Over the last month, seven altar servers; two from St Marie’s and five from St Joseph’s, were formally enrolled into the Guild of St Stephen. The Guild is an International Organisation of Altar Servers founded in England in 1904.
The Guild has three aims as set out in its constitution:
- To encourage the highest standards of serving at the Church’s liturgy and so contribute to the whole community’s participation in a more fruitful worship of God.
- To provide altar servers with greater understanding of what they are doing so that they may serve with increasing reverence and prayerfulness and thereby be led to a deepening response to their vocation in life.
- To unite servers of different parishes and dioceses for their mutual support and encouragement.
Congratulations to all our altar servers who were awarded their bronze medals in recognition for their dedicated and committed service to their ministry.
