Ministers of Hospitality: Greeters and Ushers

We, the Ministers of Hospitality (ushers and greeters) of Saints Joachim & Ann Parish believe we fulfill the goal of the Parish at each Mass by greeting and assisting in seating those who come for worship, by gathering our community Offering of the stewardship of our treasure, and by joining our Parish Family in prayer.

Ushers are needed at the following Masses:
5:00 PM Saturdays
9:30 AM Sundays

If you are interested, contact an usher at any Mass or by the information at our contact information on this page.

• Greet and welcome
• Arrange bearers of Offertory gifts
• Seating
• Place “Reserved” signs on benches for special groups
• Assist in passing the collection baskets
• Help the Communion flow
• Assist those who become ill or need aid
• Distribute bulletins
• After Mass area check
  • Lift kneelers
  • Replace song books
  • Remove trash and other items
  • Close windows and lock (after last Mass)
  • Turn out lights (after last Mass)

THE MINISTRY OF HOSPITALITY

Yours is the first of Christ’s faces
to greet God’s people as they assemble for prayer.
Your greeting of welcome is the first wish that “The Lord be with YOU!”
Yours is the word that welcomes the stranger to be at home,
or the silence that makes of our assembly a foreign land.
Yours is the task of discretion:
knowing how to welcome, and when and where to seat the latecomer.
Yours may be the last word
that ushers the community to its week of work
in the Lord’s vineyard.
Yours is the Lord’s face and voice
for those who enter and depart the holy ground of prayer.
Come to your work and your post from your heart.
Be as ready as the Lord to meet his people.
Let your welcome and your smile be for all who remember
that you will have time to see your close friends later in the week.
Seek out the lost and the confused;
do not wait for them to come to you.
When appropriate, lend a hand and an arm to the disabled,
remembering your own infirmities.
Greet each person as the Lord,
for that is precisely whom you meet.
When taking up the collection,
remember that it is for the work of God’s people.
especially among the poor; remember, too,
that many who make an offering are themselves the poor.
Remember that you stand at the temple gates.
Some will come rejoicing and others in fear;
some will come healed, and others to seek that healing.
Be sensitive, and welcome all as best you can.
Some will rush by and ignore you.
Let go of your disappointment
and pray for the Lord’s gentle touch on their heavy or hurried hearts.
Some may fall ill while at prayer.
See to their needs as you would have them see to yours.
Be slow to judge those who leave early.
Be glad that they have shared in our prayer
and recall that only the Lord knows the reasons of the heart.
When your brothers and sisters
thank and praise you for your work,
take delight in the welcome they have found,
and rejoice in the work the Lord has accomplished through you.
Be faithful in the work you do,
for through it the Lord saves his people.