Hello, happy St. Patrick's day =). So, today was like a regular Sunday mass. Last night, the altar servers (Mom: All boys!) met with the pastor and went over instructions. Kelly would be M.C, which meant He would be like making sure everything happened on cue, John, cross bearer, Jake, Me, torch-bearers, Liam, thurifer, Kiran, boat-boy (lol)/book bearer, Erik, bells. I aimed to be the first altar server to be at mass, and I succeeded. There was a deep deep deep silence. I got my alb on, and then I was tempted to light the candles until I heard Deacon Jack and the pastor come in. Then slowly and slowly the other altar servers came in. First Jake came in, and since Jake is the main charcoal lighter I stole his position while he was getting ready so he didn't smoke the whole place. So later we were all ready to go. I got Jake's candle and he said "grasias". And I said "I dunno how to speak Espaniol. I can only speak Latin. And I bet you can't" And then he started singing:
"Sanctus, sanctus, sanctus
Dominus deus sabaoth." And then:
Agnus Dei, qui tollis pecata mundi. And then:
O salutaris hostia, quae caeli pandis hostium. And then:
Tantum ergo sacramentum. Veneremur cernui. And then I told him to stop. Now, toward the middle of mass, Deacon Jack told us to get the cruets, but cruets weren't there! They were in the refrigerator! So Jake and I had to go get them. Before the procession, Jake and I went to get our torches*. Jake had already lit them before mass and dropped the match in the candle and then when we came to get them I touched the one that Jake lit, it almost fell over and I almost got wax on my wax on my hand and then there was a big splotch on the wall (Miss Paula won't like that)! And during the procession, Kiran ran out of incense, so Kelly kept giving charcoal to Liam. And I guess that's it stay tuned. *Our parish uses two types of candles.
1. A small but heavy kind of candle which is what we use every Sunday.
2. Long and tall with candles on one end. And it has a cup protecting the flame.
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