Altar Servers Association

  • Altar Servers Association

  • c/o The Seminary, Tal-Virtù, Rabat

    Director

    Rev Francis Bonnici

    E-mail

    [email protected]

    Members

    Paul Dimech

    Tel

    2146 1426

    Mob

    7933 2693
    Rev Vincent Deguara

    Tel

    2169 3859

    Mob

    7969 3859

    The Altar Servers Association co-ordinates the work of the local directors by

  • 1. offering help in the formation and in the organization of the altar servers group in parishes and churches;
    2. helps in the preparation and in the organization of the investiture ceremony;
    3. organizes formation meetings for the leaders and assisrant leaders every first Saturday of each month in the Our Lady of Victories Church, Valletta at 3.00 p.m;
    4. celebrates the Feast of Saint Tarcisius, the Patron Saint and model of the maltese altar servers; this is celebrated on the last Saturday of October;
    5. organizes a meeting for the maltese altar servers the Saturday before Maundy Thursday inorder to prepare them spiritually through prayer for the Greatest Feast: Easter;
    6. organizers a football league for the altar servers in the Christmas and Easter holidays;
    7. every year organizes a course followed by an exam for those interested to offer liturgical service in St Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican, the following summer;
    8. organizes meetings for those chosen to offer service in St Peter’s Basilica, in the Vatican;
    9. takes care of those altar servers who are interested in the vocation for priesthood or religious life;
    10. on a diocesan level, provides liturgical service every Sunday at the Cathedral of Imdina and at the Co-Cathedral in Valletta.