serve.
- To enlist the aid of the parents in the instruction of their sons and daughters by reviewing with them the server booklet and the missalette and by teaching them the Mass prayers and responses.
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Altar Server Training Sessions |
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Altar Server training for current and new servers will be held at the following dates and times. The training will take approx 1.5 hours. Servers will need to attend only one training session per month.
| Date | Time | Location |
| September 11 |
9:30am |
Sanctaury |
| September 29 |
6pm |
Sanctuary |
| October 2 |
9:30am |
Sanctuary |
| October 20 |
6pm |
Sanctuary |
| November 6 |
9:30am |
Sanctuary |
| November 24 |
6pm |
Sanctuary |
| December 4 |
9:30am |
Sanctuary |
| December 22 |
6pm |
Sanctuary |
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Written by Phil Wilker
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Sunday, 29 August 2010 00:00 |
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What to be an Altar Server or know someone who is interested. We are now recruiting new Altar Servers for St. Patrick’s. Children who are in the 2th grade and up and who have received first Holy Communion are eligible. Parents who would like their children to serve at the altar may email Dave Pauls at
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or Phil Wilker at
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. Also a registration form that will be distributed during the Religious Education Program in the upcoming weeks for your consideration. |
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Written by Phil Wilker
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Friday, 27 August 2010 00:00 |
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Loving Father, creator of the universe, you call your people to worship, to be with you and one another at Mass. I thank you for having called me to assist others in their prayer to you. May I be worthy of the trust placed in me and through my example and service bring others closer to you. I ask this in the name of Jesus Christ, who is Lord forever and ever. Amen. |
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Saint John Berchmans, Patron Saint of Altar Servers |
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Written by Phil Wilker
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Tuesday, 17 August 2010 00:00 |
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The eldest son of a shoemaker, John was born at Diest, Brabant (Belgium). As a boy, he wanted to be a priest, and when thirteen became a servant in the household of one of the Cathedral canons at Malines, John Froymont. In 1615, he entered the newly founded Jesuit College at Malines, and the following year became a Jesuit novice. He was sent to Rome in 1618 to continue his studies, and was known for his diligence and piety, impressing all with his holiness and stress on perfection in little things. He died there on August 13. Many miracles were attributed to him after his death, and he was canonized in 1888. He is the patron of altar servers. His feast day is November 26. |
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Pope Benedict XVI addressing altar servers |
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"When you take part in the Liturgy by carrying out your altar service, you offer a witness to all. Your absorption, the devotion that wells up from your heart and is expressed in gestures, in song, in the responses: if you do it correctly and not absent-mindedly, then in a certain way your witness is one that moves people."
Pope Benedict XVI addressing altar servers on August 2, 2006 |
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Altar Server Program