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Fall 2010 Worship Team info


Worship Team includes EM's, Lectors, Ushers & Hospitality, Mass Coordinators, Altar Servers, and Music.  To join, you just need to attend one of the orientation classes, which last about 45 minutes.

For Fall 2010, classes will be offered at the following times:
  • After all Masses the weekend of Aug 28-29
  • Monday Aug 30 at 6:30pm  (includes dinner!)
  • Sunday Sept 5 at 1:00 pm

If you're interested in Music come to the Music Welcome Dinner at 6:30pm on Tues, August 30th, in the Activity Center.



What is Worship Team ?
Thousands of Aggie Catholics worship at St. Mary's each week.  As Fr.David likes to say, it's kind of like hosting a big party for a bunch of friends (and some aquaintences).

Worship Team are the many students who work with our priests and each other to make it all happen, supporting the worship & prayer life of the students of Texas A&M and Blinn College.

People come here from all kinds of backgrounds and in different stages of doubt and faith.  Visitors and curious friends might be here to see what this Catholic thing is all about.  All of them are waiting to be served, inspired, and challenged in their relationship with Christ, fellowship with others, and their inevitable wrestling match with life's biggest questions

So the Worship Team meets a huge opportunity to inspire faith, deepen prayer, elevate spirits, plant seeds, welcome strangers, and help everyone discover the compassion and beauty of life with Christ and his Church.

  • Lectors proclaim the Word of God at Mass.
  • Ushers and Greeters welcome the friend and stranger at Mass.
  • EM's (Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion) distribute Holy Communion.
  • Altar Ministers and Mass Coordinators run the show, and make sure everyone in place to fulfill their roles.
  • Sacristans keep the church beautiful, and others help by making flower arrangements or decorations.
  • If you have a musical gift, sing or play an instrument in one of the music groups.
  • You could help the community pray by composing the "Prayers of the Faithful".


All of these roles are very important !  Click around and learn a little more about the ministries, and then take a few moments to think about how you might be able to help as a part of the Worship Team.  Mark Joseph Zamora '10 is the Worship Team Director, email the leadership for more info about getting involved.




Worship Team Schedule


Scroll over a mass time to see if minisisters are needed.  Click the time to sign up for the spot (you will need to log-in).
  • if you have any trouble logging in, you can use the link to your account from a previous email from the Worship Team, it will log you in automatically).






?  What is "Liturgy"


Across twenty centuries, Catholic Christian prayer and worship has taken many shapes and forms, including things like devotionals, music, art, and especially liturgy.

Generically speaking, liturgy is the name for styles of worship and prayer that take on a particular structure or follow basic patterns each time. Often this involves the use of familiar words and music, and a unity of movements and symbols.  These actions allow the people to achieve a unified expression and deeper understanding of their faith.  The external rhythms and movements of liturgical worship bring the many people of varying spiritual maturity to the same point of community, while also providing a path for each individual to travel to different interior depths of stillness and sacred experience.

Liturgy is common to all the cultures and peoples of the world – it is ordinarily intended to be conducted with other people, not alone (the word “liturgy” comes from the Greek word leitourgia which loosely translates to mean “a public duty, a service for the public good, a work of the people.")

The Church has two official liturgies:

  • the Mass
  • the Liturgy of the Hours (also known as "daily prayer" or "the Office"... long before the tv show of the same name).
These liturgies are the corporate prayer and worship of the whole Church, together as a universal body.

This is in addition to our personal prayer and worship, which we make in an infinite number of ways and forms, songs, art, contemplation, petition, traditions, devotions and many beautiful unofficial liturgies.



Interest form:


Calendar   (Next 10 Upcoming Events)
Sun, September 5
1:00 PM
Worship Team training after all Masses - EM, Lectors, Ushes & Hospitality
Worship Team is the students who support worship at St. Mary's. The dinner tonite includes the class to be a Communion Minister, Lector, or Usher-Hospitality minister this fall (returning people should attend).

Thanks for your interest in Worship Team.  Please fill out this form and we will contact you soon with more information!

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EM (extraordinary minister of Holy Communion)
Lector
Ushers & Hospitality
Mass Coordinator
Thurifer (incense)
Flowers & Decorations
Sacristan
Worship Team Leadership
Music
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11 am Sunday
Sunday morning (either time)
5:30pm Sunday
7 pm Sunday
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