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On Sunday it is the people who are important. The gathering itself is the most significant element of the worship environment. When we come together in our Sunday assemblies there should always be something of the warm conviviality of a family reunion. As each person arrives they need to experience the feeling of belonging, a sense that “it is good to be here.” This image of Sunday worship shows clearly the great importance of ushers. If you are called to this ministry you are:
- A man, woman, family (children are welcome with their parents) of the community
- A people person
- Can arrive early and stay after to straighten up the pews for the next liturgy
 Going Deeper:
from The Ministry of Ushers by Gregory F. Smith
The ushers of today have descended from a long line of people of God who have gone before them. Their ministry is deeply rooted in Scripture and tradition. The author of the Book of Chronicles, a book coming to us from the third century before Christ, pays particular attention to the part played by the “religious orders” of his time, not only the priests and Levites but the lesser orders of cantor and doorkeeper. These last, who may have numberd in the hundreds, loomed large in Jerusalem’s population at the time and are the progenitors of our ushers today. They comprised the guild of gatekeepers, who had as their assigned task “the guarding of the threshold of the tent, just as their fathers had guarded the entrance of the encampment of the Lord. (1 Chr 9:19).” |
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