Altar Servers
Youth (completion of the 3rd Grade required) and young adults who assist the priest during Mass, weddings, funerals, and other liturgical services. Altar Servers assist the celebrant and the entire worshipping community during the celebration of the liturgy of the Mass, during special liturgies, and during the celebration of sacraments. Cathedral Parish Altar Server Ministry invites any youth or young adult who is interested in serving on the altar to attend a training practice. This is an annual practice for both veteran and new servers and is required to serve in our parish.
REQUIREMENT: Altar Server Training
Cathedral Altar Society
We are a group of women and men who volunteer our time, energy, and skill with glad hearts to keep beautiful the interior of the Cathedral and care for altar linens and the vestments worn by our priests, deacons, and altar servers.
Extraordinary Ministers of the Eucharist
Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion assist the Priest with the distribution of Holy Communion; therefore, since the role is one of profound significance, ministers have the responsibility of living the Christian life in a way that is not contradictory to what they proclaim with their witness at Mass.
REQUIREMENT: EM Training and Commissioning
Homebound Ministers
Homebound Ministers make personal visits to the sick, the elderly, and the handicapped for the distribution of Holy Communion.
REQUIREMENT: Homebound Training
Lectors for Liturgy
The reader reads from the ambo the readings that precede the Gospel. In the absence of a psalmist, the reader may also proclaim the Responsorial Psalm after the First Reading. In the absence of a Deacon, the reader may announce the intentions of the Universal Prayer from the ambo. If there is no singing at the Entrance or at Communion, the reader may read the antiphons given in the Missal at an appropriate time (cf. nos. 48, 87). (GIRM, nos. 196-198) Since the role is one of profound significance, lectors have the responsibility of living the Christian life in a way that is not contradictory to what they proclaim with their witness at Mass.
REQUIREMENT: Lector Training
Adult Choir
The Adult Choir meets on Wednesday evenings for a weekly scheduled practice session. Weekly performance is at 11:00 a.m. Sunday Mass as well as annual liturgical services. REQUIREMENT: Audition with Music Director
Children’s Choir
The Children’s Choir rehearses on Sunday mornings following the 9:00 a.m. Mass for a weekly scheduled practice session (about 15 minutes) and performance is once a month at 9:00 a.m. Mass. The Children’s choir also sings for Christmas Eve, Easter, and First Communion Masses.
REQUIREMENT: Enjoy singing and can read.
Ushers
The Cathedral Ushers Society is a ministry, which primarily serves and assists the congregation during Mass and other functions held within our church facility. The responsibility of the Ushers is not just to take up the collection but also to watch over the safety, well-being, and direction of the assembly during church services. This ministry gives all our participants a great sense of satisfaction in serving the Lord in a very visible and active way. If you allow it to happen, becoming an Usher is a fantastic way to meet, greet, and serve all persons who enter God’s temple and to make them feel welcome. This ministry is open to both men and women who are 18 years of age and older.
It is the whole community, the Body of Christ united with its Head, that celebrates. "Liturgical services are not private functions but are celebrations of the Church which is 'the sacrament of unity,' namely, the holy people united and organized under the authority of the bishops. Therefore, liturgical services pertain to the whole Body of the Church. They manifest it, and have effects upon it. But they touch individual members of the Church in different ways, depending on their orders, their role in the liturgical services, and their actual participation in them."7 For this reason, "rites which are meant to be celebrated in common, with the faithful present and actively participating, should as far as possible be celebrated in that way rather than by an individual and quasi-privately."