Time & Talent
1 Corrintians 12:4-6 Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; and there are varieties of services, but the same Lord; and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who activates all of them in everyone.
Altar Server
All 4th graders and older
Become an Altar Server Altar Server carry the cross, the processional candles, hold the book for the priest celebrant, carry the incense and censer, present the bread, wine, and water to the priest during the preparation of the gifts or assist him when he receives the gifts from the people, wash the hands of the priest, assist the priest celebrant and deacon as necessary.
Click & Download all 3 Forms | Fill it up and submit your applications to contactsus@olvjc.org or drop it at the parish office
Lectors
Gospel Readers & Proclaimers of the Word
Ministry of reader
To read the word of God is an act of proclamation. What is being proclaimed? The faith itself.
Formation of Lectors
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Saturday, March 9, 2024 [8:45AM to 12:30PM]
Archdiocesan Pastoral Center
171 Clifton Avenue - Newark
Registration call the parish office
Chant Tones
It is necessary that those who exercise the ministry of reader... Be truly suited and carefully prepared, so that the faithful may develop a warm and living love for Sacred Scripture from listening to the sacred reading
Music Ministry
Praise & Rejoice | OLV Choir
The musical tradition of the universal Church is a treasure of inestimable value…as sacred song closely bound to the text, it forms a necessary or integral part of the solemn liturgy.
–Sacrosanctum Concilium, 112
Now that life is emerging, a moment of grace lies before us calling parishes to revitalize music; to return to fuller celebrations of the liturgy and fulfill the teaching of the church which requires that “Every care should be taken that singing by the ministers and the people not be absent in celebrations that occur on Sundays and Holy Days of obligation” (GIRM, 40).
Eucharistic Ministry
Extraordinary Ministers
The instruction Immensae Caritatis states that the “wonderful gift of the Eucharist…demands that such an
important mystery should be increasingly better known and its saving power more fully shared.”
Formation of Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion
[SOON]
Archdiocesan Pastoral Center
171 Clifton Avenue - Newark
Registration will be available soon.
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Ushers
Faithful servants of the Lord
Usher’s Prayer
Lord, you make all kinds of people, even people like me. In your love you gather them all into your Church. As you gather your people this day, help me to serve them in a Christ-like manner, even as your Son served those who gathered about him. Make me prayerful and patient, helpful and understanding, and may I radiate the joy that faith brings as I serve their needs. Give me your strength to support my fellow ministers. May all who assemble to celebrate our common faith in the risen Savior be glad of heart for being here and for having encountered your Son in one another, in our priest, at the tables of the Gospel and the Eucharist, and through the ministry of ushers like me.
I ask this through Christ our Lord,
Amen