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Worship Committee
These members oversee all regular sub-committees. This group helps to set goals,
direction,
and standards that are liturgically corrected. They assist in training for
various liturgical roles.
Alter
Servers
Alter Servers assist the celebrant at Eucharistic services, funerals, and other
liturgical events.
Banners
and Decorations
This committee properly decorates the church for the appropriate season or
feast, by using banners,
plants, flowers, symbolic arrangements, etc.
Eucharistic Ministers
Assists the priests and deacons in distributing the Body and Blood of Christ to
their community sisters
and brothers. Ministers select weekend mass times and are scheduled throughout
the year.
Family
Bible Study
This group provides teaching and training of God's word through reading and
reflecting on scripture,
with youth, parents, grandparents, and friends of St. Rita's Parish. This group
meets on Sunday from
9:45 to 10:45 am, to prepare us for the mass and our daily lives.
Greeters
These ministers gather at the church doors about fifteen minutes before mass and
welcome people coming
to the service.
Lectors
Through this ministry, the proclamation of the "Good News" is continued in our
community. By proclaiming the Lord present in His Word, he/she gives meaning to
the readings so parishioners will hear and understand the message, which applies
to daily life.
May
Procession
This group honors Our Blessed Mother in May. All youth and guests are invited to
join in procession. The different duties of this group are greeters, distributor
of programs and free rosaries. Blue Army will bring the Statue of Our Mother.
Minister
to the Sick
These ministers of the Eucharist take the Blessed Sacrament to those unable to
attend Mass with the community. This allows the sick in nursing homes and
homebound to become one with the community of believers.
Musician
or Choir
Members of the St. Rita Music Ministry provide the leadership for musical prayer
in our liturgies. They lead the congregation in song, inviting the full
participation of all.
Nursing
Home Ministry
This group meets at the Regency Heath Care Center on the 1st and 3rd Thursday of
each month. Their primary duty will be to help get the residents to and from the
10:00 am Mass celebrated at the center.
Prayer
Tree
Members of this group are contacted by phone and asked to pray for various
causes. Anyone is welcome to participate in this ministry. No prayer request is
ever denied.
Ushers
This group of men and women are responsible for greeting and seating
parishioners and guests, taking up collections, passing out bulletins and other
related materials, straightening up after each Mass by returning song books and
missalettes to holders and placing kneelers in an upright position. |
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