Please click here for the lates guidelines for Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion as of March 2023.
Please click here for the latest instructions for Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion. 
Please click here for instructions with pictures for setting up the little table near the altar. 

Prayer for Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion:
“Loving Father, as we gather in your service, help us to fully understand the magnificence of your Son’s sacrifice for us and the wonder of your presence in the Holy Eucharist. Guide and instill in us perseverance and a willingness to do your will. Open our hearts to others as we invite them to your table to share your precious gifts. We ask this in the name of Jesus Christ, who lives with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit one God for ever and ever. Amen”

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Ministering the Word to the Church Ministers of the Word proclaim the Word of God bringing it to the members of the Church, enabling them to hear it spoken to them and assisting them to receive it with a deeper knowledge and love of the Lord. When we hear the scriptures proclaimed at Mass, we very rarely hear passages that we have not heard before. The Sunday readings are proclaimed from a three year cycle and the Weekday readings from a two year cycle. Readings at weddings and funerals and other rituals are drawn from a still more restricted lectionary. We do not need to be informed – for these are readings already familiar to us; we do need for this word to be newly ‘performed’, to become a reality in our midst, to be truly the Lord speaking to us, calling us to communion with him. Ritual language is not concerned with hearing something new. It is concerned with expressing the familiar and hearing it anew each time the ritual is celebrated. Aelred R. Rosser. A Well-Trained Tongue. Page 42