Thank you for serving as a Sacristan.
1/ UPON ARRIVAL
- Offer a prayer
- Unlock the priest vesting sacristy
- Check Ordo for details of Mass
- Check which priest is serving
- LIGHT Easter Candle (during Easter season only)
Tabernacle
- Unlock, leave key in place
- Count consecrated hosts in Tabernacle
- record lines in the ledger
Sacred Linen
Ensure all linen clean and straight at:
- Tabernacle
- Altar
- Small table next to Altar
2/ SET UP
Altar
- Missal – on bookstand (raised to the last notch)
- Place ribbons appropriately
- Corporal cloth
- Cross on altar
Ambo
- Misselette marked for today:
- Entrance Antiphon
- Communion Antiphon
- Green Lectionary – marked with Today’s Readings
- Green ribbon – lector
- Red ribbon – Gospel
- Prayers of the Faithful (in book cover = liturgical color)
Table next to Altar
- Hand sanitizer spray bottle
- Ensure it has hand sanitizer in it
- Chalice with:
- Purificator
- Paten
- With larger host
- And pall (liturgical color)
- AND extra shallow ciborium with hosts
- 2 small cruets
- with water
- and wine
- Lavabo
- with water pitcher
- Finger towel (manuterge)
- NOTE – A second special purificator for Fr. Proulx at edge of altar
Stand in front of priest’s chair
- Book of the Chair
- bookmarked
- Prayers of the faithful (book cover = liturgical color)
Credence Table
- Monstrance
- 2 battery candles
- make sure batteries working
- Bells are placed where you will kneel
3/ AFTER MORNING PRAYER
Light candles (@ 10 min before Mass)
- Tabernacle candles
- Altar candles
- Water for the priest – on his right – cold
4/ ACTIONS DURING MASS
- @ “Holy, holy, Lord God of hosts…” — move to kneel
- Make sure bells are near you:
Ring Bells at Consecration:
- #1- bread/body – RING x3
- #2 – wine/blood – RING x3
Near end of Lord’s prayer, while praying: “Lead us not into temptation…” –
- Put on facemark
- retrieve Tabernacle Ciborium
- place on the Father’s right on altar
- Spray hands with sanitizer
- stand behind priest
- Stand back and wait for priest to serve you the Body
- Receive the Body of Christ
- Serve lector, then congregation
- After you complete serving the congregation,
- Place altar cross on small table
- move Missal and bookstand off altar to Credence table
- When Priest takes consecrated hosts to tabernacle —
- Bring monstrance over to altar
- Open monstrance on right
- After Mass ends and priest leaves,
- place 2 battery candles on either side of monstrance
- Put lights on ‘Adore’ & ‘select’
5/ CLEAN UP AFTER MASS
- Clean up includes:
- Lock tabernacle – replace key in Sacristy closet
- Take all items used for Mass back to the Sacristy
- Take all books back to the Sacristy
- Take a second look at the sanctuary to ensure all has been put away
- Purify sacred vessels;
- ensure no fingerprints or lip marks;
- and place all vessels in appropriate places
- TURN OFF LIGHTS and LOCK both Sacristy doors when you leave