Description

The Ministry of Servers is a simple and concise, yet comprehensive guide for altar servers and their instructors. Well organized with helpful line drawings, this book will be easily understood by children who fulfill this essential ministry to God and God's people.

Chapters are: Introduction, Preparing to Serve Mass," *Postures at Mass, - *Directions for Serving Mass, - *Special Directions for Serving Funerals, - *Special Directions for Serving Weddings, - *Directions for Serving the Way of the Cross, - *Serving at Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament, - *Investiture Ceremony, - *Pope John Paul II Speaks to Altar Servers, - *When to Stand, Sit, and Kneel at Mass, - and *My Substitutes to Serve. -

Michael Kwatera, OSB, is a monk and director of liturgy for Saint John's Abbey, Collegeville, Minnesota. He taught courses in liturgy at Saint John's University in Collegeville and at the College of Saint Scholastica in Duluth, Minnesota, and served as pastor of several local Benedictine parishes. He has authored numerous articles and several Liturgical Press books, including The Liturgical Ministry of Deacons and Come to the Feast: Liturgical Ministry of, by, and for Everybody.