Information for Readers, Ministers, and Cleaners During Coronavirus

READER
 
  1. Reader will sit in the front bench on the pulpit side.  Their family members (same household – no more than 6 people) can sit beside them in the pew. You must phone Christine Lewis to confirm your attendance

  2. Reader to sanitise hands both before and after reading using the sanitiser outside the rood screen.

  3. Please read from the lectern microphone situated beside the rood screen in the sanctuary.

  4. Read from sheets provided on the lectern or from your own missal.

  5. If you read from the sheets provided, please ensure you take them with you after reading and dispose of them in the bin in the sacristy as you leave church.

  6. There will be no Bidding Prayers.

HOLY COMMUNION MINISTER
 
  1. The Minister will sit in the front bench on the font side.  Their family members (same household – no more than 6 people) can sit beside them in the pew. You must phone Christine Lewis to confirm your attendance​​
  2. Please sanitise your hands at the dispenser outside the rood screen before and after distributing Holy Communion.

  1. Holy Communion will be distributed from the centre of the sanctuary step with a prie-dieu separating the Minister from the communicant.

  2. Do not hold the host up and say, ‘Body of Christ’.  Simply place the host in the communicant’s hand.

  3. Mgr Graham will not distribute Holy Communion.  If someone comes for a blessing, make the sign of the cross over them.

  4. When distribution of Holy Communion is complete the Minister places the Holy Communion bowl on the altar.
 
CLEANERS
 
  1. Please clean church after Mass when the church is empty. You must phone Christine Lewis to confirm your attendance

  2. Clean all used benches, handrails, door handles and finger plates.

  3. All used sanitising cloths, used disposable masks and PPE equipment must be placed in the porch Bin bags to be double-bagged and placed in Monsignor Graham’s dustbin near the garage.

  4. Fresh bin liner to be placed in porch bin.
 
 
 
                                                                         Thank you to you all for your patience and
                                                                         understanding during these difficult times.