Our Sanctuary is in the center of the Nave, and the Tabernacle with the Reserved Sacrament is on a retable against a far wall. For many years our Altar Servers have retrieved the Sacrament, and the Verger, primarily high school juniors and seniors reserve it after communion. We teach them to genuflect at the tabernacle prior to opening it, and after closing it after reserving it.
In our view, there is no sound reason to restrict the retrieval and replacement of the sacrament to the ordained or any other office as long as those asked to do it have been trained to show appropriate respect and reverence for the Presence. In fact, training Acolytes to do it gives us the opportunity to teach them that reverence and the importance of the Presence of Christ’s body in the Church. In more that 20 years, not one Acolyte has failed to act appropriately – in fact it increases their interest, enthusiasm, and reverence.
Joe Sturdevant
Verger
Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd, Tomball, TX
“The modern habit of doing ceremonial things unceremoniously is no proof of humility; rather it proves the offender's inability to forget himself in the rite, and his readiness to spoil for every one else the proper pleasure of ritual.”- C.S. Lewis
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