GUIDELINES FOR PREPARATION OF GIFTS
For 4:30 pm., 9 pm. & 10:30 am. Masses
& Weekday Masses ( Tuesday, Thursday & Friday)
1. Turn on lights and PA system (including lights at the front door and balcony).
2. Turn off PA system after Mass, and lights if you are the last to leave.
3. Replace candles at Tabernacle, altar and devotional candles when needed. Please check the devotional candles on a regular basis due to the danger of them melting or causing a potential fire.
4. Refill Holy Water fonts at entrances when necessary.
5. Replace any linens if necessary, and place in dirty laundry bag in cupboard. The clean linens are in the drawer; marked accordingly.
6. Sacristans will change the color of the altar cloths (including the credence and tabernacle tables) when necessary prior to Mass and then change them back to the proper color.
7. Adjust ribbons in the Sacramental and Lectionary to the correct place if not done by the Pastor.
8. Place key in Tabernacle. (After the 4:30 pm., 10:30 am. and weekday Masses, place key in cupboard above counter top where the vessels are stored).
9. The hosts in the Tabernacle are consecrated. They are NOT to be removed at any time during the preparation nor are they to be added to. Unconsecrated hosts from the fridge are to be put out into the ciboriums in sufficient quantities to be consecrated at Mass.
10. During the week we are to put out a ciborium with host in numbers to suit the numbers attending that Mass.
11. Please place in the following order on Chalice: Chalice with Purificator (rectangle cloth with red cross) draped over it. Then the Paten (gold plate) with large host. Then the Pall (plastic covered in cloth with fancy embroidered red cross) and finally the Corporal (folded square cloth with red cross).
12. Place on credence table: extra hosts if needed, the Chalice (see above), 2 silver chalices with 1 purificator and the finger bowl and towel.
13. Place the following on the table at the entrance: a lidded ciborium, water cruet and the wine cruet or flagon filled to appropriate mark. Please ask someone from the congregation to present them to the priest when the ushers take the collection to the altar. During the weekday Masses the vessels remain on the credence table as there is no presentation except for special occasions such as Ash Wednesday.
14. The water cruet is to be left on top of the fridge during the winter at room temperature.
15. The Purification of the Vessels is the responsibility of the Sacristan.
16. The 9 am. sacristan will purify the vessels and leave the vessels on the counter in the Sacristy. The 4:30 pm. and 10:30 am. will purify the vessels, put away, and lock up.
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