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Does your church have greeters at Sunday Mass?
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Yes, they hand out the hymn and Mass books. Both Sunday morning Masses and Saturday nights.
 
We have ushers that greet people, open doors, answer questions, help people find places to sit, and communicate with the EMHC’s for people who can’t come to the altar to receive Holy Communion.

Lovely group of people. 👍
 
Gertabelle said:
We have ushers that greet people, open doors, answer questions, help people find places to sit, and communicate with the EMHC’s for people who can’t come to the altar to receive Holy Communion.

Lovely group of people. 👍
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Same in my Parish.
 
Yes, I appreciate my churches ushers. but they are clearly distracting you. We need to focus on God, not on whether their are ushers or not.
 
Our parish is too small. If someone is hanging around by the door we greet each other. There’s a child who likes to open the door for people. That’s about it. 😃
 
TheTrinitySaves said:
If ushers are distracting the OP from the service, he should attend a smaller church without ushers
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He never said they were distracting him. It can sometimes be fun to ask a question because one wants to know about what happens in other parishes. It isn’t practical to visit them all.
 
We have non-distracting ushers at our church. 😉 They open the door as we approach and say “good morning.” I do not find that to be distracting at all.

But we do not have people that just stand around “greeting” people. The same ushers take up the collections and usher people out of their pew for communion. On Christmas or Easter, they do hep seat people, but most of the time there is no need for that. 🙂
 
Our greeters are also Extraordinary Ministers for that particular Mass. They stay at the back of the church until met with the lectors, altar servers and the priest, and then process with them. They do not sit in the sanctuary, but in the front pew until the appropriate time.
 
marlap2 said:
Our greeters are also Extraordinary Ministers for that particular Mass. They stay at the back of the church until met with the lectors, altar servers and the priest, and then process with them. They do not sit in the sanctuary, but in the front pew until the appropriate time.
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That is actually a very nice idea! I like that.
 
I have visited just over a dozen parishes in the diocese here, only the parish I am a member of have people at the door who welcome those who enter. There was another, on one occasion that had their Guadalupanas welcoming everyone. I go to Bible study there.
 
Casilda said:
I have visited just over a dozen parishes in the diocese here, only the parish I am a member of have people at the door who welcome those who enter. There was another, on one occasion that had their Guadalupanas welcoming everyone. I go to Bible study there.
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We’re a fairly small parish. Aside from handling the collection baskets and passing out the bulletins after Liturgy, we only have ushers on holidays.
 
marlap2 said:
Our greeters are also Extraordinary Ministers for that particular Mass. They stay at the back of the church until met with the lectors, altar servers and the priest, and then process with them. They do not sit in the sanctuary, but in the front pew until the appropriate time.
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Our ushers act as “guards” during Holy Communion – making sure that people receiving in the hand consume the host in the front of the church.
 
marlap2 said:
Our greeters are also Extraordinary Ministers for that particular Mass. They stay at the back of the church until met with the lectors, altar servers and the priest, and then process with them. They do not sit in the sanctuary, but in the front pew until the appropriate time.
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There are arch/dioceses in the U.S.A. that limit the number of ministries a lay person may have at a Mass to one ministry, giving the Pastor discretion to have a person serve more ministries at a particular Mass. I am not stating that is the case in Canada,

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