parish ministries

Monitors are required to ensure the Parish complies with mandated state Covid rules.

Monitor tasks:

1.  Arrive 30 minutes before Mass. Collaborate with the monitors and wardens to ensure all task are performed.
2.  Sign in with QR with your own phone, put on mask and use sanitiser.
3.  Before you start, familiarise yourself with current COVID directives. If unsure check with the parish office.
4.  Check QR codes, sanitiser, counter, spare masks, tissues, church mobile are on table (look on kitchen bench and cupboard for more supplies).
5.  Prepare the cleaning sheets for altar servers, musicians and cleaning. Follow the instructions on the monitor sheet. At the end of mass ensure all sheets are complete and put on the table in the meeting room.
6.  Open inside doors to church while outside doors stay locked. Encourage choir and altar servers to lock doors behind them when coming early to practise.
7.  When all monitors are in their place with phones at table and counter at inside door let parishioners in.
8.  Open the 2 sets of double doors so no one has to touch the door handles.
9.  Encourage signing in with QR under portico/check QR sign in. Greet and welcome each person as they arrive and offer assistance if anyone needs help.
10. Encourage using sanitiser and advise on sitting in pews with green stickers.
11. Count how many people have entered the church and if capacity is reached, set up chairs under the portico for people to sit on.
12. Check no one is sitting in pews with stickers saying DON’T SIT HERE.
13. One monitor to organise money collection (choose 4-6 collectors who have to wear gloves and mask while collecting, put money in collection boxes in foyer.
14. After mass open all doors including side doors (at 9.30am Mass) and direct parishioners out from the back pews first after last hymn finishes.
15. Discourage loitering in foyer or front of church. Parishioners who want to talk to Father should be directed to meeting room.
16. Offer bulletins to take home.
17. Make sure all sanitising and cleaning including church, foyer and toilets is done and appropriate papers are signed.

Thank you for your service
For any enquiries contact parish office 0434 705 176

MINISTRY REGULATIONS
• No children under 12 y in kitchen while serving coffee/tea
• Wear your nametag
• Keep kitchen doors closed while handling food and drinks
• Set up table in foyer/outside with biscuits and cakes, cordial/juice and plastic cups (not in front of kitchen window)
• Before opening new biscuit packs check tins and containers for open packs
• Milk (check expiry date) and sugar will be served by you with the coffee or tea! No self-serve!
• Use disposable gloves when handling food plus mask when serving.
• Use tongs for serving food
• 1 person to serve coffee and tea from the kitchen and 1 or 2 serve from the cake table
• Make sure kettle/urn is on before Mass.
• Put everything back in cupboard after use
• Cups and plates to be washed thoroughly with hot soapy water, rinsed and dried before placed on shelf
• Clean table and floor in kitchen and foyer/outside and switch off kettle/urn, remove garbage including recycle garbage
• TXT me for supplies that need refill
• If you are unable to do your roster service, please find a replacement or let Beatrix 0422 925 337 or the parish office on
0434 705 176. Thank you.
• Training will be provided
• For any enquiries contact Beatrix on 0422 925 337

Flowers are required mainly for the Altar and on the side of Our Lady Statue and St. Joseph Statue.  Additional flowers may be placed in front of the Altar or the entrance for special occasions.

Tasks:

1. Bring the previous week pots and flowers to the flower arranging room.

2. Clean the pots and throw all rotten flowers and keep the good flowers and greenery.

3. Plan the design of the two main Altar flowers so they would be nearly the same. Greenery can be found in the vicinity of the church from the palms and other trees.

4. Check the oasis sponges inside the pots and make sure they are wet enough to go for a week time. Add water to rehydrate the oasis sponge.

5. Arrange the flowers into the two main pots and place them carefully on the Altar.

6. Use remaining flowers to finish the two other pots or vases which will go on the right and left of the church at the statues of Our Lady and St Joseph. If there are no flowers available, the artificial flowers can be used.

7. Upon finishing the above, the flower arranger/s is/are to collect the leaves that fell on the altar and any other place within the church. If necessary vacuum.

8. Clean all the used tools in the flower arranging room and keep in their designated place. Should not change location of tools or artificial flowers without notifying the office.

