{"id":97,"date":"2014-11-02T23:57:20","date_gmt":"2014-11-02T23:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stchrismi.org\/wp\/?page_id=97"},"modified":"2025-02-05T11:58:19","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T16:58:19","slug":"altar-servers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.stchrismi.org\/home\/altar-servers\/","title":{"rendered":"Altar Servers"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"97\" class=\"elementor elementor-97\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c051ba1 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"c051ba1\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b61a683 elementor-widget-divider--view-line elementor-widget elementor-widget-divider\" data-id=\"b61a683\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"divider.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-divider\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-divider-separator\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f330057 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"f330057\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-755b82d elementor-headline--style-highlight elementor-widget elementor-widget-animated-headline\" data-id=\"755b82d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;marker&quot;:&quot;underline&quot;,&quot;highlighted_text&quot;:&quot;Altar Server&quot;,&quot;headline_style&quot;:&quot;highlight&quot;,&quot;loop&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;,&quot;highlight_animation_duration&quot;:1200,&quot;highlight_iteration_delay&quot;:8000}\" data-widget_type=\"animated-headline.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-headline\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-headline-plain-text elementor-headline-text-wrapper\">Become an<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-headline-dynamic-wrapper elementor-headline-text-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-headline-dynamic-text elementor-headline-text-active\">Altar Server<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7535f3c2 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"7535f3c2\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4499dfe6 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"4499dfe6\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"text-align: var(--text-align); color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-primary-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-primary-font-size ); font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-primary-font-weight );\">\u00a0 \u00a0St. Christopher Catholic Church offers Catholics an opportunity to grow in their faith and become more active in the Mass by serving as Altar Servers. Altar Servers are people who assist the priest during Mass.<\/span><\/p><p>\u00a0You can server as an Altar Servers (boys and girls) after completing your first communion and being trained and continue to server no matter what your age.\u00a0 We have Altar Servers as young as 9 and as old as 99! If you think you&#8217;d like to serve, please contact the parish office.<\/p><p>\u00a0While assisting at the Masses and other liturgical celebrations, it is important that servers be active participants in the liturgy and that they listen, sing, and pray with the entire assembly.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d20d485 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"d20d485\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d077ca4 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"d077ca4\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-883e5a8 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"883e5a8\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<pre><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><span lang=\"en-US\">ALTAR SERVER\u2019S PRAYER BEFORE MASS<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/pre><p><span lang=\"en-US\">\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">Open my mouth O\u2019 Lord to bless thy Holy Name.<\/span><\/p><p><span lang=\"en-US\">\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">Cleanse my heart from all evil and distracting thoughts.<\/span><\/p><p><span lang=\"en-US\">\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">Enlighten my understanding, enflame my will that I may serve worthily at thy Holy Altar.<\/span><\/p><p><span lang=\"en-US\">\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">O\u2019 Mary, Mother of Christ the High Priest,\u00a0 obtain for me the most important grace of knowing my vocation in life.<\/span><\/p><p><span lang=\"en-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span lang=\"en-US\">Grant me a true spirit of faith and humble\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p><p><span lang=\"en-US\">obedience, so that I may ever behold the priest as a representative of God, and willingly follow him in the Way, the Truth and the Life of Christ.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p><p><span lang=\"en-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span lang=\"en-US\">Amen.<\/span><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d95b73b e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"d95b73b\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-bbec487 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"bbec487\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"680\" height=\"510\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stchrismi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_9189-1024x768.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-7777\" 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Altar Servers are people who assist the priest during Mass. \u00a0You can server as an Altar Servers (boys and girls) after completing your first communion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-97","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"meta_box":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stchrismi.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/97","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stchrismi.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stchrismi.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stchrismi.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stchrismi.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stchrismi.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/97\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stchrismi.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}