Why Be a Greeter or an Usher?

• Yours is the first of Christ’s faces to greet God’s people as they assemble for prayer.
  
• Your greeting of welcome is the first wish that “The Lord be with YOU!”
  
• Yours is the word that welcomes the stranger to be at home,
  
• or the silence that makes of our assembly a foreign land.
  
• Yours is the task of discretion:
  
• knowing how to welcome, and when and where to seat the latecomer.
  
• Yours may be the last word that ushers the community to its week of work in the Lord’s vineyard.
  
• Yours is the Lord’s face and voice for those who enter and depart the holy ground of prayer.
  
• Come to your work and your post from your heart.
  
• Be as ready as the Lord to meet his people!
  

Greeters - The ability to offer a welcoming & warm greeting and a friendly smile as parishioners arrive for Mass are the attributes of a good greeter.  

Ushers - Take up the collections, choose people from the congregation to bring up the gifts, and help people find seats when the Mass is crowded.

Contact Patrice at 202.362.3323 x13 or morace@annunciationdc.org