9. Throw the old flowers and greenery in the specified green Garbage bin outside. Any plastic wrapping from the flowers can be thrown in the rubbish bin.

10.Vacuum the floor and clean the basin

Skills: Does not require previous floral arranging experience.

We recommend the arrangers to have some gardening gloves and a gardening apron (some flowers have colour that can transfer to the clothes).

Tasks:

Some tips for the Ministry Member
(The vacuum cleaners, dusters, and other cleaning goods are in the lower cupboard
in the kitchen)

1.  Start by putting up all the kneelers and pick up rubbish that the vacuums can’t collect; dust/wipe down kneelers and arm rests.
2.  Dust/wipe windowsills and clean windows and glass doors.
3.  Two people can start vacuuming on either side of church. Power points are located on the back and side walls.
4.  Clean the confessional rooms, then proceed to the seats and that way meet in the middle.
5.  Clean candle offering area and dispose of wax and used candles.
6.  Use disinfectant provided to wipe the back of all chairs.
7.  Clean out the vacuum cleaner and return to the storage area.
8.  Pack away cleaning products and dispose of cloths.

Bless you all for being faithful to this very important ministry 😊
Training will be provided
For any enquiries contact the Parish Office 0434 705 176.

You will find the vacuum cleaner in the lower kitchen cupboard. The mops and buckets are out the backdoor of the meeting room/church.

1. Sweep or vacuum foyer, kitchen and toilet area. Sweep the tiles in front of church for leaves and rubbish.
2. Clean handbasins,doors, handles, mirrors and bench with cleaners and cloths provided in the cupboard in the lady’s bathroom. Check the glass doors for fingerprints. Take away rubbish.
3. Mop all tiled areas.
4. Remove all old bulletins and rubbish that are no longer relevant.
5. Put a current roster for this week ministries on the notice board.
6. Check the water bottle and fill if necessary,make sure clean cups are available.
7. Empty the bin beside the water container. If just water cups they would go into the recycling (yellow lid) bin, if rubbish as well in garbage (red lid) bin.

(see manual for full version)

1. If you are unable to complete your ministry and you know this before the weekend: Find a replacement and call the parish office Mob 0434 705 176 to inform us of the change or inability to find a replacement. If it occurs on the weekend, please inform Sr Jill mob 0481 373 124 (if unanswered please text the info instead).
2. Readers are expected to arrive in the foyer 15 minutes before the start of Mass and check off his/her name on the board with the roster. If you are a replacement, please insert your name in a tidy fashion.  If you arrive late do not expect that you will necessarily still be reading – check with Sr Jill or Reader leader.
3. In general, but not always, the reader rostered first will welcome the Congregation with the commentary and proclaim the First Reading and the second reader will proclaim the Second Reading and lead the Prayers of the Faithful.
4. 15 min before Mass begins, both readers should check that the Lectionary is set to the readings for the day and locate the Prayers of the Faithful. Also check the microphones. Check with the choir to note if the responsorial psalm and Alleluia verses will be sung in part or in whole.  If either reader has any concerns, it is best to consult with the Reader Leader or priest as soon as possible.
5. During entry procession one reader carries the Book of the Gospels (at the sanctuary, all bow, the reader will place the Book on the altar and return to the bottom of the sanctuary.  Both readers bow and return to their seats.
6. When it is time for the readings the two readers will meet at the middle of the base of the sanctuary, bow to the altar and the first reader goes to the lectern (ambo) and the other reader will sit on an available seat on the Sanctuary.
7. The two readers may need to adjust microphones differently by moving the arm – not the actual microphone head.
8. If the Responsorial Psalm is not sung the first reader will read the Responsorial Psalm and then leave the lectern and sit down on the seat vacated by the second reader. If Psalm is sung the first reader sits after the first reading.
9. At the conclusion of the second reading, the Alleluia is intoned. As the Alleluia verse is projected it is not necessary for the reader to remain at the lectern. The readers meet and leave via the side of the sanctuary, bow to the altar and return to their seats.
10. The Prayers of the Faithful are usually led by the second reader but the whole congregation pray these prayers.  Sometimes there might be some unusual words so it is prudent to check before Mass.

Thank you for your commitment to serve God in the Ministry of the Word