On August 10th at the church of St Aloysius, Caulfield Melbourne, Victoria , Australia the foundation mass of the Guild was celebrated, a solemn High mass of the martyr St Laurence. 
The Procession of the Servers and the Sacred Ministers
The Procession of the Servers and the Sacred Ministers
The servers first duty is to serve the mass, the second duty is to sing in choir if need be.
The Celebrant is incensed. St Laurence was burnt alive on a gird iron and famously said "Turn me over I think this side is done". Burning alive and still retaining a sense of Humor. A server must all ways be ready to die for the faith and take correction with good disposition.
"And God is able to make all grace abound in you" From the epistle of the Mass. Serving the holy mass is meritorious and earns a lot of graces, it is important to always keep that in mind, most of the time a careless server does not claim his grace.
"The Levite Laurence wrought a good work, who by the sign of the cross gave sight to the blind"The Alleluia verse tells use that good serving can give sight to those who do not spiritualy see the divine mystery being worked in the Mass.
"Let him follow me"
Pope John Paul II stressed many times that the servers are the vocational garden of the priesthood, a server should always seriously think about a vocation to the priesthood.
A server is the closes thing a priest ever has to a son and hopefully the son will follow in his father's footsteps. St Laurence remarked to the Pope who was on his way to being martyred
"Where doth does thou go, Father with out thy deacon"
St Laurence demonstrated the kind of a bond a server must have with his priest.
The Blessed sacrament should be source and summit of a servers life, the most important thing a server does during the week is serve the mass.
As the server leaves the sanctuary and the Church he must remember to spread Gospel to the World, to his friends, to his family and the greater public. This is the way of St Laurence.
finally a server must always have solidarity with his fellow servers, St Lawrence was one of 7 deacons, no doubt that his fellow deacons held a close bond, so must servers.
Pope John Paul II stressed many times that the servers are the vocational garden of the priesthood, a server should always seriously think about a vocation to the priesthood.
A server is the closes thing a priest ever has to a son and hopefully the son will follow in his father's footsteps. St Laurence remarked to the Pope who was on his way to being martyred"Where doth does thou go, Father with out thy deacon"
St Laurence demonstrated the kind of a bond a server must have with his priest.
The Blessed sacrament should be source and summit of a servers life, the most important thing a server does during the week is serve the mass.
As the server leaves the sanctuary and the Church he must remember to spread Gospel to the World, to his friends, to his family and the greater public. This is the way of St Laurence.
finally a server must always have solidarity with his fellow servers, St Lawrence was one of 7 deacons, no doubt that his fellow deacons held a close bond, so must servers.
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