Traveling Chalice and Priest Reassignments

This was supposed to be published on 6/17/12...... but I couldn't use the computer .__. O.K! To business here, I was serving with Ezra, Kelly and her sister, Annie, who was "making her debut". I got there first cause I wanted to be Cross1 so I could hand the chalice to The Pastor, who was celebrating that day. O.K. I know what you are thinking, yes! "Hand the chalice to the The Pastor?" The candle bearers do that. Explanation: Traveling Chalice. Our parish started a pray for vocations program. From the book: "The purpose of the Traveling Chalice is to encourage families to pray for and to promote vocations within their own family." Here's a picture I took of the chalice




It use to be a mass chalice.



The chalice reminds us to pray for priests.  The cord around it reminds us to pray for religious.  The three knots represent the three evangelical counsels - chastity, poverty and obedience - vowed by religious.



Our altar at home.

 O.K Back to the sacristy tale. Kelly and Annie came in while I was lighting the candles, then Ezra. I was really scared when Ezra came in, because we always fight over who gets to be Cross1. So when he came in I said, "you're Cross2,". "O.K" he said. Wow! At the end of mass, my family received the chalice. My plan worked perfectly. My plan was to take the chalice off the table and walk down to the steps with The Pastor. I handed the chalice to The Pastor and stepped down, received the chalice with my family, and when The Pastor dismissed us, I walked back to the altar. At the end of mass, The Pastor said the announcements and the whole congregation got a surprise........ THE PASTOR IS BEING REASSIGNED!!!!! Habemus non pastorem (we have no pastor)! Wait, someone new is coming! Habemus Pastorem (we have a pastor)! Our new pastor's name is Fr. Michael, aaaaaand Fr. Raymond is staying as our new associate pastor =)! I hope Fr. Michael won't mind the week day altar server (Moi). Stay tuned.