Michael Ruszala

Guide for Altar Servers Michael Ruszala

This engaging booklet is an essential tool for any youth preparing to serve at Mass or training for the role of altar server. Key terms, liturgical guidance, and practical tips are presented in a simple and friendly tone with questions, activities, and images depicting the vestments, sacred vessels, and other key items used at Mass.

Servers continually change as older children move to other roles or serve the parish in other ways, and younger children require training. Guide for Altar Servers is a practical, complete, and cost-effective tool that introduces children to this important ministry.

Content includes:

a brief background and history of the ministrycurrent Church requirements and regulationsspiritual preparations and practical suggestionsthe basic process of serving Sunday Massdescriptions of the vestments, sacred vessels, and other key termstips for special occasions and situationspictures and puzzles that reinforce key concepts.



Servers continually change as older children move to other roles or serve the parish in other ways, and younger children require training. Guide for Altar Servers is a practical, complete, and cost-effective tool that introduces children to this important ministry.